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Getting started with Skatt & Bokslut

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Things to consider before you start

We recommend you not to do any profit disposition before you start to work in the program.
When the profit/loss planning is made, any closing entries for profit/loss, yearly tax or changes in tax allocation reserves will be reversed so that calculations and bookings can be made.

The debited preliminary tax should be bookkept on account 2518.

Tax allocation reserves must be bookkept on accounts in the range 2120-2129. Make sure those accounts are the same between different periods/years.

Employer's contribution should be bookkept against a debt account, i.e. 2731 and a cost account, i.e. 7510.

Manage your fixed assets register in Visma eEkonomi. This will make the reconciliation much easier.

Exported closing entries to Visma eEkonomi, can be saved in a separate journal serie. You do this setting in Visma eEkonomi, under Settings - Company settings - Accounting settings - Journal series - Closing entries.

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For accounting offices, start in Visma Advisor

If you're working in an accounting office with Visma Advisor, we recommend that you have the following set up before you start.

Visma Skatt & Bokslut Pro is activated for the client.

All co-workers that should be involved should be added.

Add the checklists and checkpoints that you want to have active and that should be updated automatically when working with the customer.
These events in Visma Skatt & Bokslut Pro can update tasks in Visma Advisor.

  • BS accounts marked as done

  • IS accounts marked as done

  • All items in the annual report is marked as Done

  • All tax forms are marked as Done

  • Period locked/unlocked

  • Financial year locked/unlocked

  • Tax return - Submitted to Skatteverket for signing

  • Tax return - Signed at Skatteverket

Make sure that the correct company type is selected and that its Registration date is correct.

Make sure that the correct financial year is selected in Visma Advisor

Activate Visma Skatt & Bokslut Pro from Visma Advisor

Add a new customer

Add a new task

Connect checkpoints to a task

Connect task to customer

How Visma Skatt & Bokslut Pro interacts with other products

Be smart with periodic reconciliations!

We recommend you to always activate Period closing to enable periodic reconciliations. With such, you gain lots of time when it's time for year-end closing. You'll also be able to give timely advices to your clients and will discover errors or mistakes earlier. A smart way to distribute your workload over the whole year and at the same time increase the quality.

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Reconcile accounts

In Visma Skatt & Bokslut Pro, a natural starting point is the reconciliation under Period closing/Year end closing - Reconciliation BS or Analysis IS. A reconciliation involves comparing the bookkept value of each account against statements from other sources, such as a bank statement, where the same transactions have been recorded.

Quality WILL make you more efficient- we promise!

  • Use the checklists! This will make it a lot easier to create and edit your slide shows. If you are a bureau, you can use templates and save a set of checklists as a template to be used for multiple clients, saving a significant amount of time as you won't have to set up the checklists individually for each of your clients.

  • Use the built-in, automated checks to look for deviations. They will be run automatically and warn as soon as something falls out of the ordinary - not necessarily wrong, but not normal.
    The reconciliation process will be more secure and save you lots of time. Use them as they are out of the box, adapt them or create your own. As a bureau, you can also here save controls as templates and apply them on multiple clients.

  • Make sure to keep all accounts reconciled, with appendices.

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Checklists

Automatic checks

Templates for checklists

Templates for auto checks

Transaction analysis

Reko/Rex in Visma Skatt & Bokslut Pro

Transaction analysis in Skatt & Bokslut

Start by reconciling the accounts in the balance sheet so that the balance in the bookkeeping is correct. By using Visma eEkonomi, you'll get lots of help with automatic reconciliation and documentation. You use reconciliation appendices where necessary and facilitate your work. You can also of course also use your own, external appendices that you create easily by dragging and dropping them on the account or account group. This is useful when you have external sources for transactions, such as bank statements.

The appendices for Real estate tax and fees, Special employer's contribution, Tax on return and Preliminary tax should be created before the profit/loss planning to make the process optimal.

Don't be afraid to elaborate and experiment

In the profit/loss planning under Tax calculation, some rebookings are made automatically. Therefore, it can be useful to use as a part of your reconciliation process. Nothing is final until you lock the year.

