Russian NAV localization: dive into details

When planning an international roll-out to Russia, a company should consider the fact that Russian localization is one of the most complex localizations in the world. It can be compared to Brazil and India by the quantity of modified and added objects. Due to the differences and specifics of Russian accounting legislation, the most changes are done in the area of VAT treatments, currency exchange rate differences, advance payments, and variety of additional print forms and reporting forms in native Russian language that are required by law. The localization has been developed by Microsoft quite extensively in the version 4.0, and since that it has been available in all subsequent versions. Currently, NAV 2016 is fully localized for Russian legislation, and Awara IT Solutions has been deeply involved into the TAP testing of the functionality. Here I would indicate more in details the major differences and specifics.

The range of objects that are added to the W1 version of the database lays mainly in 12,000 and 14,000 ids range. It is valid for all the objects, as well as the fields, added to the standard W1 tables. Thus, if you wonder about a certain field if it is a standard or added by localization, first check the id number.

You can find the description of basic localization features in the official Microsoft file on CustomerSource, where all the different country localizations are listed:

https://mbs.microsoft.com/downloads/customer/NAV/Documentation/LocalFunctionality/nav_ru_w1.zip .

Here I can mention that only the packed size of that file with description of changes is 1.8 Mbytes, whereas the next biggest official localization - Indian description - is "only" 0.5 Mbytes :-).

Here is the list of main changes and additions:

Correspondence of accounts – special booking of debits and credits of transactions in addition to standard G/L Entries

Main operational accounting reports: account analysis, turnover sheets, G/L Correspondence Cross-Reference Report with source document overview

Russian formats of addresses: All-Russian classifier of addresses import

Agreements functionality: Register of agreements, counteragents operations within agreements , including payment schedules, price lists, credit limits

Bank and Cash: Bank details, bank account statements import, Cash orders approval, print forms and operational reports

VAT accounting – processing input VAT, VAT Reports (Book of Purchases, Book of Sales with additional sheets)

Currency exchange rate differences in bookkeeping and tax accounting

Responsible Employess – registration of expense reports, commodities and materials purchase through resp. employees, balance control for every resp. employee, closing through bank, cash desk or salary payment

Reversing entries – red/black storno

Tax accounting – tax registers, standardized expenses, permanent tax liabilities and assets, profit tax calculation

Future Expenses

Fixed Assets

Payroll & HR Salary Calculation, Print forms

Statutory reports - including electronic reporting (Russian-specific reports generator)

Intercompany accounting

In the later blog posts I will describe in more details all topics, mentioned above, so you can get better understanding on the possibilities of international roll-outs.