| Version: | D |
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| Release: | 04B |
| Contr. Agency: | UN |
| Revision: | 2 |
| Date: | 2004-11-23 |
| SOURCE: | TBG12 Accounting and Auditing, Registration, Financial Information Services |
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For general information on UN standard message types see UN Trade Data Interchange Directory, UNTDID, Part 4, Section 2.3, UN/ECE UNSM General Introduction |
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This message also occurs in the following versions of this standard: D97B, D98A, D98B, D99A, D99B, D00A, D00B, D01A, D01B, D01C, D02A, D02B, D03A, D03B, D04A, D04B |
This specification provides the definition of the Enterprise accounting information message (INFENT) to be used in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between trading partners involved in administration, commerce and transport.
A message used to exchange enterprise related accounting information between enterprises, public or private bodies and whoever may use it for the purpose of accounting, auditing, cost accounting, consolidation, reporting, financial analysis, administrations, etc.
The Enterprise accounting information message may be used for both national and international applications. It is based on universal practice related to administration, commerce and transport, and is not dependent on the type of business or industry.
The economic partners of an enterprise require information, most of which is of a common nature. In order, therefore, to cope with this phenomenon, the enterprise - referred to as sender - may establish a data base - known as accounting information of enterprise - containing all the information of use to its partners, for various intervening bodies - referred to as recipients - who may be as follows: customers, suppliers, associated and other companies of the group, chartered accountants, auditors, legal, fiscal and financial advisers, lawyers, tax offices, the offices of court clerks, banks and financial houses, Public Authorities, etc.
The preparation of the financial statements of an enterprise is a continuous chain which enables the trial balance and the financial statements to be obtained predominantly based on the accounting entries reflecting its activity and the chart of accounts.
An enterprise accounting information is a piece of information or an event brought to the attention of an official, a private individual or a public body specifying a reference, a date, a time, a period, a free text, a name and address, a quantity, an accounting and administrative characteristic, a percentage, a legal status of organization or an amount in accordance with trading, financial, accounting, legal, social or fiscal relations, or in compliance with legislative provisions or regulations.
An enterprise sends enterprise accounting information message in accordance to a predefined index. Each index value corresponds to an enterprise accounting information.
The message INFENT contains information concerning enterprise information for a given period. The frequency of data collection ranges from daily to annually.
See UNTDID, Part 4, Chapter 2.3 UN/ECE UNSM - General Introduction, Section 1.
See UNTDID, Part 4, Chapter 2.3 UN/ECE UNSM - General Introduction, Section 2.
This section should be read in conjunction with the segment table which indicates mandatory, conditional and repeating requirements.
A service segment starting and uniquely identifying a message. The message type code for the Enterprise accounting information message is INFENT.
Note: Enterprise accounting information messages conforming to this document must contain the following data in segment UNH, composite S009:
| Data element | 0065 | INFENT |
| 0052 | D | |
| 0054 | 04B | |
| 0051 | UN |
A segment identifying the type of enterprise accounting information which is transmitted and provide its identification number.
A segment containing the opening and closing dates of the accounting period and the preparation date of the message.
A segment containing the number of the information file linked to the message and its version number.
A segment providing currencies which are specific to the enterprise accounting information message.
A segment with free text, in coded or clear form, for the purpose of providing additional clarification solely concerning the summary section. In computer-to-computer exchanges such texts will normally require the receiver to process this segment manually.
A segment group giving information on sender, recipient and intermediary.
A segment to identify a party.
A segment to provide references which are specific to the concerned party.
A segment identifying the bank account of the related party.
A group of segments to specify contacts and related communication numbers.
A segment to provide contacts related to the party.
A segment to provide communication numbers of the contact.
A group of segments to provide accounting, fiscal, social or legal characteristics of the enterprise accounting information message.
A segment to identify a characteristic.
A segment to provide the value of the characteristic.
SG5-SG7 A segment group providing the expected information related to the enterprise. The index value contained in the index segment determines how informations in the subordinate segments in the same group, should be interpreted.
