OPTIM’IS premium

Performance in its simplicity

The French market leader combining practical business data and tax requirements, OPTIM'IS premium is easy to use. The software guides you through every step of the way. Its dashboard indicates your progress step by step, up to publishing Cerfa tax forms and EDI-TDFC generation. You are then free to focus on analysing and optimising your tax consolidation.

OPTIM'IS premium is updated regularly to account for changes in tax legislation. An Altaven team of tax experts is permanently available to help you implement and monitor your application.

The OPTIM’IS premium dashboard guides you through the software's main functions and rapidly indicates your progress. In a click of an icon, you have direct access to the function you want with the corresponding reporting period.

OPTIM’IS premium advantages

ADVANTAGES THAT MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE

OPTIM’IS premium is easy to use. Its intuitive ergonomics, its fast, userfriendly learning slope and its simple, precise dashboard guide you step by step.

OPTIM'IS premium is a powerful tool. It historises all data – real, corrected, forecast, budgeted and simulated – enabling you to run comparisons and analyses.

OPTIM’IS premium draws on the combination of different types of expertise: a team boasting more than 15 years of experience in software publishing working hand in hand with tax experts.

OPTIM’IS premium is the fruit of more than 10 successful tax campaigns.

OPTIM’IS premium is updated every year by a team of tax consolidation specialists to comply with the new Tax legislation. In addition to changes in legislation, the annual updates also incorporate technological advances and the functional enhancements requested by users.

OPTIM’IS premium has a documentation centre with updates of online help files.

OPTIM’IS premium is a genuine tax reporting tool: centralisation or decentralisation of data entry, single workstation or a multi-user network, issuance of reports used to compare various assumptions, official filings, forecasts and simulations all in one application.

OPTIM’IS premium integrates easily into your office automation environment: file import/export, Excel interface.

OPTIM’IS premium can be installed quickly and easily. You install the main version and its updates yourself.

ADVANTAGES FOR ALL

TAX DIRECTOR

Manage tax group data in a single reliable source to meet your reporting requirements efficiently and rapidly!
Stay up to date with new legal requirements to ensure that your reported earnings comply with tax regulations at all times!
Use a powerful system to explain each figure in your tax consolidation!
Organise your data collection by easily rolling out a standard application to help you to shorten deadlines and increase data reliability!
Anticipate tax impacts linked to tax savings and changes in scope by managing and comparing an unlimited number of forecasts!

USER

Benefit from simple, user-friendly ergonomics with the dashboard that guides you through your tax filing step by step!
Secure your work with a systematic verification of your data prior to validation and a high number of automated sequences!
Easily store, view and modify all of your historical data  to adjust and correct your tax filings!
Enjoy a work space and team dedicated to your business to meet your functional needs and advise you throughout your tax consolidation project!
Reduce and simplify your data entry in order to focus more on high value-added analyses!

TECHNICAL MANAGER

Easily and thoroughly integrate the software into the existing infrastructure thanks to the application's extensive, open-ended compatibility with market standards!
Favour implementation in line with user needs through an application that adapts to both centralised and decentralised architectures, running on either a single workstation or multi-user networks!
Secure data access to meet confidentiality and organisational requirements effectively!
Smoothly roll out the application thanks to its full integration into a Citrix Metaframe® environment!

Technical specifications
- Platforms : Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, 2008 Server et Vista.
- Database : Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 et Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g.
- Connections : Web, Citrix, TSE, TS Web


