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Microsoft Dynamics GP For Dummies [Paperback]

Renato Bellu (Author)
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0470388358 978-0470388358 October 13, 2008 1
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

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.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (October 13, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470388358
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470388358
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #65,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for New GP Users, October 28, 2008
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This review is from: Microsoft Dynamics GP For Dummies (Paperback)
Someone was kind enough to loan me a copy of the new Microsoft Dynamics GP For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) book to review. I have to say that I found that the book provided surprisingly complete coverage of the core financial and distribution modules along with some interesting nuggets, such as coverage of the PSTL tools and brief coverage of Modifier. I found most of the advice to be right on including advice about not changing general journal information when posting through, void the sub-ledger transaction instead.

It won't replace a good consultant of course. No book does a good enough job on the why behind the setup decisions you'll need to make. But as a Microsoft MVP for Dynamics GP I'm always happy to see something that makes things easier for users.

My only quibble is that there was no coverage of the Journal Entry Correction functionality. It would have only taken an extra page or two in the book and seemed like a glaring omission given the coverage of other items in the book. But as I said, that's a quibble.

I have to recommend this book for new users. It's cheap enough and and it's a much easier read than the GP manuals. Why can't software companies write user manuals this way?

Mark Polino, CPA, Microsoft MVP Dynamics GP
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Explains Microsoft Dynamics GP well, December 28, 2008
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I'm a new user of Dynamics Great Plains. Here are some items I found helpful in this book:

-There are lots of screen shots for the windows that are being discussed.
-Several areas of step by step instructions tell the reader how to get things done.
-The reader is given the chapter numbers in the GP manuals to turn to for more information. Users and IT people working with Great Plains will probably need more information to successfully use and implement this ERP software.
-The part of tens (and other areas of the book as well) explains what to do, what not to do, and what to avoid when using and implementing Great Plains.

I was looking for more info on the Modifier and Extender modules. These modules were briefly explained in Chapter 15. I was pleased to find out that Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) can be used to customize Dynamics GP. More customization examples would have been helpful.

The book was well organized, and the author gives lots of good info on using this ERP software successfully.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Plains Guide, July 14, 2010
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This book not only helps me on my day to day questions in GP, but also assisted me in the entire implementation into my company. Very easy step by step instructions with actual freeze frames of what you will be looking at.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
general ledger, bank reconciliation, purchase order entry, aged trial balance, receivables management, batch total, company setup, implementation pitfalls, item maintenance, retained earnings, report destination, use the lookup, purchase price variance, database maintenance plan, default site, item card, urgent orders, green phone, receipt number, group members, credit memos, screen output, unapplied credit amounts, open item customers, audit trail codes
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Microsoft Dynamics, File Edit Tools Help, Daily Entry Tasks, Great Things, Sales Transaction Entry, Inventory Control, Click Save, Date Field, Getting Started, Setup Checklist, Item Number, Paying Bills, Closed Standard, Click the Lookup, Quick Journal Entry, Professional Services Tools Library, Repeat Steps, Payables Batch Entry, Multicurrency Management, All Roads Lead, Accounts Payable, Choose Save, Due Date, Accounts Receivable, Getting Inventory Under Control
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