Module 1: Overview of Dynamics 365 Finance
This module will discuss the core components of Finance and look at the modules involved.
Lessons
Introduction:
- Lesson 1: Overview of Dynamics 365 Finance Features and capabilities
- Lesson 2: Core components of Dynamics 365 Finance
- Lesson 3: Overview of financial management modules in Dynamics 365 Finance
- Lesson 4: Benefits of Dynamics 365 Finance
- Module summary
- Knowledge Check
You learned some of benefits of financial management of Dynamics 365 Finance.
Module 2: Set up and configure financial management
In this module, we will discuss how to create a new legal entity (company) and setup and configure financial management for it. This module includes general ledger.
Lessons
Introduction:
- Lesson 1: Create and configure new legal entity
- Lesson 2: Define and configure the chart of accounts
- Lesson 3: Configure ledgers and currencies
- Lesson 4: Implement and manage journals
- Lesson 5: Implement and manage cash and bank
- Lesson 6: Implement cost accounting and cost management
- Lesson 7: Perform periodic processes
- Lesson 8: Configure, collect, and report taxes
- Module summary
- Knowledge Check
- You'll be able to set up and configure financial management by preparing the G/L and others.
Module 3: Implement and manage shared configuration for A/P and A/R
Dynamics 365 Finance offers extensive functionality for setting up different payment options which are shared between accounts payable and receivable modules.
Lessons
Introduction:
- Lesson 1: Configure Terms of payment
- Lesson 2: Configure payment days, and payment schedules
- Lesson 3: Configure Cash discounts
- Lesson 4: Configure Payment calendar
- Lesson 5: Configure Payment fees
- Module summary
- Knowledge Check
You'll be able to configure payment and bank information.
Module 4: Implement and manage accounts payable
This topic explains the basic setup of accounts payable and the vendor setup for efficient management of vendors and vendor transactions in Dynamics 365 Finance.
Lessons
Introduction:
- Lesson 1: Create and maintain Accounts payable method of payments
- Lesson 2: Create and maintain Vendor groups and vendors
- Lesson 3: Create and configure vendor posting profile
- Lesson 4: Configure invoice validation policies
- Lesson 5: Process orders, invoices, and payments
- Lesson 6: Enable and test vendor collaboration portal for a vendor
- Lesson 7: Configure accounts payable charges
- Lesson 8: Configure and use Positive pay
- Module summary
- Knowledge check
You've now learned:
- That payment options in Dynamics 365 Finance are flexible
- To set up and use payment schedules
- To manage cash discount
- To work with vendor groups
- To use features such as prepayments
Module 5: Implement and manage expense management
You can use the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps expense management to create an integrated workflow where you can store payment method information, import credit card transactions, and track the money that employees spend when they incur expenses for your business. You can also define expense policies and automate the reimbursement of travel expenses. Expense report entry has been redesigned to simplify the experience and decrease the time that is required to complete expense reports. You can turn on this functionality in Feature management. You can add a new setup page to configure the visibility of expense fields, and specify what data is required, optional, or not available when expense reports are entered. When this functionality is turned on, a new expense workspace is available. This workspace replaces the previous expense workspace and is the landing page for the improved entry experience. Travel and expense management has a strong value proposition for organisations with discretionary spending. Travel and entertainment expenses are a significant part of a company's controllable expense. To help curb these costs, expense management provides a mechanism to define and apply expense policies, in addition to flagging and reporting on abusers of the policies. Additionally, automating the entry and reimbursement of travel and entertainment expenses reduces processing costs versus manual entry. Expense management has tight integration with other modules such as Accounts payable, General ledger, Procurement, and sourcing and Project management and accounting.
Lessons
Introduction:
- Lesson 1: Configure and use expense management
- Module summary
- Knowledge check
You have learned some of benefits and overall features and functionality of Expense management.
Module 6: Implement and manage accounts receivable and credit and collections
You need to configure the Accounts receivable module to be able to perform A/R functionality. You could then create customer invoices, post packing slips, use free text invoices that are not related to sales orders, and receive payments by using several different payment types such as cash, checks, credit cards, and electronic payments from your customers. Managing prospects and customers properly helps businesses to fulfil some of their requirements, such as customers’ satisfaction. At the same time, proper management avoids loss by checking many factors such as the credit limit and blocking the order being processed if it violates the policies of the company. Salespersons are the key for company’s revenue, and their commissions should be taken care of upon completion of the sales cycle.
Lessons
Introduction:
- Lesson 1: Configure Method of Payment
- Lesson 2: Create and maintain Customer groups and customers
- Lesson 3: Create and configure customer posting profile
- Lesson 4: Process orders, invoices, and payments
- Lesson 5: Configure Accounts receivable charges
- Lesson 6: Manage credit and collections
- Lesson 7: Configure revenue recognition
- Module summary
- Knowledge Check
You have learned how to:
- Configure Method of Payment
- Describe and configure electronic payment formats
- Create and maintain Customer groups and customers
- Create and configure customer posting profile
- Process orders, invoices, and payments
- Configure Accounts receivable charges
- Manage credit and collections
- Configure revenue recognition
Module 7: Configure and manage budgeting
Every organisation, whether it is private or public, sets financial and operational goals by creating budgets. When the budget is established, management monitors the activities within the budget framework.
Lessons
Introduction:
- Lesson 1: Configure and use basic budgeting
- Lesson 2: Configure and use budget controls
- Lesson 3: Create and configure registry entries
- Lesson 4: Configure and use budget planning
- Module summary
- Knowledge Check
You have learned how to:
- Configure and manage Budgeting processes
- Configure budgeting components incl budget models, codes, allocation terms, cycles, transfer rules
- Configure budget controls including cycle time spans, budget parameters, budget fund availability - options, budget control rules and groups, and over-budget permissions
Implement budget workflows
- Create and configure registry entries
- Perform budget checks on documents and journals
- Create a budget plan including scenarios, stages, allocation stages, stage allocations, templates
- Define a budget planning process and plan a budget
Module 8: Configure and manage fixed assets
The way in which fixed assets are handled must correspond to both international accounting standards and the accounting legislation in each country/region. Requirements might include rules for recording acquisition and disposal transactions, depreciation, lifetimes, and write-ups and write-downs of fixed assets. The Fixed assets functionality incorporates many of these standards and rules.
Lessons
Introduction:
- Lesson 1: Configure Fixed assets components
- Lesson 2: Manage Fixed assets
- Lesson 3: Fixed asset acquisition, depreciation and disposal
- Lesson 4: Fixed asset integration
- Module summary
- Knowledge Check
You have learned how to:
- Implement and manage fixed assets
- Create fixed assets and fixed assets groups
- Describe and configure fixed asset books and depreciation
- Configure Fixed asset parameters
- Fixed asset acquisition and depreciation
- Fixed asset leasing
- Dual currency with Fixed assets
- Organization-wide fixed asset identifiers
- Fixed asset disposal
- Create fixed asset budgets and transfer the budgets to the budgeting module
- Estimate and perform an elimination of a project to a fixed asset
