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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

Customer balances


The balance is the total amount a customer owes you or you owe to a vendor. Customer and vendor balances can be seen on their card through a field called Balance (LCY). LCY stands for Local Currency. This means that, regardless of the currency used, amounts are always translated to your local currency.

To learn the details of the balance amount, you can click on the amount and the corresponding ledger entries will be shown. This can be seen in the following screenshot:

As you can see, customer 20000, Selangorian Ltd. has seven pending invoices. Two of them are already due (they are shown in red) and invoice 00-8 has been partially paid (note that the remaining amount is lower than the original amount).

Which invoice has been paid?

Customer 20000, Selangorian Ltd. has had many other transactions in the past. In the previous screenshot, we just viewed open transactions, but we can see them all by going back to the card and clicking on Ledger Entries in the Navigate tab.

To see...