Main functionalities

• Management of an unlimited number of tax groups
• Establishment of scope: calculation of ownership and chain breaks, filing and form 2029B
• Data historisation since group set-up
• Management of inter-company disposals and mergers
• Management of restructurings: holding company mergers or acquisitions and appropriation to an enlarged tax base
• Monitoring of inter-company transactions: asset disposals, provisions, dividends, etc.
• Calculation of tax savings
• Monitoring of corporate income tax prepayments and current accounts
• Under-capitalisation
• Depreciation by component
• Simulations, forecasts, budgets: choice of a complete or simplified package
• Management of authorisations: LDAP, parameterisable functional profiles
• Permanent controls: more than 300 consistency or plausibility checks, direct access to details on checks and documents in question
• Power of retrieval: more than 300 analysis documents, multi-period and multi-phase comparisons
• Management of sub-consolidation levels (sub-groups)
• Decentralised data entry: Web, TS Web Access, Citrix, Excel or Optim’is local
• Export of all filing and retrieval reports into Excel
• Integrated workflow: package status, approval process, open-ended dashboard with real-time updates, traceability (Who? What? When?)
• Multiple issuances: personalised, Cerfa filings, retrieval reports by company, by division, PDF per document or in bulk
• Entry of comments: cell, form, package or group
• Colour coding: to differentiate data entry fields from calculation fields
• Interface with Etafi and Profin: common law packages
• Interface with Visual Scope: legal scope data
• Directory Module: contacts from companies within the scope
• Automatic emails: in PDF format for all available documents (corporate income tax prepayments, 2058ER, issuances per division, etc.)
• Network-based EDI TDFC module
• Tax audit module: to re-run and compare N versions of adjusted packages
• Timetable module: direct access to a module, order, dialogue box or document, system of alerts (reminder of legal filing deadlines)

Scope

Managing tax groups

OPTIM’IS premium can be used to create an unlimited number of tax groups and establish the tax consolidation scope for each reporting period.
OPTIM’IS premium manages company status: consolidated, outgoing, absorbed, merged, merger or absorption of holding company. Each status has a different tax treatment.

Establishing the scope

Ownership is calculated automatically based on voting rights and dividend rights. Consolidation terms (closing date or reporting period and chain break) are checked prior to validation.
OPTIM’IS premium prepares the scope filing that is sent to the tax authorities.

Controlled data entry

OPTIM’IS premium is equipped with a secure module for entering data on consolidated subsidiaries.
Data entry includes tax tables (2058 A, B, 2059 A and C, 2058 A bis, B bis, FC and ER, 2900, 2901), reports on specific inter-company transactions and tax-related data. Comments associated with each package can also be entered. The reconciliation of inter-company transactions is automatically checked.

With OPTIM’IS premium, you can decentralise data entry at your subsidiaries. Centralised work is faster and more reliable with automated data reporting. In order to secure this transaction, data entry is validated by more than 200 (blocking) consistency and (non-blocking) plausibility checks.
Automatic data exchanges (sending and receiving) between central and remote sites are managed by the communication function (OPTIM'IS premium management).

Tax data management

OPTIM’IS premium calculates the tax impact of disposals in the consolidation scope: adjustments to capital gains or losses on internal disposals, reintegration/deduction of grants and write-offs, impacts on group tax. It can also generate adjustments resulting from non-group disposals of assets.
OPTIM’IS premium automatically updates the corresponding rows in the comprehensive income tables (2058 ER and ES) following these adjustments.
OPTIM’IS premium automatically manages subsidiary and group tax loss carry-forwards. It also offers tax income optimisation reports. Group tax can be calculated and prepayment statements monitored.
OPTIM’IS premium provides you with 300 detailed analysis reports (components of tax savings, monitoring of eliminated inter-company transactions, summary tables by division, etc.). You can then trace and explain your data and run a thorough tax audit on your group.
OPTIM’IS premium offers both publishing on certified Cerfa forms or on blank paper.

Transferring tax and accounting data

OPTIM’IS premium: The TDFC module is used to meet your remote transmission filing requirements: tax package (common law and tax consolidation), group package, corporate income tax liquidation (2029 B and 2066).

Forecasts and simulations module

OPTIM’IS premium is used to produce an unlimited number of forecasts, simulations and budgets (or tax plans) to measure the tax impact (changes in tax expense). OPTIM’IS premium offers a dynamic dashboard that can be used to view all of these transactions, either those completed or in progress. All simulations are archived and can be re-run as many times as you want.