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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition - Financial Management - Third Edition

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition - Financial Management - Third Edition

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

Exploring accounts payable transactions


This section will explore the transactions of the accounts payable module; transactions are divided into two main categories, invoicing and payment:

  • Invoicing: This is divided into purchase-order-related invoices and non-purchase-order-related invoices:
    • The purchase-order-related invoices: These invoices represent the invoices that are normally attached to a purchase order(s). Invoices related to a purchase order can be the final invoice of the purchase order, which is received after delivering the goods, or the prepayment invoice, which is recorded before delivering the goods. The attached prepayment invoice to a particular purchase order is a new functionality released prior to Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
    • The non-purchase-order-related invoices: These invoices represent the vendor liabilities for services rendered to the company; there are two ways of recording service invoices. The first is non-inventory invoices, which are...