What is the Small Business Trade Credit Payment Dataset?

Quick answer

The Small Business Trade Credit Payment Dataset, or SBTCP Dataset, contains the reportable trade credit payments made to suppliers identified as small businesses for PTRS purposes.

What does this mean?

After preparing the TCP Dataset, the supplier ABNs are run through the Small Business Identification Tool. Payments to suppliers identified by the tool as small businesses are included in the SBTCP Dataset, subject to the applicable treatment of items such as partial payments. The SBTCP Dataset is then used for calculations including average, median, percentile payment times and payments made within terms.

Practical point

The SBTCP Dataset should not be built directly from the accounts payable ledger. The Regulator's process is to prepare the TCP Dataset first and then apply the small-business identification step.

Other ways people ask this

• What does SBTCP Dataset mean?
• Which payments belong in the small-business PTRS dataset?
• How is the SBTCP Dataset different from the TCP Dataset?
• Which dataset is used to calculate P95?

Official sources

• Payment Times Reporting Guidance Materials
  SBTCP Dataset
  Paragraph: 163 · Page: 41
• Payment Times Reporting Guidance Materials
  Calculate Payment Times – Partial payments
  Paragraphs: 164, 165 · Page: 41-42
• Payment Times Reporting Guidance Materials
  Datasets: In practice
  Paragraphs: 170, 171, 172 · Page: 43
• Worked Example – Standard Payment Times Report
  Glossary
  Reference: SBTCP Dataset

Related guidance

• What is the Trade Credit Payment Dataset?
• How do I identify small business suppliers for PTRS?
• What is the Small Business Identification Tool?
• What is P95 in Payment Times Reporting?

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