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Article L123-19 of the French Commercial code

Assets and liabilities must be valued separately.

No offsetting may be made between asset and liability items in the balance sheet or between expense and income items in the income statement, except in exceptional cases provided for by a regulation of the Accounting Standards Authority.

The opening balance sheet for a financial year must correspond to the closing balance sheet for the previous financial year.

Original in French 🇫🇷
Article L123-19

Les éléments d’actif et de passif doivent être évalués séparément.

Aucune compensation ne peut être opérée entre les postes d’actif et de passif du bilan ou entre les postes de charges et de produits du compte de résultat, sauf dans des cas exceptionnels prévus par un règlement de l’Autorité des normes comptables.

Le bilan d’ouverture d’un exercice doit correspondre au bilan de clôture de l’exercice précédent.

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