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 Operations Lead
Bookings are immutable and corrected only by automatic reversal referencing the original, a logging function covers changes to bookings, master data, tax keys and period closes, and the auditor gets a GoBD export with Z1/Z2/Z3 access and an IDEA interface. E-invoices are created and received as XRechnung and ZUGFeRD 2.0/2.1 with automatic readout into the booking mask, bank statements post automatically, unlimited Mandanten run in one installation, and the DATEV handover works in both directions with a lock flag. We found no public information on OSS or reverse-charge VAT or an auditor's attestation, and the vendor supplies guidance while creating the procedure documentation remains with the company. 6 7