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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 cash and bank integration


The modules' transactions represent the customer's deposits in the company's bank accounts, either by cash or by check, and also payments to vendors through cash or check. Bank reconciliation is an important procedure performed weekly or monthly (according to the number of transactions and the customers' business needs). This process should be performed once a month, before the closing period, to ensure that bank transactions (bank statements) are matched with book transactions, which are recorded in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. The following diagram shows the integration of cash and bank management:

The Cash and Bank Management module is a shared module between the Accounts payable module and the Accounts receivable module (as seen in the preceding diagram), where vendor payments are executed by a check or cash that can be printed through Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. The customers' collections are deposited...