Accounting

As a major source of government revenue, VAT must be properly managed to comply with regulations and avoid financial penalties, enabling businesses to maintain competitive prices while ensuring profitability. Playing a key role in the traceability and transparency of commercial transactions, collected VAT obliges companies to maintain accurate records of their sales and purchases, to facilitate any tax audit.

Keeping accounts is not only a legal requirement, but above all a way of ensuring efficient, long-term financial management. But before delegating the task to a chartered accountant or using dedicated software, there's a preliminary stage designed to "premaster" the accounting work: pre-accounting. This involves gathering, classifying and recording basic financial information in an orderly fashion, before it is processed in the official accounting books. Steps to follow, benefits, the role of dematerialization... Find out in our article how pre-accounting can help you optimize your financial management.

Expected - even desired - by many companies, the postponement of the general introduction of electronic invoicing to September 1, 2026 should not be synonymous with complacency on the part of stakeholders. Rather, it represents an opportunity and time to deploy the system more serenely. While a great deal of work has gone into getting companies to understand what e-invoicing is, the subject of e-reporting needs to be better grasped by companies, as it complements electronic invoicing. In this article, we take a look at the objective, the companies concerned and the type of data transmitted.

Effective management of trade receivables has a positive impact on your company's cash flow and, more generally, on its financial health. Controlling payment deadlines and combating non-payment can help you avoid running out of cash. Let's take a look at how trade receivables work, their impact on your organization, and how to handle them with high-performance invoicing software.

Phishing, ransomware, fake supplier fraud... It's essential to be fully aware of the risks in order to better protect against them and choose appropriate solutions, such as those offered by our Partner Dematerialization Platforms (PDP), which have SecNumCloud qualification and ISO 27001 certification.

You receive a supplier invoice and need to check it against the purchase order. On paper, nothing too complicated. In practice, the essential step of reconciling supplier invoices with purchase orders can quickly become as complex as it is time-consuming, as your company's activity intensifies... But let's take a look at things in order and find out how to go about it.

Effective cash management is an essential foundation for the success of any business. Careful monitoring helps to ensure financial stability, anticipate cash requirements and make informed decisions. It is therefore essential to optimize cash management to ensure that your business remains healthy, even in financially difficult times. While this may seem a complex task, adopting a number of best practices makes it easy to reap all the benefits. Here's how.

You don't have to worry about implementing electronic invoicing in your company. Properly prepared, the transition to this new mode of operation has every chance of going smoothly between now and 2026 (postponement of the entry into force scheduled for 2024). Far from being reduced to a simple connection to a dematerialization platform, electronic invoicing in your company must respect a few key stages. How can you successfully deploy such an important project in your organization? Where do you start? In this article, you'll find our advice to help you prepare your project.

Corporate accounting is a key function of any business, large or small. It involves keeping accurate financial records, managing cash flows and producing regular financial reports. But far from being reduced to calculations and the alignment of figures, it plays a major role in strategic decision-making and the communication of financial performance. Find out more about the broad principles of corporate accounting and the opportunities it offers management in our article.

B2B companies will be obliged to switch to electronic invoicing from 2026 onwards (postponed from 2024). As chartered accountants, you are the trusted advisors of company directors, and therefore in the best position to guide them in the dematerialization of their invoices. As the deadlines approach, more and more of your clients are asking questions about their choice of platform. While some may have already opted for the Public Billing Portal (PPF), others prefer the more functional PDP alternative. To help them make the best possible choice, here's some advice you can give them.

Validating supplier invoices is an important part of a company's accounting system. Nevertheless, it is a tedious and time-consuming task, as well as being a sensitive one: the slightest error exposes the company to penalties. The automation of this circuit, made possible by invoice dematerialization, not only saves time and increases efficiency, but also ensures that you're in the clear in the event of an audit. Would you like to automate the supplier invoice validation circuit in your company? Freedz presents the 5 steps you need to take to implement it.

In the aftermath of the health crisis, companies are facing a European geopolitical conflict and, with it, serious consequences on the economy with a drop in the financial markets. At their helm, managers are relying on the accounting and finance departments - with the CFO at the top of the list - to face the challenges and try to navigate between inflation, shortages of raw materials and recruitment difficulties in certain professions. As a true captain of the ship, the CFO must lead the company through a stormy year 2023. Let's take a closer look at the major issues that await him in 2023.