Download tax and accounting reports

In the Reports screen, you can download reports to help you keep track of tax compliance requirements and to maintain your accounting books in OnBalance.

  1. Click Reports in the navigation panel.
  2. In the Tax or Accounting section, select the period for which you want to generate the report.

  3. Click Download or Generate to select the report you want to view.

    SAS companies: When you generate a Journal Entries report, you can enter the Hash of your previous digital Journal Entry book in the Previous Hash field, and OnBalance will display that number in the header of the report.

  4. SICORE reports: In the panel that opens, click the option for the date range that you want to download, and click OK.

    Journal Entries reports: In the panel that opens, enter the dates for the report, the initial page number (or modify the number), and the previous Hash (if desired), and then click Download & Close.

  5. Optional: Click Print to download the PDF for local storage or to print the report.

    Note: You must have Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view and print the PDFs. If you have difficulty opening a PDF, you might need to download and install the latest version of the Adobe Reader from the Adobe Reader download site.

Notes

  • SICORE report: This report opens as a .TXT file, so that you can import the information to SIAp.
  • VAT tax return report: You can preview the data that will be included in the VAT tax return report and manually enter some of the data. This report opens as an Excel file.
  • If you do not have accounting enabled, all reports open in an Excel spreadsheet, except the SICORE report.
  • If you have accounting enabled, all tax reports (except SICORE) open in Excel and accounting reports open as PDF files.
  • You can open and close periods by clicking Open / Close Period in the Reports screen.
  • When you open a closed period, all of the following periods that were also closed will be opened as well.
  • When you close a period, all of the preceding periods that were opened will be closed as well.

The availability of some or all of these features depends on your OnBalance contract and/or configuration.