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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition - Financial Management - Third Edition

By : Mohamed Aamer Ala El Din
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Enterprise Edition - Financial Management - Third Edition

By: Mohamed Aamer Ala El Din

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance and operations is a rapidly growing application and is widely used in enterprise organizations. Because of its ability to maximize business productivity, it is a fast-growing business application package in the ERP market. We will start by looking into ERP concepts, implementation needs, and interface design, giving you basic knowledge of financial management aspects and explaining key concepts along the way. To begin with, you'll be taken through the general ledger and financial dimension functions. You'll later learn about the sales tax mechanism and multi-currency in Microsoft Dynamics 365. We tackle each topic with focused examples and explanations on topics such as payable/receivable accounts, forecasting, cash and bank management, budgeting planning/control, and fixed assets. Finally, we walk you through intercompany, consolidation, costing basics, and financial reporting. By the end of this book, your finance team will have a much richer understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for finance and operations and its powerful capabilities.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Understanding shared financial data


Since the previous version of Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Microsoft has introduced a new concept called shared financial data, which reduces the effort and time of deployment in a multiple-company environment and operational maintenance. A group of companies can share the same chart of accounts, currencies, and dimensions—this decreases the operation time. For example, a new main account will be available to all companies. The following figure explains the concept of shared financial data in detail:

 

The financial data that will be shared between the companies is as follows:

  • Chart of accounts (COA): This contains the main account, the COA could be one shared COA between all legal entities, or a COA for one legal entity or group of legal entities. This is all dependent on customer requirements, and the nature of the business. It is a trade-off decision, if subsidiaries decide to maintain separate chart of accounts instead of using one...