Creature Treasure and Treasure Value Per Encounter

[Matuku]

I'm a little confused about how treasure works in Pathfinder.

On the one hand you have the table 12-5 which lists how much treasure should be given per encounter with a ruling that NPC encounters should be followed by zero treasure encounters.

On the other you have the fact that each creature has a treasure stat-line which tells you how much treasure they themselves produce.

So which one should be used? Do you work out random treasure equal to the amount for the encounter? Or do you simply use the treasure from the monsters stat block (and if it's standard make it up to the value given in table 12-5 for a monster of that level).

Or even a combination where you use the treasure line of each monster and make up any deficit with random treasure?

[Jeff1964]

Table 12-5 basically gives you the treasure (in gp) that a monster of that CR would have as standard treasure. What I do, especially if I'm putting together something from scratch, is place all the monsters I'm going to use, then total up the treasure that all of those creatures would have if they all had standard treasures. If any of the creatures have incidental treasures, or are NPC types, I specify what treasure they have and deduct it from the total. Creatures with standard treasures get a reasonable amount of believable treasure type (not all creatures will sit on a giant pile of gold). Anything left over, I put in interesting little spots like hidden rooms or in trapped chests, things like that. The boss monster always gets a little extra, sometimes useful in the fight and sometimes just loot in his hideout.