A segment providing the sequential number of the provided information in the message.
A segment to identify a relevant index.
A segment to provide reference related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment to provide amount related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment to provide text related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment providing a date or time or period related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment providing a quantity related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment to provide currency related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment to provide a percentage related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment identifying the bank account for payment.
A segment to provide account related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment group to identify a party related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment to identify a party.
A group of segments to specify contacts and provide communication numbers.
A segment providing contact information related to the party identified in the preceding segment.
A segment providing communication information related to the party or the contact.
A group of segments to provide accounting, fiscal, social, legal characteristics of the enterprise related to information specified in the index segment.
A segment to identify a characteristic.
A segment to provide the value of the characteristic.
A segment group to provide authentication information.
A segment to provide authentication results.
A segment to provide the date of the authentication.
A service segment ending a message, giving the total number of segments in the message (including the UNH & UNT) and the control reference number of the message.
| AUT | Authentication result | |
| BGM | Beginning of message | |
| CAV | Characteristic value | |
| CCI | Characteristic/class id | |
| COM | Communication contact | |
| CPT | Account identification | |
| CTA | Contact information | |
| CUX | Currencies | |
| DTM | Date/time/period | |
| FII | Financial institution information | |
| FTX | Free text | |
| IND | Index details | |
| MOA | Monetary amount | |
| NAD | Name and address | |
| PCD | Percentage details | |
| QTY | Quantity | |
| RFF | Reference | |
| SEQ | Sequence details | |
| UNH | Message header | |
| UNT | Message trailer |
| ├─UNH Message header | ×1 | (M) |
| ├─BGM Beginning of message | ×1 | (M) |
| ├─DTM Date/time/period | ×99 | (M) |
| ├─RFF Reference | ×99 | (C) |
| ├─CUX Currencies | ×99 | (C) |
| ├─FTX Free text | ×1 | (C) |
| ├─Segment Group 1 | ×99 | (M) |
| │─├─NAD Name and address | ×1 | (M) |
| │─├─RFF Reference | ×9 | (C) |
| │─├─FII Financial institution information | ×1 | (C) |
| │─└─Segment Group 2 | ×99 | (C) |
| │───├─CTA Contact information | ×1 | (M) |
| │───└─COM Communication contact | ×9 | (C) |
| ├─Segment Group 3 | ×99 | (C) |
| │─├─CCI Characteristic/class id | ×1 | (M) |
| │─└─CAV Characteristic value | ×1 | (C) |
| ├─Segment Group 4 | ×99999 | (M) |
| │─├─SEQ Sequence details | ×1 | (M) |
| │─├─IND Index details | ×1 | (M) |
| │─├─RFF Reference | ×9 | (C) |
| │─├─MOA Monetary amount | ×99 | (C) |
| │─├─FTX Free text | ×99 | (C) |
| │─├─DTM Date/time/period | ×9 | (C) |
| │─├─QTY Quantity | ×9 | (C) |
| │─├─CUX Currencies | ×9 | (C) |
| │─├─PCD Percentage details | ×9 | (C) |
| │─├─FII Financial institution information | ×9 | (C) |
| │─├─CPT Account identification | ×9 | (C) |
| │─├─Segment Group 5 | ×9 | (C) |
| │─│─├─NAD Name and address | ×1 | (M) |
| │─│─└─Segment Group 6 | ×99 | (C) |
| │─│───├─CTA Contact information | ×1 | (M) |
| │─│───└─COM Communication contact | ×9 | (C) |
| │─└─Segment Group 7 | ×99 | (C) |
| │───├─CCI Characteristic/class id | ×1 | (M) |
| │───└─CAV Characteristic value | ×1 | (C) |
| ├─Segment Group 8 | ×1 | (C) |
| │─├─AUT Authentication result | ×1 | (M) |
| │─└─DTM Date/time/period | ×1 | (C) |
| └─UNT Message trailer | ×1 | (M) |