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M8344: Great Plains V8.0 General Ledger I

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Course Duration: 1 day

Course Code: M8344

Course Description:

The one-day Microsoft Business Solutions – Great Plains® General Ledger course explores the accounting cycle and the processes required to enter financial data into the system. As well, this course will show you how to perform additional functions such as account reconciliation, budgeting, allocation, period-end and year-end closing procedures.

A thorough understanding of these topics allows you to streamline monthly and year-end closing processes by learning how to automate routine activities such as account allocations, and reports. You will learn how to accelerate data entry with transaction batch options while reducing data entry errors. This course will also teach you how to define default values that automatically populate data fields and gather the information you need to make better business decisions by exploring powerful inquiry and reporting options.

Customers wishing to learn the basic features and to develop a working knowledge of the typical day-to-day procedures required to effectively use Great Plains General Ledger.

The class is targeted toward data entry clerks, administrators; office managers, CEO’s, and consultants who need to understand the technical aspects of Microsoft Business Solutions – Great Plains® Foundation and gain foundational knowledge of the application functionality.

Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, students must have:

- General knowledge of Microsoft Windows®
- Completed the Great Plains Tutorial
- Basic knowledge of accounting principles

This course includes the following modules:

Introduction

• General Ledger Features and Benefits
• General Ledger Overview and Roadmap
• Integration

Setup Procedures

• General Ledger Setup Checklist
• Company and Posting Setup Procedures
• General Ledger Setup
• Account Categories
• Posting Accounts Setup
• Unit Accounts Setup
• Fixed Allocation Account Setup
• Variable Allocation Account Setup
• Mass Modify Chart of Accounts
• Account Segment Setup
• Retained Earnings Account Setup
• Setting up Budgets
• Excel-based Budgeting
• Budget Maintenance
• Quick Journal Setup
• Transaction Matching Setup
• General Ledger Setup Reports
• Entering Beginning Balances

Daily Procedures

• Transaction Entry Overview
• Standard and Reversing Transactions
• Batch Entry
• Calculate Taxes in General Ledger
• Post Transaction
• Clearing Transactions
• Quick Journal Entries
• Linking Transactions
• Batch Recovery

Intercompany

• Intercompany Processing overview
• Defining Intercompany relationships
• Entering General Ledger Intercompany Transactions
• Posting Intercompany Transactions in the Destination Company
• Viewing the Intercompany Transactions in Inquiry

To make an enquiry for this course to be run ONSITE at your location, click here or call Sales on +44 (0) 20 7620 0033.

Perpetual Solutions are a global provider of onsite training solutions throughout London, UK and the rest of the world. For scheduled training our UK partner network provides an unrivalled choice of courses.

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