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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

Setting up dimensions


In Chapter 4, Reporting and Business Intelligence, you learned about dimensions and how they can help to analyze the data registered into the system. To create dimensions and dimensions values, we perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Dimensions and click on New.

  2. Give the new dimension a code such as ITEM TYPE.

  3. Click on Dimension Values and create the values shown in the following screenshot:

    Note

    You can create new dimension values on existing dimensions at any time.

Once the dimension is created, we have to tell the system whether it will be used as a global dimension or a shortcut dimension. This can be done in the General Ledger Setup window.

  1. Navigate to Departments | Financial Management | Setup | General Ledger Setup.

  2. In the Dimensions tab, select the ITEM TYPE dimension in the Shortcut Dimension 7 code field.

    Tip

    Change global dimensions Once the global dimensions are assigned, you can change them using the Change Global Dimensions job found on the...