Tax Date Based Non Leading Ledger BS, TB and PnL

Question

Hi Gurus
In our scenario, we will be using the Leading Ledger for Accrual Accounting, while the Non Leading Ledger will be used for Cash Accounting. It is required, for management effectiveness to capture transactions on accrual basis (leading ledger), but as far as tax reporting is concerned, it will be on cash basis (non leading ledger).
Scenario is:
Vendor Invoice comes on Jul 1, 2009 with terms of payment as say 45 days. The due date is mid August. In accrual (Leading Ledger) accounting, we will book the invoice on Jul 1, 2009 (posting date) with 45 days credit period, and due date as Aug 14, 2009. Now, as per cash accounting (Non Leading Ledger) we should only book this invoice on Aug 14, 2009,when the cash outflow will take place. However, since in New GL posting automatically happens for Leading and Non Leading ledgers, the NL document also will have the same posting date as LL document (Jul 1, 2009). The TDS/ Service Tax etc. however will be deducted only on payment, in August, which is a different fiscal period (as well as different tax reporting period).
My question is, is there a way to use TAX DATE or some other date field for Non Leading Ledger, and have the tax reports generated on that basis? Mind you, the purpose of cash accounting is for statutory and tax purposes. So we need to be able to draw financial statements based on cash accounting.
Would greately apprecaite if any of you can help me guide to a possible solution. I have the following options:
1 - Create a report that will use (somehow) a logic to capture the transactions based on tax date
2 - Find a User Exit to capture the actual cash flow date and use it to generate the tax/ statutory reports
3 - Use Tax Date field to store the cash flow date and use it to generate the tax/ statutory reports
Any suggestions welcome!
Regards
Mandar

Answer 1

Hi,
using different ledgers for parallel accounting ( eg IFRS, US-GAAP, Indian-GAAP...) is not a matter of tax procedure assigned to a country and company code(s) assigned to a country.
The tax law for a country/tax jurisdiction code does not depend on which reporting standard you use (IFRS, US-GAAP, Indian-GAAP...).
Best regards, Christian