1 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 DA1251 German Specific Controls

2 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 Overview Overview of German Specific Controls A number of options and fields have been identified as 'incorrect' in Germany, despite being acceptable elsewhere With your system set up to use German Specific Controls, functionality is provided to protect the integrity of transactional and master data from an Auditor’s perspective by: restricting access to selected options restricting values within selected fields restricting the way selected options work Overview of German Specific Controls A number of options and fields have been identified as 'incorrect' in Germany, despite being acceptable elsewhere With your system set up to use German Specific Controls, functionality is provided to protect the integrity of transactional and master data from an Auditor’s perspective by: restricting access to selected options restricting values within selected fields restricting the way selected options work

3 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 General Configuration

4 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 Control Account Maintenance This option has been modified to prevent selected control accounts from being defined The following control accounts are NOT available with your system set up to use German Specific Controls: Journal account Unrealised gains Unrealised losses The following control accounts are NOT available with your system set up to use German Specific Controls: Journal account Unrealised gains Unrealised losses

5 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 Functionality Restrictions

6 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 Foreign Currency Analysis This option has been modified to prevent automatic generation of a reversing General Ledger journal – you can now only use this option to produce a currency analysis report The checkboxes that enable you to generate a reversing General Ledger journal that automatically posts unrealised exchange rate gains and/or losses are not available – the Unrealised gains / losses control accounts are therefore not required (see slide 4) Note that the same restrictions apply to both the Accounts Payable Foreign Currency Analysis and the Accounts Receivable Foreign Currency Analysis

7 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 Journals This option has been modified to ONLY allow balancing journals be entered and posted – unallocated amounts are not permitted The partial allocation and full allocation amounts add to 0 (zero) The Allocated and Unallocated amounts are both 0 (zero)

8 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 Journals As a consequence, the total value of the journal is also 0 (zero) and...

9 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 Journals … the Control amount and batch Amount are both 0 (zero) When the journal batch is posted there is no unallocated amount to post to a journal control account – the Journal control account is therefore not required (see slide 4) Note that the same restrictions apply to both Accounts Payable Journals and Accounts Receivable Journals

10 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 Access Restrictions

11 of 11 DA1251 German Specific Controls Last updated: March-2004 Realise Exchange Differences This option is not available with your system set up to use German Specific Controls You cannot use this option to realise gains and/or losses against variable exchange rates prior to the exchange rate becoming fixed Note that this restriction applies in both Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable