Prerequisites for ECD

Note:

To access the Brazil Reports documentation in Brazilian Portuguese (Português do Brasil), see Brazil Reports.

If you use cost centers, before you generate ECD files, do the following:

• Enable the Departments feature.

  For more information, see General Company Features.

• Create department records for your cost centers.

  For more information, see Creating Departments.

• Add codes to your department records.

  For more information, see Cost Centers in Reports for Brazil.

• Associate the departments to your transactions.

• If you want to include the accounting book number in your ECD files, set up the book number and year of your last ECD submission.

  For more information, see Setting Up Accounting Book Numbers for ECD Files.

Related Topics

• Prerequisites for Generating Statutory Reports for Brazil
• Prerequisites for ECF
• Prerequisites for EFD ICMS IPI
• Prerequisites for EFD Contribuições
• Prerequisites for EFD-Reinf

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