Accounting and Financial Outsourcing

Article Dean Dorton

The management console is a web application that gives you the control you need to manage your web client environment. You can manage users, sessions, initiate session logging, and manage application tenant configuration through the Session Manager and Tenant Manager. The extensible snap in model of the console also gives ISVs and application developers the opportunity to create custom snap ins to give you even more control of your web client environment.

In other words, you can see who is logged in, how long they have been in, what company/tenant they are using. You can also kick them out if you want.

Here’s what it looks like:

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Article Dean Dorton

The wonderful Microsoft support team has created training video to help you get ready for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Service Pack 2. This is a great way to get up to speed on what was released. I challenge you to leverage this new functionality!

What’s new in Analytical Accounting? – Check out the video!

Direct from customer feedback, top voted features for Human Resource and Payroll added to GP 2013 service pack 2!! – Check out the video!

What are you missing about the cool new Document Attach? – Check out the video!

This is a must read about what is new in Visual Studio Tools. – Check out the video!

Did you hear about that new reporting tool SmartList Designer? If not, this is a must see! – Check out the video!

Source support blog post: https://community.dynamics.com/gp/b/dynamicsgp/archive/2013/09/26/microsoft-dynamics-gp-2013-service-pack-2-new-feature-blog-series-schedule.aspx

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Article Dean Dorton

With nonprofit Certified Public Accountants still facing challenges stemming from the 2008 financial crisis, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”) has pinpointed significant developments that reflect such obstacles. At its Not-for-Profit Industry Conference last Thursday, the AICPA noted the following current happenings:

  • The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s proposal that enhances financial reporting disclosures will be issued as an exposure draft later this year.
  • Consistent organization policies on gifts and ethics must be implemented.
  • Younger nonprofit donors need more details on where their contributions are being spent.
  • To offer performance information, several nonprofits are testing quarterly earnings calls.
  • The middle class continues to struggle in its recovery from the financial crisis.
  • The impact of public perception of overhead rations causing nonprofits to be unable to meet their missions, also referred to as a “starvation cycle.”

To read the developments in depth, click here.

Article Dean Dorton

With the recent release of GP 2013 R2 comes some exciting new features! One of them gives us the ability to copy data from an Excel file and paste into the GL as a journal entry.

To do this, we may highlight and copy the data from Excel, and then choose the Paste button in the GL Transaction Entry window. A validation report will print to identify any errors in the data copied into the GL.

In the Excel file, there are 4 columns that must be present as follows:

  • Description: This is the Description of the transaction that will appear in the Distribution Reference field when imported. It is not required, but the column must be present within the file.
  • Account: GL account number that we’re posting to.
  • Debit: Enter the debit amount for the account.
  • Credit: Enter the credit amount for the account.

 

Article Dean Dorton

Have you been thinking about adding more users or new functionality to your current Microsoft Dynamics GP solution?  Well, now is the time to buy!

Microsoft has just announced that they will be making some big changes to their pricing starting July 1st, 2014. Microsoft has decided to realign the Dynamics GP  user prices across versions and licensing models effective July 1, 2014, resulting in a price increase for additional users you might need in the future. So, if you think that you will need more users in the next 6 to 12 months, there is no better time to buy those users than now.

How will this affect you?

If you are currently on Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 the following price changes apply to you:

  • 10% or MORE PRICE INCREASE. This change impacts customers that are on the Professional Modular licensing as well as the Starter Pack, the Extended Pack, all Client Access License types, and all modules available through the Perpetual Licensing model, except Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition Runtime licenses.

BUY NOW and take advantage of the current Microsoft Dynamics Pricing before those user and module prices go up on July 1, 2014.

If you have NOT upgraded to Dynamics GP 2013 yet, price changes depend on which legacy pricing model you are on. To find out more about how you can save, please contact us via email or phone at 919-875-9635 extension 1.

Article Dean Dorton

Fixed Assets in Dynamics GP is a full-function fixed assets system that’s included as part of the financial area.

The fixed assets module is well integrated with the rest of GP. On the procurement end you can identify a fixed asset in the PO process and the payables process. This creates a nice audit trail from each asset, to the procurement transaction related to the asset’s acquisition. There is also a tight integration with the general ledger that accurately records all depreciation, movement, and disposition transactions.

The reporting is list based and is well suited for typical requirements, e.g. asset listings by state/county, inventory lists with asset costs and net values, insured property list, etc.