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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

Exploring customer master data characteristics


The customer record has essential information that directly affects accounts receivable transactions. In the following section, we will cover the basic information that should be considered when creating a new customer record.

In order to create a new customer record, you should navigate to Accounts receivable | Customers | All customers.

On the customer list page, press Alt + N to create a new customer record. As shown in the following screenshot, the mandatory fields are Customer account, Name, Customer group, and Country/region. You can either save the entered information and complete it afterwards or go to the transaction form, whether Sales quotation, Project quotation, and/or Sales order:

We can see the following in the preceding screenshot:

  • The Customer account, whether assigned manually or automatically through the number sequence.
  • Group is a mandatory field that represents the customer group that the particular customer belongs to, and this...