subject: Sap Business One Russian Federation Help To Multinational Companies [print this page] Russia is working on improving its business climate. One of the sides in this process is ERP software products as well as their compliance to pretty complex business regulation. Traditionally we use the hybrid of French and German model where government approved GL transactions and Chart of Accounts are in central position. It is probably not something too complex but it is challenge for accounting software traditionally following accrual model to provide compliance. If you are reading this article then we assume that you are international manager who was sent from the United States or Europe to lead your subsidiary or office in Moscow or across Russia and even possibly in Siberia
1.SAP Business One versus 1S Bukhgalteria. The second one is likely more familiar to local accountants and prints annual and quarterly reporting without major issues. The question for you is rather to decide on the priorities. Do we need accounting software compliant to our corporate ERP system and capable to produce managerial reports and be ready for internal audit? Or you would rather stick to local compliance? We cannot dictate the answer as each company has its unique internal business rules and climate if you wish this term
2.Now why do we recommend Business One? Well offices in foreign countries are often modest in their business operations and revenue generation. This is why full-featured SAP if you deploy the one in headquarters might be too expensive for being implemented. SAP B1 in its turn supports English, French, Russian, Chinese and Spanish just to open the list of languages. There are tools to consolidate all the subsidiaries in single consolidated General Ledger for P&L and Balance Sheet reports for the whole group
3.We hear from our Chief Accountant in Nizhniy Novgorod that he is not comfortable with B1 and rather favoring program where tax reporting could be produced and printed. What should we consider? There might be internal conflict of interests and job duties. In RF Chief Accountant often has the duty to prepare tax reports and personally submit and discuss them with tax agency officer. We recommend you to consider compromise and offer 1C Accounting for importing GL entries from Business and print Balance report plus additional forms from there
4.Who is ready to come out onsite to our mining facility in Eastern Siberia? We contacted several resellers in Moscow and they indicated that the likely option will be remote support and hosting the server in Moscow branch. The answer is rather being practical. It is good idea to send consultant onsite for initial relation establishing. Reliable internet is commodity nowadays: Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Services and Cloud in general. We will send consultants onsite from Krasnogorsk Moscow region or from Chicago whatever you prefer. We speak native Russian and we are fuelled by Software Development Factory to meet the requirements of large scale project. Regarding the server hosting we would recommend you to host it in US headquarters. This method should allow you to retail control and be flexible in preparing consolidated financial reporting
5.In Moscow please call us to company Ronix
6.Please call us 1-866-304-3265, 1-269-605-4904, help@efaru.com. We have local presence in Chicagoland, Southern California, Atlanta Georgia, South West Michigan, Houston and Dallas areas of Texas. We serve customers USA and Canada nationwide and internationally via web sessions and phone conferences (Skype is welcomed). We are working on Brazilian ERP consulting market in Sao Paulo since 2004
