CaseWare updates

• Mapping Configuration tool
  • A new dropdown button is added in the Export tab of the Mapping Configuration tool. You can now choose which mapping file (Financial and/or Tax) you want to save to re-use in future engagements.
• Layout improvements in the Financial Statements document.

• Updated for Working Papers 2022 (installation of Working Papers 2022 is required)
• eCDF export
  • Added support for 2023 eCDF forms
  • Bugfix regarding captions in use that are hidden
  • Bugfix regarding incorrect or missing validation errors
• Dashboard
  • Cloudbridge
    • Improved integration with CaseWare Lux FinTax
    • Added functionality to upload external files (pdf, doc/docx, xls/xlsx, csv, png, jpg, txt)
  • Added a Support tab with helpdesk and academy information
  • Added link to release notes for newer versions
• Note updates
  
  • Derivative financial instruments
    
    • Added Excel loading functionality to populate foreign exchange contracts through the use of an integrated Excel file
    • Recorded variation columns are no longer printed when not used
    • Bugfix regarding spacing
  • Movements on the reserves and profit and loss items / Capital and reserves
    • Added setting to include all capital and reserves items
      • The table will expand and additional subtitles are added
      • Other standard notes regarding capital or reserves in the document will collapse by default
      • Note references in the balance sheet will adjust automatically
    • Added setting to include a Total column to the table
  • Financial assets
    • Added N/A option through right click for new disclosed participations without published data available
    • Added alphanumeric option through right click on disclosed participations 
    • Bugfix regarding incorrect validation error due to hidden PY data
  • Intangible and Tangible assets
    • Enabled note setting to show or hide net book value subtotals
    • Bugfix regarding incorrect validation error due to hidden PY data
  • Formation expenses: Added setting to include PY column
  • General information: Modified English translation of legal form (SARL)
  • Balance sheet and profit and loss account by entity/compartment: Default layout is now applied for new engagements
  • Capital investment subsidies: Improved table layout
  • Creditors: Bugfix related to incorrect signs displayed
  • Gross profit or loss: Bugfix regarding a row not included when printing
• Other
  • Improved integration with Caseware Cloud
  • Overall styling improvements on the financial statements
  • Translation improvements
  • Bugfix regarding validation errors in Entity Information
  • Bugfix regarding Audit report incorrectly shown in the Table of Contents

• Subscribed capital note:
  • Total nominal value per share has been removed from the share classes table
  • Values in the share classes table are transferred and cleared accordingly when a year end close is performed
• Notes Other external expenses and Gross profit or loss: Added option to flip the sign or only use debit/credit values for each row
• Notes Financial assets, derivative financial instruments and freeform 4: Bugfix related to inconsistent date formatting for users with US regional date settings
• Bugfix related to eCDF headers when printed in PDF
• Improved Cloudbridge functionality to handle special characters in account descriptions

• Added validation check on the company size selection
• Updated legal form abbreviations
• Bugfix related to eCDF financial statement styling
• Creditors note: Zero values added to empty table cells
• Movements on the reserves and profit and loss items note
  
  • Date of incorporation listed as opening balance date for new entities
  • Table headings corrected according to the used financial year/period type

• Updated for Working Papers 2021 (installation of Working Papers 2021 is required)
• Integration of Cloudbridge to migrate information and financials to upcoming full Cloud Lux GAAP solutions
• eCDF export (EXP)
  • Added support for 2022 eCDF forms
  • Added validation check regarding invalid currencies
  • PDF export location was changed to Financials folder
• Note updates
  • Intangible-, Tangible-, and Financial assets: Added functionality to include prior year balances
  • Share premium: Added dynamic table functionality to include custom rows
  • Gross profit or loss: Added validation check
  • Financial assets: Aligned wording with balance sheet captions
  • Freeform notes 6 and 7: Added functionality to include prior year balances
  • Consolidation note: Default lay-out set to one column
  • Subscribed capital:
    • Authorised capital no longer disclosed for Sarl
    • Bugfix regarding date language
  • Off balance sheet commitments: Bugfix related to hidden prior year information
  • Freeform note 5: Bugfix related to landscape orientation
  • Formation expenses: Bugfix related to incorrect balances
• Other
  • Added firm setting to turn off internet calls
  • Multiple note references now display chronologically in the Financial Statements
  • Enabled default pagebreak after General Information note
  • Netinc is now automatically assigned without using automapping
  • Grouping numbers were removed from unassignable mappings
  • Bugfix related to paragraph width in the Management report
  • Bugfix related to incorrect negative balance sheet total

