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Dynamics 365 Finance empowers business users to control finances and manage funds with accurate information at any time for financial planning and forecasting, and stay up to date with analytics. Since finance is the heart of the business, and the General ledger module is the heart of financial management, this learning path shows you how to set up functionality in the General ledger module. It also covers how to complete closing procedures for a period or a year.
Prerequisites
The ability to use Finance for basic processing
Knowledge of finance and accounting processes
A general understanding of purchase order invoicing
Dynamics 365 Finance empowers business users to adapt to rapidly changing business environments. It provides businesses everything they need to control finances and manage funds with accurate information for financial planning and forecasting, and helps them stay up to date with analytics tools. Because finance is the core of any business, it's important to be acquainted with the capabilities of Dynamics 365 Finance.
In today's global market, businesses receive and send payments using different currencies. Exchange rates must be managed properly to lower the monetarily loss when accepting multiple currencies. Understanding how to forecast the amount of loss or gain caused by changes in exchange rate values can help you make smart business decisions to handle cash discounts and payments.
In any Dynamics 365 Finance implementation project, the first step is to configure the General ledger module. All other modules post their related financial transactions into the general ledger. As part of implementing the general ledger, configuring the chart of accounts is the first required step to identify accounts, dimensions, and structures.
In any Dynamics 365 Finance implementation project, the first step is to set up the General ledger module. All other modules post their related financial transactions into the general ledger. The ledger also provides the means for sharing the chart of accounts, currencies, and fiscal calendar by multiple legal entities.
You can use intercompany accounting when accounting processes are centralized for subsidiaries or branch offices. With intercompany accounting, you can create a single entry that posts to multiple companies. Dynamics 365 Finance provides features that help you set up the system, process transactions, and trace intercompany transactions.
Accruals are used in accrual accounting to track revenue that is recognized in the period that it's earned in, not when payment is received, and to track expenses (costs) that are recognized when they occur, not when payment is made. Allocations are used to distribute amounts across multiple ledger account combinations. They help to ensure that expenses or revenue is charged to the correct object in accounting. By using allocations and accrual features in Dynamics 365 Finance, financial leaders can create rules, configure source and destination, and schedule the task only once, the rest is taken care of by Finance.
