Navigating to Commercial Paper
Click on Commercial Paper (CP) within the Liability category in the side panel. This will open up the blotter for Commercial Papers.
Creating a Commercial Paper
Click on the bottom side menu and click on the new Commercial Paper button --> 
This will open a screen to add a new Commercial Paper. Please note that this screen allows the user to define a tranche of the issue for a specific issue date and maturity date.
The following are the list of fields:
| Field Name | Type of field | Description |
| Status | Non editable | Issued - New CP tranche issue Closed - CP closure |
| External ID | User defined (Text) | Reference ID for the CP |
| ISIN | User defined (Text) | International Securities Identification Number - .Unique ID No. assigned by the Depository to a CP issued by an entity with a specific Maturity Date. Must contain 2 characters from A to Z; followed by 9 characters from 0 to 9 or A to Z; followed by one digit from 0 to 9. |
| Entity | Dropdown | Legal entity of the user's organisation that is issuing the CP tranche |
| Counterparty | Dropdown | Issuing paying agent (IPA) or Registrar & Transfer Agent (RTA) |
| Bank Account | Dropdown | Bank account for the counterparty to be set up in the Masters |
| Deal date | Date | Date on which issuer opens the CP for subscription |
| Value date | Date | Date of issue of CP when the consideration/ funds are recd. from Investor into the CP |
| Maturity date | Date | Date of maturity/ redemption of CP when the total Face Value for the ISIN under which the CP is issued, is due to be remitted by the Issuer into the CP Account of Issuer maintained with the Issuing & Paying Agent (IPA) and thereon by the IPA to the credit of various holder(s) of the ISIN on such date |
| Tenure | Calculated | Difference in days between Maturity date - Deal date |
| Total no. of units | Numeric | Total units issued as part of the tranche |
| Face value per unit | Numeric | Face value per unit is INR 500,000 per unit |
| Total face value | Calculated | Total no. of units x Face value per unit |
| Investment amount | Numeric | Total value invested at discount vis a vis the Total face value |
| Discount | Calculated | Total face value - Investment amount |
| Discount rate | Calculated | Discount rate on investment offered to investor in the tranche |
| Discount per day | Calculated | Discount divided by number of days till maturity date from issue date |
| Price per hundred | Calculated | Investment per unit divided by Face value per unit |
| Stamp duty | Numeric | as per field name |
| Security trustee | Text | as per field name |
| Additional info | Text | as per field name |