More and more countries whose France requires companies submitted to taxation to provide dematerialized and electronic accounting transaction files in a regulatory format in order to control fraud, such as the FEC file for France.

In France, several fields are mandatory in accounting transactions where there must be no blank or no gaps alterations in the data. In addition to the information related to the accounts, the source code, the amounts and their sign, it is also necessary to add the accounting posting description, which corresponds to the literal identification of the reason for the accounting entry.

In order to prevent blank accounting posting description it is very important to check this field from codeunit 11 before running codeunit 12 .

This rule must be applied in order to be in compliance to French Tax autorities and the providing of FEC files.