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Advice You - How to Reconcile Your VAT in 2 Minutes
Reconciling your VAT is one of the easiest tasks using Sage Software and yet so many small businesses seem to struggle with the task. It's the end of the VAT quarter and pa According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product nic sets in because they have to check lots of reports and they aren't entirely sure what they are doing. When introduced to a new client I have always asked the question " ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in ow long does it take to reconcile your VAT return?" The answer's I get back vary from a couple of hours to a couple of days! The answer I should be hearing is no more than lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together. a couple of minutes. When accounts staff are presented with this, and they usually go on the offensive, stating that it takes them ages to go through all the reports and che here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe k them. Twaddle! Their response tells me instantly that they don't fully understand the software they're using. And this doesn't just apply to Sage Software users either. d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro Every time a transaction is entered into the Accounts it is automatically collected in the VAT Control Accounts, In the case of Sage Software, Vat on purchases is collected ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc n nominal code 2201 and VAT on Sales is collected in nominal code 2200. So let’s take a step back to entering the data on a day to day basis. With Sales invoices it doesn' easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi t really matter if all of your sales are standard rated VAT because the program will add 17.5 % (UK) to the net anyway. If you have a mixed bag of sales, that is, you sell nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically oods which are standard (17.5%) exempt, zero or reduced rated. Then your products vat code should be set to the rate applicable. If that is the case then there is little nee and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ d to worry about the Sales VAT at the quarter end. VAT law states that your invoice must tell the recipient which vat rate you have charged them with Which brings us to th ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi other side - When you receive a Purchase invoice or make a payment the document tells you whether you have been charged at standard rate, exempt rate, zero rate or the 5% r ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a educed rate. So when you are entering the invoices in to sage you need to check the correct tax rate code and that the screen vat amount says the same as the invoice, if it dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod doesn't then make the screen say the same. Watch out for those rounding penny differences. On the subject of which, you always round vat down. If we all did then we wouldn't cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin have those penny differences (Mr Brown doesn't need all those extra pennies anyway, but don't quote me on that!) Now if you know on a day to day basis that every Sales inv tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen ice has the correct vat and every purchase invoice was checked as it was entered. Why spend hours and days at the VAT quarter end checking through those same figures? When t? As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel all you need to do is as follows 1. Have you entered all the transaction over the VAT quarter? 2. Have you reconciled your bank accounts to the last day of the VAT quarter? ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust If yes Check that the balance in nominal codes 2200 Sales Vat is the same as box 1 on the vat return over the same date range. Check that the amount in 2201 purchase VAT i y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products s the same as box 4 on the vat return again over the same date range. Do they match? They should do! Time taken to check - less than a minute - though you now have to arch . As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de ve, print your reports in case vat person pays a visit and empty out the control accounts using a journal to start a fresh for the new quarter. Total time a couple of minut elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip es VAT is not something that turns up at the end of three months, if you let the software manage it on a daily basis you can sleep easy. Copyright 2006 Warrington Web Work tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products
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