#France

Calculating your financial KPIs: French legislation 

The Sage Active Dashboard shows you an overview of key information (or KPIs) for you business. These KPIs are either based on direct figures from your existing financial reports or they are the result of calculations performed with these figures. The tables below show the report titles and the description for the report lines that


Determining price and discount modifications in sales documents 

The Unit price and Discount proposed in sales documents are by default the ones that are configured in the Sales prices and discounts tab of each product or service. When a line in a sales document contains changes to the unit price, an icon (  ) is visible at the end of the line. For


Recording payments for third parties 

You can quickly an easily record payments for third parties without having to search through journal entries or invoices. You can simply look up the required third party and record the payment directly from this screen. This process creates the required journal entry and performs the necessary matching based on your choices. The process for


Showing or hiding the post details screen when posting invoices 

When posting sales or purchase invoices, the Post invoice screen allows you to personalise several aspects of the resulting journal entry, depending on the invoice type: Sales: Journal and Description for the journal entry Purchases: Journal, Posting date and Description for the journal entry If you do not want to see this screen appear the


Year-end closing: French legislation 

When you have completed your accounting activity at the end of a fiscal year, you can run the year-end closing process to close it. This process creates the carry-forward entry and generates the FEC file in the format required by the DGFiP. Prerequisite You have created the next fiscal year before running the year-end closing


Performing a month-end closing: French legislation 

In Sage Active, you can perform a month-end closing process to close one or more selected periods and prevent any further changes to journal entries within those periods. The month-end closing process is irreversible. Once you have closed a month, you will not be able to modify, delete or add entries to journals for this


Recording advance payments 

Recording payments that happen before the creation of the invoice they are related to, is possible in several ways in Sage Active, depending on the legislation. Each legislation uses an advance payment ledger account. However, they differ in which amount is recorded on this account. This is either the taxable amount or the amount including


Practical example recording advance payments: French legislation 

Sage Active allows you to easily record all journal entries related to advanced payments that took place before the creation of the invoice they are related to. These advance payments can be recorded for payments from your customers as well as for payments owed to your suppliers. In this article you will find a practical


Preventing modification of a sales document 

When you want to prevent a sales document from being modified or transformed to another sales document, you can close it. Closed documents can still be copied. To close a sales document: Access the sales documents list for the chosen document. Sales > Sales quotes Sales > Sales orders Sales > Sales delivery notes Edit


Recording payments for sales and purchase invoices 

When you have recorded sales or purchase invoices that you submitted to your customers or received from your suppliers, you can easily record the payments for these invoices. The process for sales and purchases is very similar. Both are described in the steps below. Prerequisites The invoice you want to record the payment for is



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