Preparing Data Media for Audit Submission
According to the principles to ensure the due maintenance and preservation of books, records and documents in electronic form (GoBD, formerly GDPdU), the German Ministry of Finance (BMF) is empowered to audit taxpayers' accounting records using one of these methods: Direct Access (Z1), Indirect Access (Z2), or Data Media Transfer (Z3). The first two methods (Z1 and Z2) can be provided in CloudSuite Industrial by setting group authorizations to forms for users in the predefined Auditor group.
The GoBD Data Media Transfer Report form is provided in the Germany Localization to comply with the Z3 access requirements. Using the options on this form, you can provide the BMF with the records that are required to evaluate the data. The relevant tax data is formatted according to the interface specification for the IDEA Data Analysis software published by CaseWare Analytics. Report data files in CSV format are generated along with a metadata index file in XML format. The index file describes the structure of each data file.
To set up the media for submission to auditors: