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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Financial Management

By : Cristina Nicolàs Lorente, Laura Nicolàs Lorente
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Financial Management

By: Cristina Nicolàs Lorente, Laura Nicolàs Lorente

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application used in all kinds of organizations around the world. An ERP helps to integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization. It provides a great variety of functionalities in different areas such as accounting, sales and purchases processing, logistics, and manufacturing.</p> <p>Microsoft Dynamics NAV Financial Management explains all you need to know to successfully handle your daily financial management tasks. You will learn about functionalities such as the sales and purchase processes, payments, bank account management, reporting taxes, budgets, cash flow, fixed assets, inventory valuation, and business intelligence.</p> <p>This book comprehensively walks you through all the financial management features inside Dynamics NAV following a logical schema. This book is focused on what’s most important to you, the functionalities of Dynamics NAV, and it covers all setup explanations in a single chapter.</p> <p>You will gain in-depth knowledge about functionalities, including sales and purchase processes, pricing, document approval, payments, bank management, and accounting transactions. You will also learn about VAT reporting, fixed assets, inventory valuation, annual account closing, consolidation, reporting, and business intelligence.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will have also learned about budgets, cash flow management, currencies, intercompany postings, and accounting implications on areas such as jobs, services, warehousing, and manufacturing.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Financial Management
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Foretelling – Budgeting and Cash Flow Management
Index

Posting accounting transactions


The system can automatically create and post many accounting transactions such as the ones regarding sales and purchase invoices, for instance. There are many other transactions that end up in an accounting entry automatically created by the system. We will actually see these in this chapter: taxes, fixed assets, inventory valuation, and so on.

You will probably need to post many other accounting transactions that are not managed by the system, such as payroll accrual entries, provisions, or others. You can post all those transactions using the General Journal.

The general journal can be accessed by navigating to Departments/Financial Management/General Ledger and clicking on General Journals.

On the general journal, you manually create the necessary transaction lines, indicating the Account No., Bal. Account No., and Amount as shown in the following screenshot. There are many other fields that could be filled in, actually, but we will start with an easy example...