Finance, tax & compliance
How this is scored
Whether the ERP keeps books a tax adviser and an auditor accept: general and subledgers, VAT per country, GoBD-compliant posting and archiving, e-invoices sent and received (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD), payments and dunning, and a DATEV export or a documented hand-over to the accountant.
0 — No accounting at all; invoices leave as PDFs and the books are kept somewhere else by hand.
3 — Invoices and credit notes are created in the system, but there is no ledger, no stated GoBD compliance and no export the accountant can import.
5 — Invoices, open items and payments in the system with a DATEV or accounting export, VAT rates per item, dunning, and e-invoices in XRechnung or ZUGFeRD format sent to customers.
8 — Full financial accounting or a live-synchronised one: general, receivables and payables ledgers, incoming e-invoices read and matched to purchase orders, bank feeds with payment matching, OSS and reverse-charge VAT, GoBD compliance stated with a procedure documentation, and several companies in one tenant.
10 — The money side closes inside the system: an auditor's GoBD or IDW PS 880 attestation published, consolidation and intercompany postings across entities, fixed assets and cost accounting, every posting traceable to the order, goods movement and user behind it, and period close with locked periods documented.
The Head of Finance
The accounting side is properly German: double-entry bookkeeping on SKR03 and SKR04 charts, VAT pre-registration via ELSTER, the EU summary statement via XML, multi-level dunning with fees, SEPA file creation and a DATEV hand-over for the tax adviser — and the financial software is stated as audited to IDW PS 880, which an auditor accepts. E-invoices go out and come in as XRechnung and ZUGFeRD directly in the ERP, period and annual closings run with automatic balance carryforwards across up to 999 periods, and fixed assets with AfA preview plus cost accounting and budgeting are included. We found no public information on GoBD procedure documentation, bank feeds with automatic payment matching, intercompany postings across several companies in one tenant, or locked periods. 1 2 9 11 12