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Situation:

The report "Rollforward deferred taxes" cannot be opened if the current period has no prior period or the currently relevant company (possibly also in the group structure) does not exist in the prior period.

Solution:

The report can also be opened if it is a new company or no prior period relationship has been maintained.

Situation:

The GTC uses the Log4j library to generate log files.

Log4j version 1.x is not officially supported anymore. Security vulnerabilities have been uncovered and are no longer secured in the version.

Solution:

The Log4j library has been updated to the latest available version 2.16.0.

Configuring log levels at runtime is no longer supported by this version. Therefore, this option is no longer available in the administration area.

Situation:

If a user performs a transaction data copy without authorisation "Master Data: Countries - Read", the GTC runs into an error when saving the data.

Solution:

The user does not need the above right to perform a transaction data copy.

Situation:

If flag SHOW_OCI_AT_SUMMARY is activated, entries in dialogue "Others", block "Change in consolidation (cur. year)", rows "Temporary differences" (P&L as well as OCI) are doubled in dialogue "Summary", block "Deferred taxes summary", rows "P&L Debit/(Credit)" and "OCI", column "Change".

Solution:

The values in column "Change" are correct.

Situation:

Feedback from our customers has indicated that the functions in the enhanced mapping could be expanded.

Solution:

1. additional check conditions have been implemented. Details can be found in the separately available documentation for the enhanced mapping.
2. the import into the data transfer is now possible with assembled target items.
3. it is possible to import into the tax balance sheet column of the B/S comparison.

Situation:

The enhanced bulk import of companies does not work, whenever it involves a filter with respect to materiality or reporting dimension and the subgroup company itself does not fullfil the filter condition.

Solution:

The enhanced bulk import of companies works with a filter for materiality or reporting dimension independent from properties of the selected subgroup company.

Situation:

If the upper/lower case of the target position in the mapping does not match the GTC TRR position during a standard import (e.g.: POS04A instead of pos04a), an error message is displayed, nevertheless the value is saved.
If the TRR had not been saved before, the imported value will not be displayed and the value cannot be changed via the entry in the TRR field either.

Solution:

Regardless of the upper/lower case of the target position in the mapping, the value is imported and saved. Consequently, the value can also be edited in the TRR dialogue afterwards.

Situation:

A company that transfers deferred taxes to its parent company in the previous period was deleted/archived in the subsequent period. The flag SHOW_OCI_AT_SUMMARY=1 is active.

The result sheet cannot be opened for the parent company in the current period. A system error message is displayed.

Solution:

The result sheet can be opened for the parent company in the current period.
In the breakdown of OCIs, the figures of the pre-period company are taken into account in the Change column.

Situation:

Over the time, new columns were added to the dialog. The current arrangement of the columns now seems completely random. The user has to jump between the columns to get an overview.

Solution:

According to the feedback of our customers the columns were rearranged. This does not change the calculation in the dialogue.

Situation:

In case of an error during login (eg: wrong password) the login dialog is refreshed, but no corresponding message shown to the user.

Solution:

The user is shown the corresponding error message, when a login error occurs.

Situation:

For connections with MySQL databases GTC uses the MySQL JDBC driver 5.1.21. This version suffers from several security issues.

Solution:

Connections with MySQL databases use the latest MySQL JDBC driver 8.0.26. This driver supports MySQL versions 5.6, 5.7 and 8.0.

Situation:

With a large number of users who have been assigned many individual permissions, the user overview opens very slowly. In addition, the table could not be exported correctly.

Solution:

The display is simplified by combining the four columns of the "Role-Company Assignment" into one column. This avoids the display problems and the page can be built up faster by the browser.

In addition, the column for displaying the " blocked" status is removed. Instead, the selection field " Display" can be used to control which data is shown: The entries "active", "archived" and " blocked" users are available for selection.

In the master data of the toolbox, the positions 13.1 "Taxed at a different tax rate" and 13.2 "Of which taxed from withholding tax" are now made available. After activation, these two items are mapped below line 13 and, according to the previous calculation logic, additionally run into and reduce the calculation of line 13 "Taxable income for corporate/local tax". Line 13.1 is determined by the sum of lines 40.1.1, 40.2.1, 40.3.1 and 40.4.1. Line 13.2 is a carryover of line 41.1. This function is activated with patch 1300981.

Situation:

The JDBC driver for Oracle databases which was used up to now is no longer maintained by Oracle.

Solution:

An up-to-date JDBC driver for Oracle databases is used (ojdbc8.jar). It supports Oracle 12.2, 12cR2 and later database versions.

