Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
- Published by: For Dummies October 13, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0470388358
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470388358
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Description
If you’re accountable for accounting in a mid-level business,
Microsoft Dynamics GP accounting
software can be your friend.
Microsoft Dynamics GP For Dummies improves the friendship by highlighting the most useful and practical features, dispelling the most common misconceptions, and letting you in on the best tips and tricks — all in plain English!
Microsoft Dynamics GP For Dummies shows you how to set up and use this modular accounting program. You’ll learn to customize Dynamics Great Plains, get around the program, create a company, build an effective chart of accounts, and maintain a general ledger. You’ll find out how to:
- Create invoices and bill your customers, manage receipts, and easily match payments to invoices
- Set up vendors quickly and easily
- Customize GP fit your business perfectly and make the home page more efficient
- Work with the modules you’ll use most often in the Purchasing, Sales, Inventory, and Financial series
- Safeguard your database and set up a disaster recovery plan containing all the right steps
- Use Professional Services Tools and utilities to find and fix data discrepancies
- Get inventory under control
- Close your books at year end and use shortcuts to easily print reports from all the data you’ve collected
- Save keystrokes with Quick Journal and batch frequency
- Leverage the interoperability between Dynamics GP and Microsoft Office applications
- Make upgrading hassle-free
Microsoft Dynamics GP For Dummies helps you make this sometimes-complex program do your bidding, which might account for your rising popularity in the office!
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Dispel myths and reap
the benefits of this robust accounting software!
If you're like most business people, accounting is the last thing you want to spend lots of time doing. This friendly, no-nonsense guide gets you up to speed, highlighting the most useful and practical features, disproving common misconceptions, and letting you in on the best tips and tricks - all in plain English!
The plain truth - see how to set up Dynamics GP, get around the program, create a company, and build an effective chart of accounts
Module madness - get the details on the modules you'll use most often in the Purchasing, Sales, Inventory, and Financial series
Collect - bill customers, manage receipts, and easily match payments to invoices
Bank reconciliation - track processed payments and deposits against your bank statements
Year-end stuff - close your books and print reports from all the data you've collected
Keep data up to date - use Professional Services Tools and utilities to find and fix data discrepancies
Lock it down - discover how to protect your database and set up a disaster recovery plan
It's in the Office - leverage the interoperability between Dynamics GP and Microsoft Office applications
Customize - make GP fit your business perfectly
Open the book and find:
How to make SmartList work for you
Set-up tips to make GP's home page more efficient
All about the Customer Card
Ways to set up vendors quickly and easily
How to save keystrokes with Quick Journal and batch frequency
Shortcuts for easy report printing
Secrets of a hassle-free upgrade
What your disaster recovery plan should contain