How to collect financial data by sites in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations

Let’s say you work for a company that has a few sites. The company uses MS Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (aka D365FO). The chief financial officer of the company has a requirement to collect costs of goods sold (aka COGS) and revenues by sites of the company. It is needed to report margin individually for each site. You are in charge of resolving this request. In this blog post I will show you how the requirement can be met.

This post is also applicable to MS Dynamics AX 2012 (aka AX 2012, or DAX 2012).

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Financial dimension values flow in D365FO. Materials and batch order example

MS Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (aka D365FO) offers a very strong financial functionality. A company can collect financial data in different dimensions. For example collecting data for overhead expenses and adding a cost center for every ledger entry.

D365FO allows setting default values for different master records like products, vendors, customers, and so on. As an example, a cost center can be set on all finished goods items and materials consumed. These values go to the ledger by default.

In this post, I will show you how the default values go to the ledger. I use D365FO batch order functionality to demonstrate how it works. Continue reading “Financial dimension values flow in D365FO. Materials and batch order example” →

Purchase: ledger entry setup in AX 2012

This post is about ledger postings setup regarding purchasing in Dynamics AX 2012. The system has a lot of places where ledger accounts can be set. In this post I show you important places where account must be set. It will help to post purchasing smoothly. Continue reading “Purchase: ledger entry setup in AX 2012” →

Ledger entry setup for sales in AX 2012

There are a lot of places were you need to set ledger accounts in Dynamics AX 2012. This post is about setup regarding sales. I walk you through setting you need to make sales postings accurate. Continue reading “Ledger entry setup for sales in AX 2012” →

How to set up standard costing in AX 2012. Steps to follow for direct materials

You are serving a manufacturing company. You are in charge of implementation of standards costing by leveraging Dynamics AX 2012. You would like to gain insights of that functionality.

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Standard costing. Or how to control costs of production

Every company wants to achieve a high level of profit. Costs of production is a factor that can easily destroy the plan. It can be tricky to control those costs as they depend on prices and quantities of materials used, cost and hours of labor involved, and overhead costs.

The solution to manage that control has been available since at least the 1920s. At that time standard costing was introduced. A standard costing system helps you to take over control of manufacturing costs. Implementation of standard costing by leveraging modern Information Technology makes this control much easier, more efficient, and more affordable. Continue reading “Standard costing. Or how to control costs of production” →

Ledger entries setup approach

It’s been a long time since accountants kept journals on paper and posted amounts to a ledger book. Modern bookkeeping software creates general ledger entries automatically based on the business operations performed. In order to be able to post an entry, the usual need is to set up which account should be used for the exact operation in the software. In this post I would like to share the approach I usually follow to set up ledger postings in Dynamics 365 for Operations (aka Dynamics AX or Axapta).
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Author: Vadim Vdovin