Introduction
With the Financial accounting France function, Comarch Financials Enterprise supports the country-specific special features relating to accounting in France. To do this, you can use applications and functions in financial accounting that take into account the laws and regulations valid in France with regard to sales tax treatment.
This article provides you with an overview of the enhancements that are available in Comarch Financials Enterprise for the Financial accounting France function.
Definition of terms
FEC
Fichier des écritures comptables refers to the legally prescribed posting file for tax audits in France.
SIREN
The SIREN is used to uniquely identify companies and institutions in France. This is a 9-digit number that is usually made up of three groups of three digits each, e.g. 123 456 789.
SIRET
The SIRET is the extension of the SIREN to include the branch, i.e. the unique identification of the branch of a company in France. The SIRET is a 14-digit number made up of the 9-digit SIREN and a 5-digit number for the branch, e.g. 123 456 789 01234.
Financial accounting France function
In order to be able to use the Financial accounting France function, the function must be activated in the Customizing application. This is done for the respective organization with the function Comarch Financials Enterprise. The Financial accounting function and within this the Financial accounting France function must be activated here.
Further information can be found in article Customizing: Comarch Financials Enterprise for France.
In addition, further settings are required in the Customizing application in the Financial accounting function. Since opening balance postings must also be output in the FEC posting file, the Generate opening balance sheet postings indicator must be activated under the Defaulting sub function in the Posting bottom tab and a standard transaction code must be entered for the opening balance postings.
In the Declarations function, you can specify the target folder for the output of the FEC posting file in the Other tab in the Folder for GDPdU field. If a folder is entered here, this will be used as the output folder in the background application Output French posting files (FEC).
Detailed information to the general settings for financial accounting, which are also relevant for organizations with activated financial accounting France, can be found in article Customizing: Comarch Financials Enterprise.
Extensions for France
This chapter contains the applications in which additional fields are available for organizations with the activated Financial accounting France function.
Fiscal years application
In the Fiscal Years application, the Final version of FEC and Date final version of FEC fields are displayed on the Financial Accounting tab. These fields inform whether the final file version of the FEC has been created for the fiscal year.
A detailed description of the extensions in the Fiscal Years application can be found in article Extension: Fiscal Years/Comarch Financials Enterprise for France.
Partners application
In the Partners application, in the Accounting view, the Tax number field is integrated on the Financial accounting tab. In this field you enter the personal tax number if the partner is your own organization. For a French organization, your own 14-digit SIRET must be entered here.
Evaluations
By activating the Financial accounting France function, you have the option of output postings for the tax audit.
Output French posting file (FEC) application
You can use this batch application to create the legally required FEC posting file for the tax audit. All postings for object accounts for a fiscal year are output in this file. When the batch application is called, a dialog window opens in which you specify the selection criteria for the data. With the button [In batch] a processing job is started which outputs the data in one or more CSV files in the specified output folder.
A detailed description of this batch application can be found in article Output French posting file (FEC).
Payments
In payment transactions, organizations with the activated Financial accounting France function have additional functions. Incoming bills of exchange, for example, can be output in a file with the format CFONB via the application Cockpit: Payment instruments.
A detailed description of the extensions in payment transactions can be found in article Extension: Payment Transactions France.