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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Financial Management - Second Edition

By : Anju Bala, Cristina Nicolas Lorente, Laura Nicolàs Lorente
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Financial Management - Second Edition

By: Anju Bala, Cristina Nicolas Lorente, Laura Nicolàs Lorente

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is a global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that provides small and mid-size businesses with greater control over their finances and a way to simplify their supply chain, manufacturing, and operations. Microsoft Dynamics NAV Financial Management explains all you need to know in order to successfully handle your daily financial management tasks. This book walks you through all the improvements in the latest release and shows you how to apply them in your workplace. You will learn about functionalities including sales and purchase processes, payments, bank account management, reporting taxes, budgets, cash flow, fixed assets, cost accounting, inventory valuation, workflows, sending and receiving electronic documents, and business intelligence. This book comprehensively covers all the financial management features inside the latest version of Dynamics NAV and follows a logical schema. By the time you’re finished this book you will have learned about budgets, cash flow management, currencies, intercompany postings, and accounting implications in areas such as jobs, services, warehousing, and manufacturing.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Financial Management - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
5
Foretelling - Budgeting and Cash Flow Management

Inventory valuation


The valuation of your inventory must appear on your balance sheet accounts at the end of a fiscal year. The system can calculate the inventory valuation using different costing methods and can post it to the general ledger automatically, so that you do not have to worry about it. Due to performance issues, though, the inventory valuation is usually set up, so that posting to the general ledger is done manually.

Choosing a costing method

Dynamics NAV can calculate the valuation of your inventory according to five different costing methods: They are as follows:

  • First In First Out (FIFO): It assumes that the first units to be received in your stock will also be the first ones that will leave it. The inventory valuation will be based on the cost of the last received units.

  • Last In First Out (LIFO): It assumes that the last units to be received in your stock will be the first ones that will leave it. The inventory valuation will be based on the cost of the first received units...