Budgets, finance plans & cash flow · Specialist

Collection account

Also called: CAM

ELI5

A controlled account receiving project revenues and distributing them under an agreed waterfall.

Used in conversation

“The agreement should state collection account clearly.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Collection account” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Connected terms

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.