subject: Sap Business One Multinational Corporation Erp System With Connection To Brazil [print this page] When you are crossing US borders amazing things are waiting for you to be discovered. We were learning in college that international GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) are respected worldwide. However each sovereign country has its own legislation especially related to taxation and reporting. Brazil speaks Portuguese with its own dialect and if you expect to implement something like Dynamics GP in your office in Sao Paulo or Campinas then you probably should put aside some time for better evaluation and homework. Lets begin with regulations and see how they could be met in compliance:
1.SPED or Public Digital Bookkeeping System. The idea is to make public for lawyers, CPA and tax collectors communities all corporate tax related documents including AR and AP invoices as well as GL financial statements. SPED makes money laundry really difficult in this country as well as gives it a prestige of being transparent for possible corporate frauds. Reporting should be filed in XML format over the internet monthly and annually. Plus there is standard SPED chart of accounts and your corporate GL accounts should be mapped to it accordingly. Could you imagine how difficult it is to realize these requirements in ERP software? Is it done in SQP B1? Yes it is done through ISV channel add-on. If you would like to know the idea about the software license cost then we have to mention that it is more expensive comparing to professional user license. You may contract CPA firm to report on your behalf but these services are even more expensive as they have to review your invoices every month to prepare the XML file
2.Brazilian Portuguese User Interface. There are several brand name ERP vendors in Sao Paulo including Microsoft Dynamics AX, Oracle Financials and SAP. Plus there are several locally programmed packages where we would like to mention Microsiga. SAP BO is probably the most close to small business. It doesnt mean however that this is only something for starters
Lets take few questions from the internet:
Q: We are small organization with the attributes of multinational corporation. We are opening our small locations in Brazil, China and Russia. We own Microsoft Small Business Financials (Great Plains) licenses in the United States and we would like to use the same system worldwide. Could you comment on that?
A: International expansion has associated cost. It is not a secret that popular ERP packages in the United States often do not support Unicode (Chinese, Korean or Japanese hieroglyphs). If you are opening the office in Campinas automakers business park, then you should not expect to program Public Digital Bookkeeping System in-house. Try to get advantage from what was already developed and came through Quality Assurance process
Q: We already have B1 implemented in Rio de Janeiro. Now we are opening facility along Novorizhskoye shosse in Moscow region of the Russian Federation. We have reasonable experience in picking mid-market ERP platform for our international subsidiaries. Could you comment on Russian ERP software market?
A: Sure the problems in RF are associated with strict tax agency reporting based on fixed chart of accounts. Here accounts are numbered. For example the account 20 is main production (manufacturing). Business One is popular in Russia but it is rather used for managerial reporting while financial statements (balance sheet) are filed through 1C bukhgalteria
Some comments. Each country is different and you should expect localization issues. We have tried to give you an introduction to Brazil, Russia and China.
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