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!

About the Author

Renato Bellu created the first Microsoft Dynamics GP practice for a major CPA firm and has been the technical lead on several large and complex implementations. At Avanade, a joint venture of Microsoft and Accenture, he collaborated on a project that received the prestigious Microsoft Pinnacle Award.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Part I: Great Things with Microsoft Dynamics GP 5 Chapter 1: What Microsoft Dynamics GP Does Best 7 Chapter 2: Getting Started with Microsoft Dynamics GP 29 Part II: Daily Entry Tasks 61 Chapter 3: Paying Bills 63 Chapter 4: Working with Purchase Orders 97 Chapter 5: Billing Your Customers 133 Chapter 6: Using the Sales Order Processing Module 159 Chapter 7: Cash Receipts and Collections 183 Chapter 8: All Roads Lead to the General Ledger 205 Chapter 9: Bank Recs (Not Bank Wrecks) 229 Chapter 10: Getting Inventory Under Control 241 Part III: Stuff You Do from Time to Time 267 Chapter 11: Closing the Books 269 Chapter 12: Analyzing Information through Inquiries, SmartLists, and Reports 281 Chapter 13: Using Utilities and the Professional Services Tools 301 Part IV: Administering and Extending Your Dynamics GP System 311 Chapter 14: Safeguarding Your Database 313 Chapter 15: Extending Dynamics GP's Functionality with Modifi cations & Customizations 329 Part V: The Part of Tens 341 Chapter 16: Implementation Pitfalls 343 Chapter 17: Most Useful Features 361 Appendix: Microsoft Dynamics GP Modules 367 Index 381