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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

Cash flow management


Understanding the flow of incoming and outstanding cash is vital for any company. We need to know if we will have enough money to pay creditors and expenses when they are due. This is actually what the cash flow management functionality will tell us. We will see how to do this in this section.

The cash flow management functionalities analyze several sources of information to be able to predict cash needs. The sources that this functionality uses are as follows:

  • General ledger: This uses information about the liquid funds and also about the budgets we have seen in the previous section

  • Purchases: This uses information about the current payables and also forecasted information taken from open purchase orders

  • Sales: This uses information about the current receivables and also forecasted information taken from open sales orders

  • Service: This uses information about open service orders

  • Fixed assets: This uses information about planned disposal and budgeted purchases of fixed...