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The file settings

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A plan evolves: the bank asks for five years instead of three, the incorporation slips by a month. The file settings can be changed without recreating the file, and Fiplan announces what a reduction would leave outside the plan.

What it is for

The file's menu offers Dossier Settings. The window takes over the choices made at creation: the Dossier name, the Dossier Type, the Start Date, the Duration, the First exercise duration (from 1 to 24 months, with its closing date), the Reference Year (N-1), the Report Language, the report template, and the Deadline with its description — for example the handover to the notary or a meeting at the bank.

Existing entries are kept; the new periods are empty and ready to be filled in.

Steps

  1. Open the file, then its menu, and choose Dossier Settings.
  2. Change what needs to be changed.
  3. Click Save. If the new duration leaves amounts after the new end of the plan, Fiplan says so first, and you confirm or cancel.
The “Dossier Settings” window of Boulangerie Dupont, with the deadline “handover to the notary”.
The “Dossier Settings” window of Boulangerie Dupont, with the deadline “handover to the notary”.

Worked example · Boulangerie Dupont SRL

The bakery's plan covers three financial years, up to December 2029. If the duration is cut to two years, the new end falls in December 2028: Fiplan announces 84 amounts entered after that date, the last one in December 2029.

These amounts are not deleted: they leave the plan, and come back into it if the duration is lengthened.

Type of fileDuration allowed
Incorporationfrom 2 to 15 years
Existing company or other purposefrom 1 to 15 years

Pitfalls

An incorporation plan covers at least two financial years, and two years. The incorporation financial plan projects the balance sheet at 12 and at 24 months: a one-year duration is refused, as is a plan shorter than two years from incorporation (a short first financial year and two financial years).
The type is locked at the first line. An incorporation and an existing company do not start from the same point: as soon as a line is entered, the file's type no longer changes.
An incorporation has no reference year. Year N-1 exists only for an existing company: the database refuses a reference year on an incorporation file.
The deadline is not duplicated. A copy or a new version of the file starts again without a deadline.

What it changes

① Income statementDepends on the setting€0.00The duration and the first financial year change how the financial years are divided, and therefore each annual total.
② CashDepends on the setting€0.00An amount outside the plan also leaves the cash.
③ Balance sheetDepends on the setting€0.00The balance sheets follow the new financial years.

Source

Companies and Associations Code, art. 5:4, 6:5 and 7:3 (CSA / WVV): the incorporation financial plan, with a balance sheet projected at 12 and at 24 months and a budget over a period of at least two years from incorporation (§ 2, 5°, and § 3).

Fiplan convention (EditDossierDialog, durees-dossier.ts, montants_apres_fin): 1 to 15 years, at least 2 for an incorporation; the announcement of the amounts outside the plan; the type locked at the first line.