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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
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Foretelling - Budgeting and Cash Flow Management

Displaying charts


Graphical information is always useful when analyzing data. Dynamics NAV offers various ways of viewing data in a graphical way.

The show as chart option

Whenever the information shown on the screen can be viewed as a chart, on the Home tab of the ribbon you will see a section called View where users can switch the view of the information from list to chart and vice versa as shown in the following screenshot:

When you switch to chart view, you can select which fields you want to use as a measure and which ones you want to use as dimensions.

Adding charts to the Role Center page

Dynamics NAV has a set of predefined charts that can be added to the Role Center page. To add a chart to the home page, perform the following steps:

  1. Click on Home.

  2. Click on the Application icon , click on Customize, and then click on Customize This Page.
  3. Select Chart Part from the Available parts column and click on the Add button.

  4. A Blank Chart will appear in the Role Center layout column.

  5. Select Blank...