France

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Overview

The France section collects the features that Business Central adds for French legal and accounting needs. The landing page lists the main areas: VAT reporting, e-invoicing (UBL 2.1 and Factur-X), banking and payment management, core finance, sales invoicing and fixed assets. It also mentions audit export, general ledger export for tax audits, XML export of ledger entries, the Declaration of Trade in Goods, the service declaration DES and electronic invoicing. It lists 2026 release wave 2.

Five subtopics hold the detail. VAT covers audit files, XML archiving and DEB. Banking and payments covers payment classes, statuses, steps, addresses and payment slips, including SEPA. E-invoicing covers enabling electronic invoices and the E-Reporting FR format. Core finance covers G/L entry application, posting periods and the fiscal year-end cycle. Fixed assets covers accelerated depreciation.

Start with the subtopic that matches your task. For year-end or ledger work, go to Core finance. For tax audit files, go to VAT. For payment setup, go to Banking and payments.

Key points

• VAT: export general ledger entries for tax audits, export them to XML for archiving, and set up Declaration of Trade in Goods (DEB) requirements.
• Banking and payments: payment management uses payment classes, statuses, steps and addresses; payment slips can be created, posted, archived and exported, with SEPA covered for customer and vendor payments.
• E-invoicing: enable electronic invoicing with UBL 2.1 (PEPPOL BIS 3.0) or Factur-X, and use the E-Reporting FR e-document format.
• E-invoicing pages address the French e-invoicing reform, PDP delivery and tax authority reporting.
• Core finance: apply and unapply G/L entries, manage posting periods, open, close and reopen periods and years, and close income statement accounts.
• Core finance also includes French ledger reports.
• Fixed assets: accelerated depreciation with separate tax and accounting depreciation books, their setup, and the Calculate Depreciation batch job.
• The landing page references 2026 release wave 2 and also mentions the service declaration DES and sales invoicing.

Subtopics

• VAT (3 pages)
• Banking & payments (8 pages)
• E-invoicing (2 pages)
• Core finance (15 pages)
• Fixed assets (3 pages)

More Learn pages

• France local functionality: This article describes the various local functionalities in the French version of Business Central.

Business Central pages and reports

The pages, reports and queries this hub’s Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.

• Page 16 “Chart of Accounts” · on Table 15 “G/L Account” · via Core finance
• Page 5610 “Depreciation Book Card” · on Table 5611 “Depreciation Book” · via Fixed assets
• Page 5611 “Depreciation Book List” · captioned “Depreciation Books” · on Table 5611 “Depreciation Book” · via Fixed assets
• Page 5612 “FA Posting Group Card” · on Table 5606 “FA Posting Group” · via Fixed assets

Learn also names 19 objects with no object page: page/10842, page/10860, page/10861, page/10864, page/10865, page/10866, page/10867, page/10868, page/10869, page/10870, page/10871, page/10872, page/10873, page/10874, page/10877, page/10878, page/10879, page/10880, page/10882.

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