• Included additional mandatory fields in the eCDF XML export
• Management report is removed from the Table of Contents for small entities
• Minor styling enhancements to the eCDF forms
• Minor mapping modification to prevent signs to flip in the notes
• Bugfix regarding a lay out issue that could occur when printing financial statements in eCDF lay out with prior year hidden
• Bugfix in the tangible assets note regarding the gross book value of "Payments on account and tangible assets in the course of construction"
• Financial assets note
  • Improved the presentation of multiple currencies for listed participations
  • Bugfix regarding skipped rows for value adjustments
• Subscribed capital note
  • Replaced total nominal value for share classes with average nominal value per share
  • Nominal value per share for share classes is never rounded
  • Opening balance shows as at the year begin date
• Share premium note
  • Bugfix related to the page break
  • Opening balance shows as at the year begin date

• Dashboard optimized for use with the latest Working Papers 2020 version
• Fixed incorrect presentation of the abridged profit and loss account for 2019 engagements
• Fixed rare issue that would generate an invalid XML file for 2020 engagements
• Note "Off balance sheet commitments" by default discloses that there are none to be reported
• Other minor fixes and improvements
  • Table related to participations in other undertakings in note "Financial assets" is optimized to span multiple pages
  • Default references in the profit and loss accounts now include notes "Gross profit or loss" and "Other external expenses"
  • Default sorting order optimized for the notes
  • Use of the internal management report shown on the Table of Contents
  • Wording logic fixed in the management report default library
  • Fixed settings for French and German versions of the note "Subsequent events"

• Fix regarding an issue that may occur when exporting XML files in 2021 to be deposited at the eCDF portal, for engagements with a year begin date in 2019 or older

Important: V4 of the CaseWare Lux GAAP template can no longer be used to create engagement files with a year begin date in 2019 or older. All new engagement files will have PCN2020 included. Pre-existing engagement files will be prompted to convert the mapping when the year begin date is set to 2020 or later. We will make a blank PCN2009 engagement file available for download that can be used to create a PCN2009 engagement file while having this latest version installed.

• Updated for Working Papers 2020 (installation of Working Papers 2020 is required)
  • Integration with our AnalyticsAI application
• Mapping conversion to PCN2020
  • All documents and all financial notes have been updated to work with the new official eCDF 2020 mapping tables
  • The eCDF XML export is now updated and approved for XML 2.0 filing
  • New integrated 2020 eCDF validations
• New widget added to the dashboard to consult training courses from our online CaseWare Academy.
• Entity Information (PERM)
  • New option to choose Commissaire aux Comptes as auditor
  • Added legal form “Société en Commandite Spéciale” (SCSP)
  • Address fields more clearly displayed
  • Legal form displayed in French
  • Guidance regarding date ranges was added
• Financial Statements (FSL)
  • Option to display Audit report in French in the Table of content
  • Repeated note titles on subsequent pages are now supported when using freeform notes to extend another note
  • eCDF layout printing now supported with prior year hidden
  • Improved rounding functionality
  • New standard notes
    • Gross profit or loss
    • Other external expenses
    • Emoluments granted to the members of the management and supervisory bodies and commitments in respect of retirement pensions for former members of those bodies
    • Advances and loans granted to the members of the management and supervisory bodies
    • Off balance sheet commitments
  • Note updates
    • Subscribed capital: The use of different share classes is now supported in a new table lay-out
    • Financial assets: Table with undertakings now supports multiple currencies
    • Intangible-, tangible- and financial assets: Tables under the fair value model are redesigned in the back-end to correctly display balances when fair value adjustments are recorded in the profit and loss account
    • Accounting policy for (in)tangible assets: rows are no longer printed if empty
    • Accounting policy for Debts renamed to Creditors
    • Share premium: Table is separately collapsible and dates added in the table
    • Movements on the reserves and profit and loss items
      • Empty rows are no longer printed
      • Bug fixed where deleted rows cause an incorrect validation
    • Staff: Table is separately collapsible
    • Net turnover: Collapses when a detailed profit and loss account is used
    • Other operating expenses: bugfix additional content paragraph
    • Minor wording, styling and spacing changes/corrections in multiple notes
• eCDF Export (EXP)
  • Added the operating name in the document header

• Release of our online CaseWare Academy
  • CaseWare Lux GAAP - General training. This online training will teach you all the basic functionalities to start using the CaseWare Lux GAAP solution. Certification is granted upon completion.
• Send us an e-mail at info@caseware.be to enroll in the CaseWare Lux GAAP training bundle. All future courses will automatically become available in your account.