Implementation of the interface type "direct import" for validation in the single company.

Situation:

When calculating in the audit questionnaire, incorrect results are stored in the overview.

Solution:

The calculation in the audit questionnaire is performed separately for each version.

Situation:
Compliance: file downloads via the ToDos overview are not possible.

Solution:
File downloads enabled again.

Situation: 
Currency fields with NIL values, are displayed as empty fields.

Solution: 
Currency fields with NIL values are displayed in gray in the Questionnaire.

Situation:
Calculated values which are displayed in the overview are not updated.

Solution:
Values are updated correctly.

Situation:

In the reports "Report Differences" and "Report Differences (without zero values)" no currency conversion could be executed.

Solution:

The selection in the dropdown "Currency" is now also supported for the reports "Report differences" and "Report differences (without zero values)".

The currency conversion takes place using the FX rate maintained for the respective company or the assigned country.

Situation:

In case of a tax rate change between the current and the true-up period, the corresponding effect on deferred taxes is shown once in the TRR and in the Other dialogue, but with different signs.

Solution:

In case of a tax rate change between current and true-up period, the corresponding effect on deferred taxes is shown in the TRR and in the Other dialogue with the same sign.

Situation:

Detail information in tax forms cannot be imported. They can only be delivered by manual input.

Solution:

The interface direction "Import enhanced" (Mapping Engine) supports an import into detail information of tax forms

Situation:

E-Mail Reminder does not send reminder mails for archived items

Solution:

E-Mail Reminder sends reminder mails for archived items

Situation:

Custom rows created through the Toolbox Master Data dialog were no longer present in the totals calculation of rows 16 and 33.

Solution:

By a job, which is executed at the start of the server, such manual lines are calculated again in the lines 16 and 33.

Please check in the autorun log if the job with ID 48 was processed correctly.

Situation:

The report "Rollforward DT" shows the deferred taxes of current and prior period and the detailled change between both periods. The calculation to group currency is only executed with the average exchange rate.

Solution:

The report is calculating with the correct exchange rate per single value now.

Situation:

The dialogue "Report tax balance based profit" is currently only displayed for companies with german tax law.

Solution:

The dialogue "Report tax balance based profit" shows the calculation of the taxable profit/loss. This is relevant for the tax calculation regardless of Germany. Therefore, this dialogue is now displayed for all companies.

Situation:

Very large numbers (several billions) without decimal places cannot be imported by REST service. An error message concerning an invalid data format is shown.

Solution:

Very large numbers (several billions) without decimal places are correctly imported by REST services.

Situation:

By means of the export of GTC IDs users can access nearly any GTC value and use them in their "Own reports". In some areas users have the need for addtitional IDs. Differences in the B/S comparison for columns with the same properties regarding P/L vs OCI and temporary vs permanent are not aggregated.

Solution:

Difference values in the B/S comparison for columns with the same properties regarding P/L vs OCI and temporary vs permanent are added up.
In the "Summary" values for Subtotal and Offsetting are exported with their own IDs.
In "LCF" values of the different categories are additionally exported with new unifying IDs. Some additional values are exported wiith new IDs.

Situation:

The password guidelines provided at delivery were no longer in line with current recommendations.

Solution:

The guidelines provided at delivery were updated. Detailed information on the configuration options can be found in the corresponding chapter. Users can still log in. As soon as a user has to assign a new password on a regular basis, the new configuration is applied.
The minimum length of the username has been raised up to 8 characters.

Situation:

When archiving a company, an error message occurs if this company has subordinate companies. The error occurs as of version 20.16.00.

Solution:

Archiving of companies can be performed without error messages.

Situation:

The master data of the toolbox cannot be edited if "---" is selected as the country.

Solution:

The display of certain lines can be activated and deactivated in the toolbox master data.

Situation:

When archiving a company, an error message occurs if this company has subordinate companies. The error occurs as of version 20.16.00.

Solution:

Archiving of companies can be performed without error messages.

Situation:

The password guidelines provided at the time of delivery were no longer in line with current recommendations.

Solution:

The guidelines specified at delivery have been adapted. Detailed information about the configuration options can be found in the corresponding chapter. Users can still log in. As soon as a user has to assign a new password on a regular basis, the new configuration is applied.

Situation:

In the "(Sub-)Group / Status" section, the milestone "Actual taxes" is missing in the "Milestones of dependent companies / (sub-)groups" section for consolidation units.

Solution:

The milestone is now displayed.