Business Functionality
Continia Finance provides distinct and specialized modules that cater to various finance-related requirements, ensuring a tailored approach to your financial management. Each module is designed to seamlessly integrate into your existing workflow, allowing for a smooth transition and uninterrupted operations.
The modular structure enables you to address specific needs without overhauling your entire system, enhancing efficiency and productivity. Each of the modules represents a specific area of functionality, and you can choose to add any modules you want. You add these using the initial setup guide, which you can access straight from your Role Center.
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Not all features are available in all versions of Continia Finance. Refer to Comparison of Features by Continia Finance Version to see features available per version of Continia Finance.
Below you’ll find a description of each of the modules, along with an overview of their respective features.
Essential
With the mandatory Essential module, you get a complimentary set of tools crafted to facilitate your financial management. The module provides a range of features that enhance clarity, efficiency, and accuracy in your financial operations.
With the Essential module, you get the following key features:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Maintain original currency code in G/L entries | |
| Use ledger entry comments | |
| Create and use VAT key Codes | |
| Define and use Fast Posting Codes | |
| Print alternating shading | |
| Colored hyperlinks in reports | |
| Use extended features in Customer and Vendor Application page | |
| Use extended features for Pmt. Discounts in Customer and Vendor Application page | |
| Ability to use and display comments for each entry in G/L, customer, and vendor accounts | |
| Specify balance confirmation codes | |
| Specify dimensions for system postings | |
| Continia Hub | |
| CSV ports |
Associations
This module allows you to group customers or vendors into an association and reconcile your associations using the extended application function, which displays the open entries of a regulatory authority (customer) together in the extended application. This enables you to easily apply the payment amount of the regulatory authority to the corresponding open entries in a single step.
The Associations module includes the following key features:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Separate setup fields for associations | |
| Merge any number of customers or vendors into an association | |
| Link a customer with a vendor for clearing entries | |
| Display all open entries belonging to an association | |
| Create and manage associations through Association cards | |
| Integrate and check credit limits for associations in journals and documents | |
| Additional fields for managing associations | |
| Handle split postings | |
| Generate reminders including vendor ledger entries and association entries | |
| Create and manage links between customers and vendors | |
| Display current balances, net changes, and balances at specific dates for linked accounts | |
| View detailed statistics for associations, including credit limits and sales data |
G/L Open Entries
Enables you to post G/L accounts in open entries mode, allowing you to easily clear your accounts by building and posting open entries to your general ledger. The module simplifies bank account reconciliation, including handling transitory entries, accrued income, and prepaid expenses. Additionally, similar to customers and vendors, you can print retroactive open entries reports
The G/L Open Entries module includes the following key features:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Create of open entries for G/L accounts similar to those for customers and vendors | |
| Use the G/L Open Entries Setup page to configure the module for each company in Business Central | |
| Create open entries for new entries only or for all existing entries based on the G/L account balance | |
| Display hyperlinks to G/L accounts in blue in the "G/L Account – Open Entries" report | |
| Use the same or different currencies for entries within one application | |
| Activate/Deactivate the Build Open Entries option based on account balance and setup configuration | |
| Menu item to view G/L entries with remaining amounts, showing additional columns like Remaining Amount and Open status | |
| Apply open G/L entries similarly to customer/vendor entries, with integration to the Detailed Gen. Ledger Entries page | |
| Access detailed G/L entries from the "G/L Entries Rem. Amounts" page |
Extended Financial Reports
With the Extended Financial Reports module, you can streamline your year-end procedures and simplify the financial reporting process, providing accurate and comprehensive reports that offer deeper insights into your business's financial health. The module includes several useful features for businesses using financial reports in Business Central, offering enhanced flexibility through the use of account groups.
The Extended Financial Reports module includes the following key features:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Enhanced display of entries for each G/L account | |
| Improved display of (open) entries for each customer/vendor on the screen and in reports | |
| Display balancing accounts in the preview of extended entries, with special handling if there are multiple balancing accounts | |
| Display fixed asset numbers and names in the balancing account fields for two-line postings like depreciation | |
| Options to allow changes to external document numbers on G/L and customer and vendor entry cards as long as entries are open | |
| Additional fields and functions in the extended general ledger entries, such as balance, net change, balancing account info, and more | |
| Open and print the extended detailed trial balance report prefiltered on the G/L account number | |
| Printing of VAT entries overview for lines with set up account totals and a plausibility check based on the chart of accounts | |
| Setup for flexible column layout, including options to print names or numbers of monthly columns | |
| Availability of total-balance lists for G/L accounts, debtors, and creditors in DATEV layout, with filtering options and Excel output | |
| Ability to make purchase VAT entries in sales invoices and sales VAT entries in purchase invoices | |
| Enhancements to financial reports for balance statement creation, including detailed export to Excel and various filtering options | |
| Setup and display of tipping accounts for customers with credit balances and vendors with debit balances | |
| Option to export detailed financial report lines to Excel, with suppression of zero balances and customizable columns | |
| Validation and cumulative transfer of VAT entries, including handling of reverse charge VAT and proof of VAT account | |
| Cash Book – the cash book journal functionality previously available in OPplus, now integrated into Continia Finance for managing cash transactions |
Extended Fixed Assets
The module enables the use of fixed asset templates to facilitate the creation of new assets. Additionally, it streamlines the process of rounding book values by automatically adjusting depreciation amounts. You can also save time by posting quantities on your assets and partially retiring them.
