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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

Number series


In Dynamics NAV, every document, transaction, or card (such as a customer or vendor card) must have a unique identification number by which it can be organized and tracked. To let the system help you with this, you can set up a number series performing the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Number Series.

  2. Click on New. Give the new number series a code, such as MY CUST, and a description, such as My Customers.

  3. Check the Default Nos. field and the Manual Nos. field. This way, you can either use automatic or manual numbering with the number series.

    Note

    If you need to check whether numbers are assigned chronologically, check the Date Order field.

  4. Click on the Lines option from the ribbon bar and create the following line:

    Note

    If you need to use a new number every month or every year, create as many lines as needed, indicating the starting date on each of them.

  5. To instruct the system to use these new number series when creating new customers, navigate to Departments | Financial...