Founder and principal of East Coast Dynamics, a Microsoft Certified Business Professional - GP, Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft MVP.
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http://gp2themax.blogspot.com/ November 2009 - Posts
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Wanna launch FRx from within GP? Go Reports>Financial>FRx . If the path isn't already set, the FRx Setup window opens to allow you to specify the path to the FRx.exe file. Enter or browse to the path and click OK. * click image to enlarge Now...
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As you may know, the Inventory BOM is a great little tool for accumulating assembly costs for simple, single-level manufactured items. However, the IV BOM does have its limitations. It's generally useful for capturing only the material component of...
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But Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Best wishes to you, your families and friends. Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving Day or not, let's all take this opportunity to give thanks for the blessings we have.
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One of the shortcomings in GP Project Accounting is the inability to enter a journal entry against a project. This is because the interface between PA and the General Ledger is not bi-directional. Transactions originating in PA can be posted to the Financial...
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Have you ever posted a payables transaction with a document date in a future period that doesn't yet exist in Fiscal Periods setup? No doubt this has happened in almost every company that uses GP. This has been an issue in every version of GP. Why...
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Amongst other things, DynamicsWorld profiles Dynamics MVPs on their website. I'm honored to have been asked to do an online interview for them. Follow this link to learn how I got into this crazy business and who my GP inspiration is - http://www...
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Here's a way to do a 'quick and dirty' balance sheet or income statement in FRx. Unless you use Advanced Financial Analysis for your financial statements, you may not realize that you can use GP Account Categories in FRx. In an FRx row format...
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I try to stay away from the technical stuff in this blog and keep it oriented toward daily transaction processing and reporting but in my opinion this is worthy of mention, especially if you do a lot of SSRS reporting. One of my frustrations with SSRS...
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If you need to send a form letter to your customers, vendors, employees, etc., SmartList provides the Letter Writing Assistant to help automate the process. Let's say you want to send a thank you letter to your customers. Open SmartList and choose...
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GP provides Autocomplete capability in data entry fields to allow you to select from a list of previously used entries. This functionality typically helps speed data entry. However, after a period of time, Autocomplete can slow data entry because when...
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Ever been curious about the differences between GP, Axapta (AX) , Navision (NAV) and Solomon (SL)? Houston Neal of http://www.softwareadvice.com/ offers a concise overview here - http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/manufacturing/understanding-the-difference...
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GP provides a method to ensure that batch transactions are not posted without proper authorization - Batch Approvals. Batch Approvals requires the person responsible for posting batches to supply a password to post the batch. Here's how to set that...
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If you use a lot of the same formulae in your FRx row formats, you might want to take a look at using Account Sets. These can make setting up your row formats quicker and easier. Here's how they work . . . * click image to enlarge Here is the GL Account...
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If you stock inventory in mutiple warehouses (Sites) and want to utilize Site-specific inventory accounts, GP provides a way to automatically code inventory transactions to the proper accounts based on the Site ID where the transaction occurs. Here's...
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I'm a proponent of the saying 'Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to fish and you feed them for a lifetime'. My goal as a GP consultant is to teach my clients to fish, not hand them the fish. However, lucky for...
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When you drill into a record in SmartList, you're taken to a default window. For instance, in Receivings Transactions, the default GoTo window is Receivings Transaction Entry. But what if you want the default GoTo to be a different window? Say Payables...
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A Kit is a group of items that isn't stocked but can be sold as an item on a sales transaction. For example, a computer system that is comprised of a computer, monitor, printer and software can be sold as a Kit even though the components are stocked...
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The Quick Journal is an excellent tool for posting recurring journal entries where the accounts stay the same from period-to-period but the amounts change. A good example of this is a Monthly Vacation Accrual. As opposed to standard journal entries, Quick...
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Which button would you vote to be the Most Valuable Button in the GP application? My vote would be for this one - That's right - the ubiquitous Help button. The amount of information available in the GP Help files is amazing. This button takes you...
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In the event of a stockout, GP provides the ability to substitute one sales item for another in a Sales Transaction document. The first step is setting up the substitute item(s) in the Item Maintenance window - Cards>Inventory>Item * click image...
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Here's a quick tip if you're having trouble getting material cost to rollup in a Manufacturing Bill of Material. Make sure every component in the BOM has a Periodic Valuation method assigned to it. Just one component in the BOM with valuation...
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If you're entering a drop ship sales order with multiple line items, here's a quick way to default all line items as 'Drop Ship' without having to check the Drop Ship box on every line. You do this prior to entering any line items in the...
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As we're nearing the end of the Fiscal Year for many companies, one of the reports external auditors ask for is a listing of all general journal entries posted for the year, who posted them and when they were posted, primarily to see if entries were...
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