Z-report

A Z-report or cash register balance document is the settlement of all daily closings. At the close of the cash register, the money is counted and the information is entered in the cash register. On this basis, the cash register is billed, the daily memory is set to zero and the Z-Bon is created. A Z-report indicates all sales of a day. An X-report, on the other hand, shows the current intermediate status of the cash register.

The Z-report must include the following information:

1. sequential and automatically generated number of the receipt 
2. name of the business (owner) 
3. date and time of the printout 
4. gross revenue per VAT rate 
5. cancellation and return bookings, withdrawals or all other operations in the cash register
6. type of payment
7. printing of the zero counter 

The Z-reports must be stored together with the cash register journal or the cash register reports.

source: DIHK - Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag e.V., Berlin

Leaflet: Requirements for cash management - Industrie -und Handelskammer Nordschwarzwald (ihk24.de)

Example of indicating the different tax rates on a Z-report:

Cash sales:

Cash sales total: gross            € 826,91

Cash sales 16 % VAT gross      € 700,00

                           VAT 16 %      €   96,55

 Cash sales 5 % VAT gross       € 126,91

                          VAT 5 %         €     6,04

 Return      16 % VAT gross      € 

                           VAT 16 %       €   

 Return         5 % VAT gross      € 

                            VAT 5 %         €    

Card payments:

EC payments total:                     € 417,70

Sales EC       16 % VAT gross      € 300,00

                             VAT 16 %       €   41,38

Sales EC       5 % VAT gross         € 117,70

                           VAT 5 %            €     5,60

EC Return        16 % VAT gross    € 

                                 VAT 16 %     €   

EC  Return       5 % VAT gross       € 

                               VAT 5 %          €