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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By : Marije Brummel
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

Dynamics NAV 2009 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft that can be used for variety of business needs. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development, so you can develop complete applications and not just application outlines. It will show NAV developers how to create different kinds of applications. Different kinds of application are vital in different industries like fashion, automobile, retail, books (education), and other industries. It starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn how it is set up and customized for various industries. You will be able to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as Financial Management, Relationship Management, Production, Jobs, Trade, Storage, Logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Thus, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
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Customizing financial management

As financial management is regulated by the government and the standard functionality is already very complete, this application area is unlikely to have many changes, even though we have some examples of where the functionality is changed.

The examples in this chapter are included in the objects we used in Chapter 2.

Sales line description to G/L entries

When we post a Sales Invoice, the system will generate the G/L entries based on the sales lines. To avoid creating too many entries they are compacted. This is done using a buffer table, the Invoice Post. Buffer.

Only for the combination of the above listed fields, a G/L entry record is created. As we can see, the description is not one of these. This results in G/L entries with the posting description of the Sales Header which is often confusing for accountants when looking at the G/L entries.

As an example, we will...