Category: General
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What dimensions are, how to design them for your management reporting needs, how default dimensions automate the coding, and how Analysis by Dimensions turns your GL data into the answers your leadership is actually asking for. What a Dimension Actually Is A Dimension in BC is an additional classification tag you attach to a GL entry —…
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Bank account setup, the Payment Reconciliation Journal, Copilot bank matching, foreign currency cash, and the reconciliation habits that keep your book cash honest — every period, without the spreadsheet. Bank Account Setup — The Foundation That Reconciliation Depends On Every bank account in BC has a Bank Account Card — the record that connects the physical bank…
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Item cards, item groups, costing methods, locations, item tracking — and why the decisions made on the item card follow every transaction for the life of your system. Why the Item Card Is a Finance Document Operations thinks of the item card as a product record — the place where you define what something is…
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Financial Reporter (Management Reporter), row definitions, column layouts, reporting trees, dimension filtering, and the gap between having accurate data in your system and having reporting infrastructure that turns that data into decisions. The Reporting Landscape in D365 F&O — What Tool Does What D365 F&O has multiple reporting surfaces, and the confusion about which one…
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Asset books, depreciation methods, acquisition and disposal accounting, mid-year conventions, and the configuration decisions that determine whether your fixed asset register and your general ledger agree at year end — and why they so often don’t. Why Fixed Assets Is More Complex Than It Looks On the surface, fixed assets seems like a straightforward module:…
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Purchase requisitions, purchase orders, vendor management, trade agreements, and budget control — the upstream discipline that determines whether your AP team is managing commitments or just cleaning up after them. The Fundamental Shift: Commitment Accounting vs. Cash Accounting Before we get into the specific features, let’s establish the mindset that Procurement and Sourcing is built…
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Bank account setup, electronic payments, bank reconciliation, the cash flow forecast, and the configuration decisions that determine whether treasury is a five-minute daily review or a full-time investigation. What Cash and Bank Management Actually Covers Let’s establish the scope. Cash and Bank Management in D365 F&O is the module responsible for: The bank account master records —…
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Account schedules, Financial Reports, Analysis Views, dimensions-based slicing, and the reporting habits that separate a finance team that trusts its numbers from one that’s constantly second-guessing them. How BC’s Reporting Architecture Works — The Layers Before we get into the configuration steps, it helps to understand how reporting in BC is structured. There are several…
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Costing methods, posting groups, period close, and why “the inventory didn’t reconcile” is almost always a configuration conversation — not a data entry problem. Why Inventory Accounting Is Genuinely Different Every other module we’ve covered in this series is primarily a Finance module. AP is run by Finance. AR is run by Finance. General Ledger,…
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Customer setup, sales documents, invoicing, collections reminders, and cash application — the full order-to-cash lifecycle in plain language, for the teams who actually run it. The Order-to-Cash Lifecycle in BC Before we get into the detail, here’s the shape of the full process. Not every BC organization uses every stage — some invoice directly without…