This setup for for companies that:
- participate in trading within its own group of companies (subsidiaries, sister company, parent organisation etc.), and need to
- generate Balance Sheet and Trial Balance reports that separate Debtor and Creditor amounts accumulated from intercompany trading apart from Trade Debtors and Trade Creditors accounts.
Take note that this setup does not affect reports from Ageing Analysis, Debtor/Creditor Ledger and Statement of Account.
To facilitate this process the system needs to know:
- Which account(s) are being used for intercompany trading, and
- which Business Partners are part of the intercompany trading group.
Follow the steps below to perform the required setup.
[For 1] First, create the Debtor and Creditor accounts for Intercompany Trading.
The account category should be Trade Debtor and Trade Creditor respectively.
Duplicate the existing Customer group and replace "Trade Debtor" with the account created to hold Debtor amount for intercompany trading.
(do the same for Vendor group if you also make intercompany purchases)
[For 2] Register your affiliated company as a Business Partner.
Then set choose the intercompany Customer/Vendor group as their group. (If already done, edit and change the group)
This makes the custom double-entries apply to documents created for this Business Partner.
See the setup in action shown in screenshot below:
On the Balance Sheet, you can see the amounts separated by account.
In Ageing Analysis, there is a subtotal for each Business Partner; the total is combined amount from all Debtors/Creditors.
This is because Ageing Analysis does not discriminate by Debtor/Creditor account.