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IT Vendor Courses   Microsoft Great Plains Training Courses

M8342: Great Plains V8.0 Fixed Assets

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Course Duration: 1 day

Course Code: M8342

Course Description:

The one-day Microsoft Business Solutions – Great Plains® Fixed Assets course delves into the accounting cycle and the processes required to enter, depreciate and retire fixed assets. As well, this course will show you how to perform additional functions such as changing asset information, mass changes, partial transfers, partial retirements and retirement undo.

 

You will gain a thorough understanding of these topics which will allow you to keep accurate records and learn to use comprehensive reporting features to present data in different ways. 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 lookup functions.

 

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 Fixed Assets.

 

The class is targeted toward data entry clerks, administrators; office managers, CEO’s, and consultants who need to understand the technical aspects of Fixed Assets 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

• What is a Fixed Asset?
• Fixed Assets Features and Benefits
• Fixed Assets Overview and Roadmap
• Integration

Setup Procedures

• Fixed Assets Setup Checklist
• Company and Financial Setup Procedures
• Build Fixed Assets Fiscal Calendar File
• Enter Quarter Records and Synchronize to Fiscal Years
• Purchasing Interface Options
• Account Groups
• Post Accounts
• Insurance Class Records
• Class Records
• Book Records
• Book Class Records
• Fixed Assets Setup
• Lease Company Records
• Location Records
• Physical Location Records
• Retirement Setup Records
• Structure Records
• Fixed Assets User Preferences
• Fixed Assets Setup Reports
• Entering Existing Assets

Daily Procedures

• Fixed Assets Daily Procedures Checklist
• Asset General Information
• Asset Account Information
• Asset Book Information
• Asset Book ITC Information
• Asset Insurance Records
• Asset Lease Information
• Asset User Data
• Payables Management Interface
• Purchase Order Processing Interface
• Purchasing Transactions Integration Issues
• Fixed Assets Inventory Reports

Maintaining Records

• Select Assets
• Depreciation Projections for a single asset or group of assets
• Changing Asset Information
• Changing Asset Book Information
• Mass Change
• Transferring Assets
• Mass Transfer
• Retiring Assets
• Mass Retirement
• Retire Undo
• File Maintenance
• Deleting Assets
• Reconcile
• Retrieve Information
• Fixed Assets Projection, Transaction and Utility Reports

 

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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