What's New: The Danish Bookkeeping Act (2024 release wave 1)

Overview

The session covers how Business Central meets the Danish Bookkeeping Act (DBA). It states that Business Central is certified by DBA in the first phase from January 1st 2024, as a standard solution, and that customizations affecting bookkeeping or 5-year data retention remove that standard status. The certification applies to the cloud solution; on-premises needs separate certification.

The demos show the SAF-T setup guide, mapping the company chart of accounts to the public standard chart (57 of 18600 accounts matched automatically), optional VAT posting setup mapping, dimensions export, and file generation with parallel processing for large exports. The session then covers digital vouchers on sales and purchase documents, daily automatic export to secure storage in the cloud, CVR number rules in production, NemHandle registration, and e-documents.

Key points

• Business Central is certified by the DBA from January 1st 2024 as a standard solution, for the cloud only. On-premises is not certified, and customizations or ISV apps that affect bookkeeping must be certified by the partner.
• The SAF-T feature is enabled from feature management, and enabling it in one company enables it for all. All accounts must be mapped to the standard chart of accounts. VAT posting setup mapping is optional.
• SAF-T export produces master data, GL entries and source documents files. For big exports, the parallel processing option can schedule file generation. You can also export Regnskab Basis data to CSV and import SAF-T files to keep history.
• Digital vouchers: sales invoices get one generated and attached automatically on posting. Purchase documents need a manual attachment, and posting is blocked without it. This is voluntary until July 1st and enforced after that.
• After posting, the original attachment cannot be removed or updated, but you can add more attachments.
• Transactions and vouchers are kept for at least 5 years through a daily export to secure blob storage. This applies to the cloud only, and users cannot access that data.
• In production, GL posting is blocked until the CVR number is entered. Once entered, it cannot be removed and the company cannot be deleted. Sandboxes are exempt, and copying a company does not copy the CVR number.

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 “SAF-T Setup Guide” at 10:52
• table 50 “Accounting Period” at 11:12
• page 16 “Chart of Accounts” at 11:52
• page 472 “VAT Posting Setup” at 13:44
• page 5266 “Audit File Export Documents” at 14:48
• page “Audit File Expert documents” at 14:48
• page 5579 “Digital Voucher Entry Setup” at 24:31
• table “general ledger entry” at 27:29
• page “incoming document files” at 26:50
• table “GL Entry” at 27:09
• table “Customer Ledger Entry” at 33:20
• table 25 “Vendor Ledger Entry” at 33:20
• table 112 “Sales Invoice Header” at 33:20
• table 113 “Sales Invoice Line” at 33:20
• table “Credit Memo Header” at 33:20
• table “Purchase Invoice” at 33:20
• table “Purchase Credit Memo Header” at 33:41
• table “Reminders” at 33:41
• table “General Journal Lines” at 33:41
• table “Currency Exchange Rates” at 33:41
• table “General Ledger Account” at 33:41
• table 18 “Customer” at 33:41
• table 23 “Vendor” at 33:41
• table 270 “Bank Account” at 33:41
• table 5600 “Fixed Asset” at 33:41
• table “Fixed Asset Depreciation Book” at 34:01

Not found in BC28-30: page “SAF-T Setup Guide”, page “Audit File Expert documents”, table “general ledger entry”, page “incoming document files”, table “GL Entry”, table “Customer Ledger Entry”, table “Credit Memo Header”, table “Purchase Invoice”, table “Purchase Credit Memo Header”, table “Reminders”, table “General Journal Lines”, table “Currency Exchange Rates”, table “General Ledger Account”, table “Fixed Asset Depreciation Book”.

Quotes

• 1:32 “Business Central is certified in Denmark by DBA in first phase in the first set from January 1st 2024 so we are fully certified”
• 1:52 “Microsoft certify as a standard solution that means uh as is because we cannot predict what can be extended so by DBA this is”
• 2:09 “everything what is related with bookkeeping with the keeping uh data for 5 years for example it will not be standard solution uh anymore”
• 3:10 “if you’re using on print solution we didn’t certify on print solution currently this is not possible because of some um physical limitation”
• 7:38 “from February 1st uh we updated our terms of use for uh Denmark so now we have we are abolutely compliance we didn’t activate”
• 7:58 “after more more than 300 engineering days in Investments on building all these features now we are starting with a new phase Improvement based”
• 12:12 “57 of 18600 accounts automatically matched and how I can check this I can click open the setup page”
• 15:21 “the option is called parallel processing and that will help you to schedule the generation of thef file to this for example hours”
• 18:03 “busy Central now supports V submission through tax API to scut uh this app is already finished”
• 18:23 “this app is already finished it does not require customer certificate this is important because Microsoft has built in uh inside”
• 19:04 “certificate Microsoft certificate is preinstalled only the Cloud solution for on print solution you must use your own certificate”
• 20:19 “this u n hand registration is not only for this notification it will be necessary for your invoicing in the future”
• 21:59 “we do not provide direct connection with n handle for direct connection with n handle Danish authorities required to have n handle certified service”
• 23:20 “but in Denmark it will be by default currently this is still voluntary until July 1st from July 1st it will be enforced”
• 23:40 “for sales we have automatically creation generation actually document when you post sales invoice syst will automatically create and attach”
• 26:30 “it’s not possible to post without attaching the digital voucher”
• 28:34 “once when you post document with attachment you cannot remove this attachment after that you cannot update but you can add additional attachment”
• 29:15 “it is applicable only for cloud this does not exist in a on Prem solution”
• 29:35 “storage transactions uh must exist for all the cor transaction and receipts or vouchers for minimum for”
• 32:09 “transactions if you didn’t enter your cvr number”
• 33:10 “we are exporting only minimal set of fields required by the law actually required by”

Disclaimers in the video

• 3:10 not-in-this-release: on print solution we didn’t certify on print solution currently this is not possible because of some um physical limitation
• 5:02 subject-to-change: all your feedback um we first need to filter it because we are enforced by the law we must be compliant by the law and if there is some space we can make more um better options
• 18:43 subject-to-change: documentation maybe is not um fully uh uh changed it will be updated in the next few days
• 23:20 coming-later: currently this is still voluntary until July 1st from July 1st it will be enforced
• 29:35 not-in-this-release: it is applicable only for cloud this does not exist in a on Prem solution
• 38:24 preview: we have independent session about e documents and we have one really great automation great example of using co-pilot

Presenters (as heard): Tomas (To), Arthur, Alexander.