What's New: Legislation and Localization (2023 release wave 2)

Overview

The video from the Business Central team covers the legislation mission and the four-pillar localization strategy, which starts with enriching the W1 base app. It announces 23 new countries in the cloud, available from December 2023, for a total of 155 markets.

It then walks through delocalization of Swedish functionality, the EU three-party trade and automatic account codes apps (both demoed), the registration number field, Audit File Expert with GL Account Mapping, Intrastat changes (drop shipment for triangular trade, Czech localization) and report formatting enhancements, which are also demoed.

Key points

• Cloud gains 23 new countries, bringing the total to 155 markets from December 2023.
• Swedish delocalization: code is marked obsolete starting with versions 22 and 23, complete removal is planned by version 29 and table removal by version 30.
• EU three-party trade app is for purchase transactions and needs the transaction type to be defined manually on the purchase invoice.
• Automatic account codes must be configured on the automatic account groups page before use.
• Audit File Expert exports accounting and tax data (for example Norwegian SFT, Swedish SIE, French FEC) but needs country-specific extension implementations. It supports scheduling to off-work hours and splitting data by month or date.
• Intrastat drop shipment for triangular trade requires the include drop shipment toggle on the Intrastat report setup page and item ledger entries marked as drop shipment.
• Report format region can now be set from the request page, AL code (a new format region property on report objects), and customer/vendor cards, with fallback to settings.

Features

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

• page 317 “VAT Statement” at 10:15
• page “automatic account groups” at 11:27
• table “GL entries” at 12:07
• page “intrastat report setup page” at 15:36
• table “item ledger entries” at 16:16
• page “my settings page” at 17:51
• report “report object” at 19:18

Not found in BC28-30: page “automatic account groups”, table “GL entries”, page “intrastat report setup page”, table “item ledger entries”, page “my settings page”, report “report object”.

Quotes

• 1:02 “making organizations compliant with various set for by government regulation agency by providing features that automate regulatory tasks”
• 2:37 “these new countries will be available from December this year to be accurate we added to the cloud new 23 countries”
• 3:13 “localization strategy is based on four pillars first pillar is to enrich our core base application”
• 5:08 “we have features that exist in different flavors in various count that we can rethink and refactor with the global mindset”
• 7:04 “with this release we will have one more country Sweden where we completely removed the Swedish local functionalities into app”
• 8:18 “in version 26 uh all the this new functionalities should be enabled after that old Cod will be tagged with obsolete removed”
• 9:16 “in some European countries in order to stay comply it is necessary to report such transactions to the V reports”
• 13:19 “audit File Expert is a functionality that provides an interface for extension to expert accounting and tax data”
• 15:15 “use drop shipment for triangular interest trade and first what is the triangle trade at all triangle trade involves trade between companies located in”
• 15:36 “for interat to use drop shipment you must turn on include drop shipment tole in interest report seta page”
• 17:31 “with the wave 2023 we are also introducing improvements in report formatting before introducing this change it was not possible to change the formatting”
• 18:11 “we are trying to introduce the support for original format on the same way how that was implemented for the language”
• 19:18 “current report object now has property called format region”

Disclaimers in the video

• 1:40 not-in-this-release: forcing digital vouchers e documents and these features will not be show in this presentation
• 2:01 not-in-this-release: you will not show NCT V improvements because this is something we already deliver in previous series
• 7:24 coming-later: the next one going to be Iceland the global plan is to be a little bit more aggressive on the on that way
• 16:56 other: we are dedicated to continue Improvement for existing feature not only for interet but for inter for other features we are creating that means they will not stop when we deliver this feature we continue to improve this uh in the next period

Presenters (as heard): Alexander, Pred, Arthur, Arur.