Mark Polino's Blog, page 240
May 1, 2012
Information about tax calculations in Project Accounting in Microsoft Dynamics GP
From the Knowledge Base comes a great download with Information about tax calculations in Project Accounting in Microsoft Dynamics GP
An Inside Look with Brian Meier - Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP
In a new video, Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP has an An Inside Look with Brian Meier.
I know Brian as my co-presenter in the GP general session. You’ll learn that he’s also Mr. Business analyzer.
Dynamic Future–Vote - Unit Account should have the option to clear at year end
I’m starting a new feature here at DynamicAccounting.net. Every Tuesday I will link to a worthy suggested feature in Microsoft Connect. Connect is used by the GP team to decide what to put in future releases and users have the opportunity to add suggestions and vote on existing items. Both users and the GP team have their complaints and I’m hoping this will help. Specifically:
The GP team says too few people vote on feature suggestions Users say that it’s hard to find the existing suggestion for their need so they just create a new one. This leads to orphaned requests. Users say that they don’t have time to go through suggestions and find items to vote on. They are too busy working.To address this, I’m highlighting one feature per week. If you don’t think that a particular feature is important, don’t vote on it. If you want the highlighted feature in a future release, vote early and vote often.Well, you can only vote once because you need a Windows Live id to vote but you can enlist your co-workers.
You can actually vote an item up or down so if you think something is a bad idea or a poor use of the development team’s resources, you can share that too. This similar to “Like” and “Unlike”. Something Facebook doesn’t give you but the GP team does.
I’m hoping that by increasing visibility and making it easy to vote that we’ll get greater participation. If you don’t vote, the GP team might end up using my suggestions instead of yours.
Our first suggestion is item 495924 and the recommendation is “I would like the ability to reset the balances on unit accounts at the end of every financial year via year-end close.”
I agree. A lot of people would like the option to have certain unit account balances clear at year end, in short, they should behave like financial accounts with a checkbox to determine if they clear at year end or not.
April 30, 2012
How to Prepare Microsoft Dynamics GP for a Multi-National Deployment, Part 2 - Typical Setup Challenges | MSDynamicsWorld.com
Ian Grieve continues with part 2 of his excellent series on How to Prepare Microsoft Dynamics GP for a Multi-National Deployment, Part 2 - Typical Setup Challenges
CPM, Financial Statement Analysis and the Grumpy Old Accountants
At Decisions 2012 (free registration) I’m presenting an introduction to Corporate Performance Management (CPM). We will look at what CPM is, what it isn’t and see some representative software options for the mid-market.
CPM can help you better manage your planning, budgeting, reporting and forecasting process. In the end, one output of CPM is a set of financial statements. But what do those financial statements REALLY say about your company?
If you’re intrigued by financial statement analysis, or simply want to know if you’re ailing company is going to survive the next two quarters, I’ve become a fan of Grumpy Old Accountants and recommend that you check them out as well.
Their analysis of Groupon in particular was a fun read, especially when contrasted with Facebook. We make choices about how we treat and present financial information. Our choices say a lot about our organizations.
Microsoft Dynamics® GP Notes and Attachments | DynamicsCare
My colleague Kalyn Kelly has a great new webinar up on DynamicsCare with a look at Microsoft Dynamics® GP Notes and Attachments.
Check it out. You might learn something.
Weekly Dynamic: Minimizing the use of 'sa' in Microsoft Dynamics GP
I’m going to save myself some work and just point you to his document.
April 27, 2012
Friday Fun: Project Plan
I think I was on this project.
