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    Legal Entities

    • A Legal Entity is required for each organisation that financial documents will be entered against.

    • One or many Legal Entities may exist within each environment and they can share details e.g. Tax Authority, Financial Year Group, Base currency, etc.

      Note

      Where multiple Legal Entities exist, consolidated reporting options are available, regardless of shared periodicity and even base currency.

      The decision to share setup e.g. Financial Year Group, apart from the commonality of year end date may be governed by the business process to e.g. share period end handling.

      Tip

      Select to jump to the Legal Entity contact account and see the related addresses, phones, emails, contacts, URLs.

      Entity

      • Code: Unique code for the Legal Entity

        Note

        Use an easy to remember code as it will be:

        • Shared with the associated contact account and
        • Also be the Interco code (if applicable) and thus be used as a posting attribute value.
        • Description

    The Tabs

    • General
    • Bank accounts
    • Stationery and images
    • Advanced
    • Resource
    • Tax Registrations
    • Locations
    • Interco
    • Data Control
    • Emails
    • Log
    • General

      • Tax Authority

      • Multiple tax registrations:

      • Country:

      • Currency: Base currency for the Legal Entity.

      • Financial Year Group

      • Interco: Tick this check box if you also wish to use this Legal Entity for Interco documents. This will create an addition Tab - see Interco Tab.

    • References

      • Company No:

      • Incorporation date:

      • UTR reference: Unique Tax Reference (used in England and Wales Tax Authority

      • EORI number:

      • Charity No:

    • Bank Accounts

      Each Legal Entity may have many bank accounts.

      Tip

      If you have the correct access to view bank accounts, press CTRL then click to jump to the underlined bank account.

    • Defaults

      Set these defaults for use when entering quick payments, Bulk payments, etc using this Legal Entity.

      Various default bank accounts can be set for documents dependant upon document class, document type, legal entity, currency of the document.

      For example, Sales Invoice on Legal A: Current.

      Then the appropriate Bank account will show in Reports etc.

    • The images and links identified in this section are automatically used on documents (e.g. Sale Invoice, remittance) and communications associated with this Legal Entity.

      Default settings for regular report generation where no overrides are set -

      • Logo: The company logo used for documents.

      • Email logo URL: The URL link to get the logo for email documents.

        • Select the icon to add or create image.

        • Select your image from your external source.

      • Receipt logo: The URL link to get the logo for email documents.

        Note

        Only images such as .svg, .jpg, .png are possible.

        Only one file can be loaded at a time.

        Image files are limited to 5mb for logos and 1mb for email logos.


      Report text -

      Users can set up Overrides to create bespoke Reports. Available criteria for when the Overrides apply are -

      • Date from: Only applies from the Document date.

      • Date to: Only applies up to this date. If this is blank, then there is no end date.

      • Tax authority: Override only applies if this value matches the tax authority on the document's Contact account.

      • Tax region: Override only applies if this value matches the tax region on the document's Contact account.

      • Document class: Only applies to any Document classes entered here.

      • Document type: Only applies to any Document types enter here.

      • Currency: Only applies to any Currencies entered here.

      • Contact group: Only applies to any Contact groups entered here.

      • Project group: Only applies to any Project groups entered here.

      • Project: Only applies to any Projects entered here that matches the project in the document header.


      The following sections in a report can be set to occur when the override criteria are met. Each section can be found under Purpose with the change in the Value field.

      Note

      Not all these Purposes need to need to be set. When a report is generated using documents, only the overrides that have been set will apply.

      Any that don't fall within the conditions set will use the standard report.

      • If Purpose is set to Header and the criteria applies, then the text in Value will show in the middle top of the report.

        For example -

      • If Purpose is set to Footer and the criteria applies, then the text in Value will show in the middle bottom of the report.

        For example -

      • If Purpose is set to Logo and the criteria applies, then the image selected in Value will replace the image in the top right of the report.

        For example -

        Note

        Available Images need to be loaded into the Images table.

        Add/View these by selecting Images in the Finder menu.

      • If Purpose is set to LE Address type and the criteria applies, then the address entered in Value, which can be selected from any of the addresses setup in Address types, will display in the top right of the document.

      • If Purpose is set to Registered Address Type and the criteria applies, and the report you're checking has a registered address at the bottom of the page, then the address selected in Value, which can be selected from any of the addresses setup in Address types, will be entered at Registered in.... at the bottom of the document.

      • Format Addresses:

        If Purpose is set to one of the Format Address options and the criteria applies, then the appropriate address on the document will be formatted with the address format selected in the Value field.

      • If Purpose is set to Tax Registration Text and the criteria applies, then the text at the bottom of the document from **Registered in ..." will be replaced with the text entered in the Value field.

      • If Purpose is set to Consumption Tax and the criteria applies, then any occurrence in the document with VAT will be replaced with the text in the Value field. e.g GST for Australia.

        For example -

      • If Purpose is set to Remit to and the criteria applies, then a Please remit to line will be added to the document showing the Bank details from either the Legal entity or from the Bank Account name, depending on the option selected in the Value field.

    • Used to record default tolerances (e.g. tax tolerance) and document types for the Legal Entity.

    • FX tolerances: these can be set in this section which will affect the FX realised function.

    • AP automation aliases: alternative names to match during AP Automation scanning

    • In the majority of instances, a Legal Entity will only have one Tax Registration.

    • In the instances where a Legal Entity has multiple tax registrations e.g. the Legal Entity has separate VAT registrations in both England & Wales and Ireland Tax Authorities. Where this is the case, if the Tax Authority of e.g. a sale invoice is different to the default Tax Authority for the Legal Entity but is in another tax registration then the Tax Authority is available for selection on the document and the responsibility of the resulting tax posting will go to the selected Tax Authority.

    Set up Legal Entity as Interco.

    1. On the General Tab, tick the Interco checkbox.

    2. A new tab will be created for Interco

    3. Relate each Interco Legal Entity to other Interco Legal Entity(s) and tick the checkbox for each type of movement (e.g. payment which is needed for Bulk Interco payments).

      Tip

      These relationships must be identified per Legal Entity (which is identified as Interco) to define the possible Interco movements between them.

      • This is required to be able to process Interco documents between the Interco Legal Entities e.g. Cashbook transfers, Interco Sales, Interco Purchase invoices, Interco tax.
      Tip

      Use automation(s) to automate the creation of certain documents in both Legal entities e.g. to automatically create a Purchase invoice in Legal Entity B following the posting of a Sale invoice in Legal Entity A.

    • If Data Access Control is activated, you can also use the Data Control tab to add Legal Entities to Data Access Control Groups.


    Updated December 2024

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