## (FRA) Understanding Country-Specific Functionality for France

This chapter provides an overview of France-specific setup and processes that you use in addition to the standard setup and processes provided in the base software.

### France-Specific Setup and Processes

This table lists the country-specific setup and functionality for France.

Setup or Process | Description
UDCs (user-defined codes) | Setting up France-specific UDCs enables you to use France-specific functionality. You also set up some base software UDCs with France-specific values. Set up these UDCs to work with functionality for France: Set up UDCs for European Union reporting. See Setting Up UDCs for Intrastat Reporting. Set up UDCs to print invoices with an attached International Payment Instruction (IPI). See Setting Up UDCs for International Payment Instructions. Set up these UDCs for companies: Affiliated Companies (74/AC) Code Number (74/30) See Setting Up UDCs for European Companies. Set up UDCs to process taxes. See Setting Up UDCs for Tax Processing for France. Set up UDCs before running annual reports. See Setting Up UDCs for Annual Reporting for France.
AAIs (automatic accounting instructions) | Set up base software AAIs before processing taxable transactions. See Setting Up AAIs for France.
Customers and suppliers | You can generate reports for customer and supplier balances. See Printing Customer/Supplier Balance Reports.
Bank accounts | To work with bank accounts in France: Review the overview about bank account validation. See Understanding Bank ID and Bank Account Validation. See Understanding Bank Account Validation. Review the overview about using international bank account numbers (IBAN). See Understanding International Bank Account Numbers. Before you assign bank accounts to customers, verify that your customers have a country code that is equal to FR (France) or a blank with FR in the second description of the 00/CN UDC table. The validation of the online bank account information validation is activated based on the R.I.B. key. For electronic funds transfer, the Banque de France assigns a sender's number that you enter in the Reference/Roll field when setting up supplier master information. See Setting Up Customer Bank Accounts.
Chart of accounts | France requires a chart of accounts that is different from the standard chart of accounts provided. See Understanding the Alternate Chart of Accounts for France.
Closing accounting periods | In addition to the standard processes for closing an accounting period, France-specific processes exist for generating these reports: Sequential Number Report - Tax File (R74099A). Sequential Number Report - A/P Ledger (R74099B). Sequential Number Report - AR (R74099C and R74099D). T/B by Object and Subsidiary (R7409C3). T/B by Category Code (R70472). See (FRA) Reports for France.
Closing a fiscal year | Additional processes exist for closing a fiscal year in France. See Closing Accounting Periods and a Fiscal Year in France.
Automatic debit processing | To work with automatic debits for France: Review the overview of working with draft remittance. See Understanding Draft Remittance for France. On the Revise BACS Information (revise bank automated clearing system information) form, enter the sender's bank ID in the Bank User Number field to process electronic funds transfers for France. Set the processing options for the Automatic Debits French Format (R03B575FD) program. See Working With Automatic Debits for France.
Payment processing | Set up payment formats to process payments for France. See Setting Up Payment Formats for France.
Invoice processing | In addition to standard invoice processing, you can print invoices with an attached International Payment Instructions (IPI). To print these invoices and attachments: Set up UDCs for IPIs. See Setting Up UDCs for International Payment Instructions. Print invoices with attached IPIs. See Printing Invoices with an Attached International Payment Instruction. When posting invoices in France: It is recommended that users in France use offset method Y because it maintains the correct separate debit and credit balances, even if positive documents (invoices) and negative documents (credit memos) are included in the same batch. It is recommended that if offset method B is used to post transactions in France, procedures are established to control the entry of different types of transactions, such as invoices and debit notes, in the same batch for posting. See Understanding the Invoice Post Process.
Bad debts and unrecoverable losses | You must use specific accounts to process bad debts and unrecoverable debts in France. See Managing Bad Debts for France.
VAT (value-added tax) | In addition to the standard setup for tax processing, before processing transactions that are subject to VAT, set up: UDCs. See Setting Up UDCs for Tax Processing for France. AAIs. See Setting Up AAIs for Tax Processing for France. Processing options for the General Ledger Post Report (R09801) program. General ledger accounts for VAT. See Setting Up the System for VAT Reporting.
Fixed assets | In addition to the standard processes for fixed assets, this functionality exists for France: Use the French Derogatory Depreciation program (R7412855A) to calculate the difference between the French Declining Balance ledger and the French Straight Line ledger. See Setting Up AAIs for Depreciation Reporting for France. See Running the French Derogatory Depreciation Report. France-specific depreciation methods. See Understanding International Depreciation Methods.
Financial reporting for France | In addition to standard financial reports, you can produce reports for France: Report the different types of fees that are paid during the fiscal year. See Working with the D.A.S. 2 Report. Use provided programs and the ETAFI (Etats Financiers) interface to produce the Liasse Fiscale reports that are required by French authorities. See Working with the ETAFI Interface.
Intrastat and other European Union reporting | See (Europe) Setting Up European Union Functionality. See (Europe) Using European Union Functionality.
Integrity reports | JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software provides these integrity reports for France: G/L by Category Code (R70470). T/B by Category Code R70472). Debit/Credit T/B by Object (R09473). A/R Inventory Book (R7403B926). A/P Inventory Book (R7404026). Sequential Number Report - Tax File (R74099A). Sequential Number Report - A/P Ledger (R74099B). Sequential Number Report - A/R (R74099C). G/L by Object and Subsidiary (R7409C1). T/B by Object and Subsidiary (R7409C3). General Journal (R7409C5). See (FRA) Reports for France.
Oracle Business Accelerator | The Oracle Business Accelerator solution is available for France, as well as other countries. The preconfigured data that are part of the Oracle Business Accelerator solution is based on business processes that have been designed according to the best business practices for a specific country and industry. See http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/iou/implement/rapid_start/rapid_start_prtr_notes.jsp