A simple journal entry security fix for Microsoft Dynamics GP

Let's talk for a minute about an easy security fix in Dynamics GP.

There is something I see quite a lot when using Fastpath Assure to analyze GP companies for segregation of duties conflicts. A set of users will have rights to create an account in the chart and to create a journal entry. This is a conflict because a user could create a fictitious account and then create a journal entry to move amounts into the new account. For example, amounts could be moved from expenses into a fictitious balance sheet account to materially change the outcome of the financial statements.

That's bad, so many companies have mitigating controls over journal entries because they need certain users to ...

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