Microsoft Dynamics GP for Dummies

By Renato Bellu

Book Overview

If you're accountable for accounting in a mid-level business, Microsoft Dynamics GP accounting software can be your best 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

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470388358
• ISBN13: 9780470388358
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Intro for Dynamics GP

This book is a good introduction for those new to Microsoft Dynamics GP or those considering it as a potential solution. - Tim Hourigan, Armanino McKenna Microsoft Dynamics GP Practice Lead [...]

Explains Microsoft Dynamics GP well

5 stars 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.

Great Book for New GP Users

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