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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Financial Management

By : Ian Grieve
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Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Financial Management

By: Ian Grieve

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 is a mature accounting software, ERP application, which is aimed at making life easier for financial professionals. This book is to assist readers in improving their use of Microsoft Dynamics GP by showing them how to get the most out of the financial aspect of the system. Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Financial Management is intended to add value to your organization by making use of additional modules and processes by introducing readers, new or experienced, to some of the financial management modules of Dynamics GP, such as Analytical Accounting, Cash Flow Management, and Encumbrance Management. Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Financial Management introduces the six essential financial modules. You will get acquainted with accounting to enable reporting, before gaining an oversight into inflow and outflow of cash. Budget studies cover all aspects of budget use in Dynamics GP for comparing actual figures against the budgets created and maintained within the system. The final chapters cover PO Commitments and Encumbrance Management; two sides of the same coin. Both modules allow for the control of purchasing by either committing or encumbering the transactions and preventing overspending.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Financial Management
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Budgets in Management Reporter 2012


The inquiries and report in Dynamics GP for budgets are good but fairly limited in functionality. Fortunately, another range of Dynamics products is available for use to report on budgets.

This is the Management Reporter 2012 financial reporting product. With the Dynamics GP 2013 Starter Pack (the base licensing pack), an unlimited number of administrator, designer, generator, and viewer licenses are available.

Management Reporter allows for the reporting of multiple budgets for periods, ranges of periods, or YTD. In this section, we'll take a look at producing a fairly simple budget for the Sales division using the 2017 SALES budget created earlier.

Before producing the report, you will need a fully implemented installation of the latest version of Management Reporter 2012 (at time of writing, this is Rollup 6). You also need security access to Management Reporter and a basic understanding of the reporting product.

We are going to cover a fairly simple report...