Overview, reconciliation BS

List of appendices in Visma Skatt & Bokslut Pro

Sync your accounting data with Visma eEkonomi

External appendices

Work with external appendices in Visma Skatt & Bokslut Pro

VAT reconciliation

Employer's contribution and tax deduction reconciliation

Reconcile automatically created appendices from Visma eEkonomi

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Profit/loss planning

The result planning under Tax calculation - Profit/loss planning is the place where you see the different outcomes for your tax planning alternatives. Use one of our suggested alternatives, or create an alternative of your own. You can always adjust the calculations under Tax calculation - Tax adjustments, among other, the non-deductible expenses. All bookings will be updated when you select an alternative and the values are transferred to the corresponding form under Tax forms.

Use your pedagogical superpowers!

The profit/loss planning gives a good overview of different outcomes and consequenses of the tax planning alternatives. If you are working in an accounting office, make sure to use in discussions with your customers.

Tax calculation for limited companies and economic associations

Basis for tax return for private individuals

Deductions in declaration

Tax computation

Tax arrears/refund

Additional depreciation of machinery/equipment

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Create the annual report

We have collected all the functions you need in one place to create the annual report according to K2 and K3 under Year-end closing - Annual report. Make sure to use the checklists. This will make it a lot easier to create and edit your slide shows.
The names of the board members and the auditor can be fetched from Bolagsverket directly from the Signatures page. Under the Submission page, you see if the annual report contains any formal errors and you easily run a check against Bolagsverket to ensure that the information is valid. When you have completed the annual report and have marked it as complete, the checklist in Visma Advisor is automatically updated.

Overview, annual report

Warnings and errors when checking the annual report

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Sign the annual report

With the built-in integration with Visma Sign, you manage the signing of the annual report and the annual general meeting protocol under Year-end closing - Annual report - Digital sign. The signatories receive a notification via e-mail and can identify themselves with BankID before signing the document. You have full control over the entire signing process and you see the ongoing status of each signatory. The signing dates are automatically entered on the Signatures document as the signatories sign. When all signatures are done, you will receive a confirmation via e-mail.

What dates are important for the annual report?

Digital sign

Digital sign with Visma Sign - Demo

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Complete with tax return appendices

INK2 and related tax appendices should already be completed, but you have the possibility to complementary tax appendices you need and fill them in. Under Tax Forms, you see the completed result. Make sure to get some other eyes on the result to ensure the quality.

Tax appendices (Limited company)

Tax appendices (Sole proprietorship)

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Submit the declaration and annual report digitally

Once the annual report is complete, a copy and the financial statements approval is submitted digitally from Year-end closing - Annual report - Submission. Any auditor's report is uploaded by the auditor independently from Visma Skatt & Bokslut Pro. It's only when these documents have been signed on Bolagsverket that the annual report is submitted. The persons who will sign the financial statements approval and the auditor's report (if applicable) will receive an email with a link. They click on the link, log in using BankID and then approve the annual report by signing the documents digitally. The signing must be done within 21 days.

The tax forms are automatically pre-filled with what you have previously entered and under Year-end closing - Tax forms, you have them all collected in one place. From Submission, the program checks the tax return for common errors and when all is complete, you submit the tax return, together with all related tax forms to Skatteverket from here via the Income statement 2 - submit (API) submission method. For the tax return to be considered as submitted, the signatory or declaration agent need to log in to Mina Sidor at Skatteverket and sign the document.

Tax forms

Submission to Skatteverket

Tax forms for private individuals

Submission to Skatteverket

Complete your tax return in Skatt & Bokslut

Digital submission of annual report

Så funkar digital inlämning

Digital submission and signing

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Transfer closing entries and lock period/year

When your work is completed, you lock the period or year from the start page and transfer the closing entries back to Visma eEkonomi with a single click from Year-end closing - Closing entries. The corresponding checkpoints are automatically updated in Visma Advisor and the period will be locked in Visma eEkonomi. Exported closing entries to Visma eEkonomi, can be saved in a separate journal serie. You do this setting in Visma eEkonomi, under Settings - Company settings - Accounting settings - Journal series - Closing entries.

Reconciliation periods

Transfer of information between periods and years

Closing entries

Automatic checkpoint update in Visma Advisor

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Present and analyse your work

By using Visma Ekonomiöversikt you can visualise it with clear and easy-to-understand charts and reports. Export the data from Maintenance - Export data and import it to Visma Ekonomiöversikt. When you are using Visma eEkonomi, the data is already there. You can of course also use the built-in reports from Report Center, for example, print the annual report, share it in Visma Ekonomiöversikt and use it when discussing with your customers.

Use Visma Ekonomiöversikt to present your data

Getting started with Visma Ekonomiöversikt

 

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