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How to amortise pre paid expenses

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What are the best methods to amortise an expenses over future periods?

For example a payment for insurance for 12 months of insurance. 

We pay the insurance 2 month in arrears so need to recognise 2/12 of the total expense now in the Expense Main Account in the general ledger, and schedule the remaining 10 months to load to the General Ledger expense main account over the next 10 months drawing down from a balance sheet prepayment  Main Account in the General Ledger.

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  • Anton Venter Profile Picture
    20,303 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    RE: How to amortise pre paid expenses

    Hi Paul,

    To be honest I think you will need a customization to do exactly what you are describing because I don't think there's functionality in the standard application that can do that as described.

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    Paul_199 Profile Picture
    30 on at
    RE: How to amortise pre paid expenses

    Hi Anton,

    I read information on Learn for D365

    Configure ledger allocations and accruals in Dynamics 365 Finance

    and this explained how to do what I needed from standard functionality

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    Magno Pereira Profile Picture
    2,435 Moderator on at
    RE: How to amortise pre paid expenses

    Have you explored the Accrual schemes and Ledger accruals? It might be worth considering them for your situation.

    learn.microsoft.com/.../accruals-overview

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    Gaurangkumar Jani Profile Picture
    4,514 User Group Leader on at
    RE: How to amortise pre paid expenses

    Hi Paul_199

    Have you explored "Subscription Billing" module?

    Please have a look to this functionality, this will allow you to differed expense forceable future based on your requirement.

    Link of docs : learn.microsoft.com/.../sb-deferrals

    Please let us know if this helps.

    Thanks,

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    saurabh bharti Profile Picture
    15,039 Moderator on at
    RE: How to amortise pre paid expenses

    Hi,

    Please see below article :

    exploredynamics365.home.blog/.../

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    Paul_199 Profile Picture
    30 on at
    RE: How to amortise pre paid expenses

    learn.microsoft.com/.../

    This is where I found the answer to how to post prepayments and accruals in D365 Financials

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