External reports include:

• The financial statements
• Advance return for tax on sales and purchases
• The EC sales list (relevant only for firms based within the European Union)
• The withholding tax return to the tax authorities and to your customers and vendors
• The payables and receivables report required by German Foreign Trade Regulations (Germany only)

The following topics describe how you create external reports for tax agencies and other authorities and how you print the financial statements. You create these reports using the functions described in the following section.