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Payment Terms DA ( Documents against Acceptance) and CAD ( Cash against Documents) through Bank are the same or different?

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Question added by Shiraz Thayyal , Purchaser , Grand Marketing Trading & Contracting
Date Posted: 2015/09/10
IMRAN ALI MOHAMMED
by IMRAN ALI MOHAMMED , Accounts Officer , M/s. Euro Glazing Ltd

No, they are not same the difference between DA and CAD is explained below :

 

D/A – (Documents against Acceptance)

 

The export documents and a time/usance bill of exchange are sent to a remitting bank. The documents are then sent to a collecting bank with instructions to release the documents against a buyer's acceptance of the bill of exchange

 

CAD (Cash Against Documents)

 

This process lacks the security and legal protection of a documentary collection since the exports documents are sent through a remitting bank to a collection bank without a bill of exchange. It is, however, still a collection through the banking system.

Duncan Kpan Lebrim
by Duncan Kpan Lebrim , Senior Accounts Officer , Zoomlion Ghana Limited

The are different in the sense that payment terms documents could be a long term agreements or contracts whiles cash against documents through bank is more of liquidity in nature.

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