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The CFA franc zones and OHADA accounting law — where the chart of accounts is prescribed, not chosen.
Seventeen countries share the OHADA commercial code, and with it SYSCOHADA: a prescribed chart of accounts with fixed account classes, not a template you adapt. Two currencies — the XOF in the UEMOA bloc and the XAF in CEMAC — are both pegged to the euro at a fixed rate, which removes FX risk against Europe and leaves it intact against everywhere else. VAT sits at 18% across most of the UEMOA and rises to 19.25% in Cameroon. Software bought here has to speak French and post to a chart it did not design.
SYSCOHADA fixes the account classes. Any system that expects you to invent your own numbering will produce statements an OHADA auditor cannot read, and remapping after go-live means restating every posted journal.
XOF and XAF are both fixed to the euro but not to each other in practice, and neither is fixed to the dollar. An organisation buying in USD and selling in XOF carries real exposure that the peg does nothing to cover.
A finance team that files in French will not accept an English-only ledger, and machine-translated account labels are worse than none. Interface language belongs on the evaluation scorecard from the first demo.
These are the sales-tax presets AWRA OpsHub ships with, 14 of the 88 countries covered in total. They are headline national rates and a starting point for configuration — reduced, zero-rated and exempt categories still need setting up against your own chart of accounts, and rates change with each finance act.
| Market | Currency | Tax | Standard rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal | XOF West African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
| Côte d’Ivoire | XOF West African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
| Mali | XOF West African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
| Burkina Faso | XOF West African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
| Togo | XOF West African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
| Benin | XOF West African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
| Niger | XOF West African CFA franc | VAT | 19% |
| Guinea-Bissau | XOF West African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
| Guinea | GNF Guinean Franc | VAT | 18% |
| Cameroon | XAF Central African CFA franc | VAT | 19.25% |
| Gabon | XAF Central African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
| Chad | XAF Central African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
| Central African Republic | XAF Central African CFA franc | VAT | 19% |
| Congo (Republic) | XAF Central African CFA franc | VAT | 18% |
Grouped by topic, newest first within each group.
Dakar buyers are usually shopping for three different things at once and calling all of them "ERP". Separate the operations system from the statutory ledger from the payroll bureau, and the shortlist writes itself.
Abidjan runs more multi-site industry than anywhere else in the CFA franc zone, and the shortlist is usually a French-language incumbent against an English-language platform. What that trade actually costs, priced honestly.
The CFA franc removes the exchange-rate problem between Dakar, Abidjan and Bamako — and removes nothing else. Why the shared currency makes regional groups underestimate what a border still costs them.
A numbered, nine-class chart of accounts is not a preference in OHADA countries — it is the law. Our ledger has no account numbers at all. Here is why that is the right design, and exactly how the handoff should work.
The CFA franc is pegged to the euro and floats against the dollar. That single fact inverts almost every multi-currency instinct imported from Lagos, Accra or Nairobi — including which exposure is worth tracking.
Bamako is three days from Dakar and the truck is not a rounding error. Corridor distribution, border custody, and why the in-transit window is the number your stock report quietly refuses to show you.
The bon de commande, bon de livraison and facture are a three-way match under different names — and a donor auditor who reads only English is a governance risk nobody budgets for.
Mobile money moved faster here than the till software did. What actually reconciles at close of day when a third of takings never touched the cash drawer — and where our honesty about integration begins.
IPRES, CSS, CNPS and a collective agreement that varies by sector. The most useful thing a foreign software vendor can tell you about Francophone payroll is where its competence stops.
Our interface is English. Yours is not. That is a staffing question inside the building and a document question outside it — and only one of the two is actually solvable by a vendor.
Each of these sets out what is built today and what is still on the roadmap for that market.
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