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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
5
Foretelling - Budgeting and Cash Flow Management

General setup


Every Dynamics NAV functional area has its own setup options that will determine the behavior of the application on that area. We will take a look at the setup of the functional areas we have seen in this book: General ledger, Sales, Purchases, and Inventory.

Most of the available setup options can be found via the following path: Departments | Administration | Application Setup | Financial Management | Finance, and you can choose among the different setups available.

The General Ledger Setup page is shown in the following screenshot:

The General Ledger Setup page allows you to determine general behaviors that will be used throughout the whole application. As an example, we have identified four setup groups, as follows:

  • Allowed posting dates: We have explained the usage of this setup in Chapter 3, Accounting Processes.

  • Address format: Different countries type address information in different orders. Here, you specify how addresses will be written on printed documents, such as...