Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
CA commandé
English translation:
running total of received orders, sent invoices
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Jul 24, 2013 16:39
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French term
United Kingdom
CA commandé
French to English
Bus/Financial
IT (Information Technology)
ERP software solution for waste and recycling management.
This comes from an ERP solution company's brochure, marketing its solutions for waste and recycling management. The various paragraphs describe the positive features of this software. For example, the previous paragraph markets the solution's effective management of itineraries and routes for waste collection vehicles.
This paragraph goes as follows:
Extranet Clients
Site extranet permettant à vos clients de :
S’authentifier sur un site extranet
Saisir une commande de prestations de service, soit directement, soit à partir de contrats de service
Suivre l’avancement de sa commande
Obtenir des documents au format pdf :
BSD, confirmation de commande, facture, registre
Quelques statistiques : quantité de déchets enlevée, ***CA commandé***, facturé
So, the ERP company offers its client (Eg. a waste management company) the use of an extranet site for its customers. As you can see, the customers can log on and can track their orders etc.
However, what does "CA commandé" mean? The acronym could mean a number of things. For the time being, I have settled on "Chiffre d'affaires commandé" in terms of "annual order figure", by taking the "commandé" to mean "of orders" - but I am not happy with this: is there such a thing as a turnover of orders?! It seems a bit tenuous and complicated.
Also, The "facturé" following this phrase might well agree with the "CA", so the CA is in the masculine...
Can anybody help, please?
This paragraph goes as follows:
Extranet Clients
Site extranet permettant à vos clients de :
S’authentifier sur un site extranet
Saisir une commande de prestations de service, soit directement, soit à partir de contrats de service
Suivre l’avancement de sa commande
Obtenir des documents au format pdf :
BSD, confirmation de commande, facture, registre
Quelques statistiques : quantité de déchets enlevée, ***CA commandé***, facturé
So, the ERP company offers its client (Eg. a waste management company) the use of an extranet site for its customers. As you can see, the customers can log on and can track their orders etc.
However, what does "CA commandé" mean? The acronym could mean a number of things. For the time being, I have settled on "Chiffre d'affaires commandé" in terms of "annual order figure", by taking the "commandé" to mean "of orders" - but I am not happy with this: is there such a thing as a turnover of orders?! It seems a bit tenuous and complicated.
Also, The "facturé" following this phrase might well agree with the "CA", so the CA is in the masculine...
Can anybody help, please?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | running total of received orders, sent invoices |
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Proposed translations
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French term (edited):
CA commandé, facturé
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running total of received orders, sent invoices
if it's from the viewpoint of the service provider (the company collecting wastes) or possibly:
"running total of sent orders, received invoices"
from the viewpoint of the company paying for the services - not very clear which one it is.
CA Chiffre d'affaires, commandé / facturé
Here "chiffre d'affaires" should be understood for what it basically is: the monetary expression of the volume of activity of a business; starting from some cut-off point in time, these two figures show the running total of received orders and sent invoices - it's only at the end of the accounting period that the "chiffre d'affaires facturé" will show what is the CA for the purpose of the annual accounts.
"running total of sent orders, received invoices"
from the viewpoint of the company paying for the services - not very clear which one it is.
CA Chiffre d'affaires, commandé / facturé
Here "chiffre d'affaires" should be understood for what it basically is: the monetary expression of the volume of activity of a business; starting from some cut-off point in time, these two figures show the running total of received orders and sent invoices - it's only at the end of the accounting period that the "chiffre d'affaires facturé" will show what is the CA for the purpose of the annual accounts.
Note from asker:
| It is from the point of view of the service provider (waste collection company). This sounds most appropriate to me - thank you for your clarity. |
Peer comment(s):
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rkillings
: Well, total of the *value(s)* of, rather than the numbers of. (Orders and invoices are both count nouns.)
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strictly speaking you're right, but it's implied that dollars/pounds/euros etc. are counted, not the number of pieces of paper; no one in the field would assume that.
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