Microsoft Dynamics GP for Dummies

by Renato Bellu

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 invoicesSet up vendors quickly and easilyCustomize GP fit your business perfectly and make the home page more efficientWork with the modules you'll use most often in the Purchasing, Sales, Inventory, and Financial seriesSafeguard your database and set up a disaster recovery plan containing all the right stepsUse Professional Services Tools and utilities to find and fix data discrepanciesGet inventory under controlClose your books at year end and use shortcuts to easily print reports from all the data you've collectedSave keystrokes with Quick Journal and batch frequencyLeverage the interoperability between Dynamics GP and Microsoft Office applicationsMake 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!

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

432 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 13, 2008

Reviews

[Mark Polino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Someone was kind enough to loan me a copy of the new Microsoft Dynamics GP for Dummies 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.[return][return]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.[return][return]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.[return][return]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?