Financial Management in Microsoft Dynamics GP

Make Your Financial Management Process Work for Your Business

Microsoft Dynamics GP offers financial management functions that help you reduce time spent on routine tasks. With tight integration between modules in Microsoft Dynamics GP, you can enter data one time and provide accurate, real-time information throughout your financial solution. With ready access to mission-critical data, your financial solution becomes a powerful competitive tool that enhances decision-making.

Manage Your Finances in the Way That’s Best for Your Business

Microsoft Dynamics GP helps you track, manage, and analyze financial information and includes tools and accounting structures that you can adjust to best serve your needs.

• Provide a RoleTailored experience. The unique Microsoft Dynamics GP RoleTailored interface works with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to make relevant information and actions easily accessible.
• Access critical information any time. Integrated functionality across financials provides you with the freedom you need to quickly access needed details and to run inquiries.
• Handle multiple currencies. Microsoft Dynamics GP offers robust multicurrency support for international business. The Multicurrency Management module in Microsoft Dynamics GP gives you the ability to complete financial transactions in numerous currencies, without having to worry about ever-changing exchange rates.
• Create and store customized queries. Microsoft Dynamics GP allows your employees to create and store an unlimited number of user-defined queries to help save time and minimize effort.

Increase Efficiency of Accounting Tasks

Microsoft Dynamics GP frees your people to focus on work that adds value to your business, with a tightly integrated financial and supply chain solution that works like and with Microsoft Office system applications.

• Close period-ending reports faster. Help save time and money, and achieve greater return-on-investment by incorporating data directly from one module to another. The General Ledger in Microsoft Dynamics GP also offers full audit control so your financial professionals can reduce transaction entry steps and increase accuracy.
• Work with an intuitive, productivity-enhancing interface. Microsoft Dynamics GP features an action pane inspired by the Ribbon feature in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and appears across all navigation lists.
• Provide online access. Reduce paper waste and repetitive manual data entry by moving routine accounting tasks online with the eBanking and eExpense modules in Microsoft Dynamics GP.
• Automate routine tasks. Increased automation in Microsoft Dynamics GP allows your employees to focus their energies on mission-critical issues and minimize time spent on routine tasks.

Gain Insight to Make Informed Decisions

Get the answers you and your employees need to make better business decisions, with comprehensive reports and easy-to-use inquiry tools in Microsoft Dynamics GP.

• Easily access customer information. Comprehensive customer tracking in Microsoft Dynamics GP helps your employees answer customer questions promptly and accurately.
• Set up automated notifications. Automated notifications in Microsoft Dynamics GP help keep you informed of the latest updates on accounts and financial triggers.
• Access the details. Microsoft Dynamics GP incorporates data from across your operation so you have quick access to complete information.
• Benefit from Microsoft Office Excel. Generate multi-level reports in Office Excel for easy manipulation, integration of non-accounting business data, and enhanced presentation. Microsoft Dynamics GP also works with the Office Excel PivotTable Creator to analyze business data.
• Create and distribute informative reports. The Analytical Accounting module in Microsoft Dynamics GP allows you to analyze reports in multiple formats and from multiple angles, including user-defined transaction dimensions.
• Improve timeliness of data with online access. Online functionality with eBanking improves access to critical decision-driving information.
• Organize data views. Focus on the financial data that you need to make better business decisions. Organize views by date, account, or other criteria to see pertinent information only.

Help Improve Security and Control Over Your Financial Management

Microsoft Dynamics GP offers a number of security and audit features to help you comply with government regulations and protect your financial information.

• Simplify audits by working from one database. Microsoft Dynamics GP utilizes the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database so that you can present a consistent view of your finances to auditors.
• Take advantage of built-in internal controls. Microsoft Dynamics GP incorporates audit trails for the accountability and oversight required by Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. Also, Microsoft Dynamics GP provides enforced password expirations and secure password rules when implemented in a Windows Server 2003 domain using SQL Server 2005.
• More secure online functionality. Manage your electronic banking in a security-enhanced environment that includes increased protection through check comparison, easy exception handling, and automated transaction matching.
• Benefit from automated workflow. With new workflow capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can more effectively control and automate approvals for payables and receivables.