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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition - Financial Management - Third Edition

By : Mohamed Aamer Ala El Din
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition - Financial Management - Third Edition

By: Mohamed Aamer Ala El Din

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance and operations is a rapidly growing application and is widely used in enterprise organizations. Because of its ability to maximize business productivity, it is a fast-growing business application package in the ERP market. We will start by looking into ERP concepts, implementation needs, and interface design, giving you basic knowledge of financial management aspects and explaining key concepts along the way. To begin with, you'll be taken through the general ledger and financial dimension functions. You'll later learn about the sales tax mechanism and multi-currency in Microsoft Dynamics 365. We tackle each topic with focused examples and explanations on topics such as payable/receivable accounts, forecasting, cash and bank management, budgeting planning/control, and fixed assets. Finally, we walk you through intercompany, consolidation, costing basics, and financial reporting. By the end of this book, your finance team will have a much richer understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance and operations and its powerful capabilities.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Working with vendor checks


Checks are payment instruments that are used to pay vendors. Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations provides check design and generation. The checks are assigned to bank accounts and then used in the vendor payment journal. The following diagram illustrates the check elements:

In order to create and design checks, navigate to Cash and bank managementBank accounts | Bank accounts and then move to the Setup tab and LayoutIn the Check layout form, identify the following:

  • Check number method (fixed or free): The fixed check number represents predefined check numbers that are created then get used in vendor payment. The free check number represents the manual entry of check numbers in the vendor payment.
  • Layout: This represents the design of the printed check, and helps identify the paper length and margins.

The following screenshot illustrates the Check layout form:

Note

Printable paper length must be set to at least 92.89 mm for checks.

In the vendor method...