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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

Setting up maintenance information


Maintenance expenses are routine periodic costs charged to preserve the value of fixed assets. Unlike capital improvements, maintenance expenses do not increase the value of the assets.

To use the fixed asset maintenance functionality in Microsoft Dynamics, you should set up the following:

  1. Maintenance information on the Fixed Asset card:

  2. Fixed Asset posting groups to allow posting of the maintenance costs to the general ledger:

  3. Maintenance code so that you can select the type of maintenance when you post maintenance costs:

Maintenance registration and costs

Every time a fixed asset is sent for service, you have to record the relevant information, such as the date of service, vendor number, service agent name, and phone number.

When the service is completed and you receive a maintenance invoice, you register the maintenance costs through an FA G/L journal, purchase invoice, or FA journal, depending on whether the associated depreciation book is integrated...