Description
Schedule Z 5A, sheet 2 of the German foreign trade regulationsstipulates that receivables and payables in respect of non-residentcompanies, (divided between associated and non-associated non-residentcompanies) are to be reported on this form to the respective statecentral bank, for forwarding to the German Central Bank.
As of January 1999, figures can be reported in euro. However, this isonly possible if the "Report in Euro" radio button is selected on theselection screen. All basket currencies are summarized in totals line888. All other currencies are summarized in line 899. There, thecurrency code for the following currencies must be entered in the"basket currencies" selection option:
- German Marks
- French Francs
- Italian Lire
- Spanish Pesetas
- Dutch Guilder
- Belgian Francs
- Austrian Shillings
- Portuguese Escudos
- Finnish Markka
- Irish Punt
- Luxembourg Francs
- Euro
The ISO codes of the above-mentioned currencies are proposed as thedefault entry.
Reports for 1998 and earlier are executed with the old form.
Any total of receivables or payables needs to be reported only if itexceeds the reporting exemption limit.
Receivables and payables are broken down into periods of up to one year,periods of more than one year, and down payments. Totals are displayedper country.
All customer/vendor items open at the key date are checked. Whether anaccount is receivable or payable is determined by the total of the openitems per customer account and by the currency in question. The onlydistinction made between currencies is that between local and foreigncurrency. Maturity is calculated from the difference between the duedate and the posting date.
Discounted and forfeited bills of exchange must not be reported.
The total of down payments is the sum of down payments and (optionally)of other advance payments which are determined by means of the downpayment posting key option. This could be the payment on account postingkey. All accounts whose affiliated company ID (VBUND) has not been setto "blank" are regarded as affiliated companies.
Data is output in the format laid down by the German Central Bank.Alternatively, it can be reported by DME (Data Medium Exchange) on disk,in which case the data is buffered. To store the data, a user-definedfile name has to be specified. The data is then loaded from the file toa PC disk using report RFAWVZ5P.
When submitting the EDP list, note that the German Central Bank onlyaccepts forms in DINA4 high format - you must therefore use a printerfont with 10 CPI and 12 CPI (characters per inch) or smaller for theoutput.

Precondition
You must make additional entries for the company code in Customizing.Check whether this has been done.
IF &DEVICE& = 'SCREEN'
Proceed
ENDIF
Before you can submit the DV list to the central bank in question, yourequire a special permit that you must apply for at the central bankprior to submitting the DV list for the first time.
Reporting data by disk
The report data is placed in a sequential file. Any missing alternativecountry keys are also reported in this file.
If an error occurs, correct the country table and rerun the program.
The Bundesbank also provides a PC program which you can use to generateor correct a report by PC.
Wherever possible, please view the report on disk rather than printingit out.