With the Extended Fixed Assets module, you get access to the following key features:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Create and manage setup data for each company | |
| Define fixed asset templates to speed up the creation of new assets by predefining standard fields and asset depreciation books | |
| Acquisition value of fixed assets reduced by deducting payment discounts through purchase invoice payment. | |
| Activation of a depreciation posting on the date of asset acquisition for additional acquisition postings | |
| Retroactive depreciation postings on the starting date of regular depreciation for additional acquisitions within the same fiscal year. | |
| Automatic posting in the FA Gen. Journal and subsequent handling of acquisition postings | |
| Options for asset disposal, differentiating between scrapping and sales, with specific handling for scrapped assets | |
| Specification and management of asset quantities | |
| Partial disposal of assets, including the creation of new asset entries with reduced quantities and appropriate postings | |
| Functionality for reversing acquisition and sales postings | |
| Reversal of asset sales via credit memos, with automatic asset reversal |
Installment Payments
This module allows you to set up installment payment templates for various payment models, streamlining the payment process so you no longer will have to repeatedly define payment splits. It efficiently handles different payment structures, enhancing accuracy and consistency in financial operations. The flexibility of these templates also enables easy adaptation to changing payment terms and conditions.
The Installment Payments module gives you access to the following key features:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Define templates for different installment models to avoid repeatedly defining certain distribution processes | |
| Specify the exact allocation of future installments manually or using the automatic splitting function | |
| Create installment plans in sales and purchase documents (orders, invoices, credit notes) using templates or manually | |
| Preview how the installment plan will affect the entries created, only available if a template is defined | |
| Create an installment plan manually if the document is released, ensuring the remaining amount in the plan equals 0.00 | |
| After approval, view and modify the installment plan | |
| Define an associated installment in existing customer entries | |
| Reverse a posted installment within customer entries, reopening the originally posted invoice and balancing entry | |
| Generated customer entries of an installment are posted and displayed based on module setup preferences | |
| Ability to post installments when using different customer/vendor posting groups | |
| Use installments in journal lines |
Multi-Level Payment Discounts
The module helps you apply discount tiers, each with its own specific discount percentage and allows you to create and manage multiple levels of discounts tailored to different customer segments or purchase volumes. Additionally, it provides flexibility in adjusting discount tiers to suit changing market conditions or business strategies.
The Multi-Level Payment Discounts module gives you access to the following key features:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Specify default payment discount settings and additional payment discount levels | |
| Supports up to five payment discount levels beyond the default, with specific formulas and percentages for each | |
| Calculation of due dates and payment discount data based on document date plus the value date formula | |
| Automatically fills in respective fields in entries when posting an invoice or credit memo with assigned payment terms | |
| View and manage multilevel payment discount entries directly from customer and vendor documents | |
| Define and post multilevel payment discounts directly from any journal | |
| Drill-down functionality into posted payment discount levels from ledger entries | |
| Grant multilevel payment discounts retrospectively by creating corresponding records for entries | |
| Pre-calculates and displays payment discount values based on the discount term |
Factoring
The Factoring module facilitates the use of factoring as a source to secure financing or protect your liquidity. If you have chosen to sell receivables to a factoring company to avoid delayed incoming payments or even loss of receivables, the Factoring module is a convenient option. Tthe Factoring module lets you map the entire process from selecting open entries for creating factoring proposals to exporting them into files in the desired data formats and monitoring the exported receivables.
The Factoring module gives you access to the following key features:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Set up an unlimited number of factors. | |
| Pre-calculates and displays payment discount values based on the discount term | |
| Select which companies should participate in factoring | |
| Manage factoring in a dedicated customer | |
| Specify which customers should participate in factoring. | |
| Edit proposals before exporting them to the factor | |
| Implement various file structures | |
| Provide factors with files containing reconciled receivables | |
| Create any number of proposals for factoring |
Treasury
The Treasury module provides a comprehensive view of all payment-related data, enabling you to efficiently manage and monitor your financial transactions. With this module, you can access detailed information on bank balances, open entries, and G/L entries across multiple companies. This centralized approach allows for better oversight and control of your treasury operations, ensuring that you have all the necessary data at your fingertips. By consolidating this information, the Treasury module helps you streamline financial processes, improve cash flow management, and make informed decisions based on real-time financial insights.
The Treasury module gives you access to the following key features:
| Feature | Included |
|---|---|
| Cross-company views of all payment-relevant data including bank balances, open entries for customers and vendors, payment import journals, and payment proposals | |
| Select specific companies or all companies for data display | |
| Synchronizes ongoing movements and changes in data | |
| Restrict view to individual Treasury companies |