Microsoft Dynamics NAV enables you to manage all common finance processes and information, such as posting financial transactions, preparing financial statements, managing bank accounts, inventory costs, manufacturing costs, and fixed assets.
When you create a new company, you must set up the chart of accounts and configure the posting processes. After the finance processes are configured, you can configure the sales and purchasing processes.
The following table describes a sequence of tasks, with links to the topics that describe them. These tasks are listed in the order in which they are generally performed.
| To | See |
|---|---|
Set up the chart of accounts, currencies, bank accounts, and rules and defaults for managing financial transactions. | |
Create and adjust purchase invoices, post payments, and apply payments to invoices. | |
Create sales invoices, post receipts, and apply receipts to invoices. | |
Manage purchase returns and supplier refunds. | |
Make sure revenues and expenses are recognized in the relevant accounting periods and not in the period in which the transaction is posted. | |
Manage bank accounts. | |
Understand the costs of running your business. | |
Understand the flow of cash in and out of your company. | |
Use intercompany documents and journals to minimize data entry when you post transactions between intercompany partners. | |
Manage inventory and manufacturing costs, report costs, and reconcile costs with the general ledger. | |
Acquire, maintain, insure, split, combine, revalue, depreciate, or dispose of fixed assets. | |
Close an accounting period, register prior-year entries, and transfer balances from the income statement account to the balance sheet. | |
Fill in and post general journals and recurring journals. |