Microsoft Dynamics GP - Great Plains General Ledger
Manage the financial heart of your business with intelligent accounting and analysis capabilities that
make your finances work for you, giving you the vital information you need and changing
the way you do business for the better.
Master Your Financial Data
Take control of your financial information through advanced financial analysis capabilities
that show you not only where you stand right now, but where you'll be in the future.
Improve Your Decision-Making
Get the answers you need to make better business decisions with comprehensive reports
and easy-to-use inquiry tools that facilitate rapid, accurate analysis of your business
operations.
Streamline Your Accounting
Manage your accounting more efficiently with flexible accounting tools and automated
transaction processing that saves time and simplifies the way you handle your money,
whether coming in or going out.
Customize to Your Needs
Track and analyze your financials in the way that best suits your business—not someone
else's—with tools and accounting structures that you design yourself to serve your
needs.
Improve Your Efficiency
Empower your employees with a straightforward, consistent focus for managing accounting
data that lowers administrative costs and gives you tight control over the financial
heart of your business.
Seamless Integration
Expand your business potential by using General Ledger to tap into information in
other Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains® applications and include it in
accounting or analysis tasks.
Focus On: Comprehensive Accounting Tools
From flexible account options to intelligent transaction processing, the comprehensive
accounting tools in General Ledger will allow you to capture and analyze vital financial
information so you know where you've been and can chart where you're going.
Flexible Accounting and Financial Tracking Capabilities Include:
- User-defined account structures
- Personalized shortcut navigation
- Unlimited budget tracking for each account
- Non-financial information capture that's linked to accounts but not recorded in
your general ledger
- Easy-to-define fiscal periods
- Cross-module transaction auditing
- General, recurring, and auto-reversing entries for simplified transaction management
- Efficient multicurrency handling, with full control over transactions in either
the originating or functional (home) currencies
Expand Your Financial Capabilities with Multidimensional Analysis
As an optional module for General Ledger, Multidimensional Analysis gives you the
power to analyze your financial information any way you want, without adding complexity
to your chart of accounts.
Multidimensional Analysis Features Include:
- Flexible Project Definition: Define any type of analysis grouping you need, including
department, product lines, regions, or employees, and set up an unlimited number
of analysis codes to analyze any facet of your business.
- Integrated Analysis Information: Automatically include transaction information from
other Great Plains applications in your analysis, including Receivables or Payables
Management, Invoicing, and Purchase Order Processing.
- System-wide Analysis: Perform analysis or drill down to greater detail through inquiry
windows including Invoice Distributions Inquiry, Journal Number Inquiry, Payables
Distribution, Transaction Entry, and Sales Distribution Inquiry.
- Unlimited Analysis Groups: Create unlimited projects and associate those projects
with the appropriate revenue and expense accounts.
- Multidimensional Transaction Tracking: Track quantities as well as currency amounts
from transactions and use default percentages to automatically record how much of
each transaction should be shared among several projects.
Great Plains General Ledger Features List
General Ledger
- Design an accounting structure to suit your business or create unique structures
for each company in your organization, with extensive flexibility and structures
up to 66 characters long, and up to 10 segments of any length.
- Manage accounts and transactions with unlimited flexibility using user-defined accounting
structures, definable fiscal periods, prior-year adjustments, batch posting, cross-module
auditing, and more.
- Easily create default budget templates complete with accounts, descriptions, and
default amounts in Microsoft Excel, and then export and import budgets to and from
Excel through an interactive wizard.
- Improve advanced financial analysis capabilities by modifying existing General Ledger
financial reports or creating new reports, with unit-account information, comparative
analysis, and complete graphical support.
- Easily create comprehensive reports consolidating information from multiple companies,
provisional transactions, or define new reporting relationships with
FRX® Desktop.
- Find and analyze the exact information you need through General Ledger's seamless
integration with other Great Plains applications such as Receivables or Payables
Management, Invoicing, Sales Order Processing, and Crystal Reports®.
Multidimensional Analysis
- Define any type of grouping you need, including departments, product lines, and
regions, and set up unlimited analysis codes to analyze any facet of your business
without reformatting your chart of accounts.
- Automatically allocate transaction amounts to different groups or projects for posting
to Multidimensional Analysis tables for reporting and complete analysis capabilities.
Account Level Security
- Filter account views based on access granted for accounts, increasing security and
eliminating errors caused when entries are made to inappropriate accounts.
Intercompany
- Manage single-use or recurring transactions between companies in your organization,
with unlimited flexibility in defining Intercompany relationships and streamlined
account distributions per journal entry.
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