Agnieszka Parent / Lisa Pallasch 11 June 2013
System SmartLists Financials Fixed Assets Purchasing Sales Inventory Canadian Payroll 2
System: Quick Links F1 Printable Manuals Right Click Functionality Clean up of Auto Complete/Limit Auto Complete Metrics Quick Workflow Speed Date Entry Hot Keys Customizing the Toolbar Reprinting Posting Journals 3
System: Quick Links - Control your day to day activity without having to leave GP by adding all of you external programs and webpage links to your Quick Links on your Home Page - Right click on Quick Links section 4
System: F1 - Help on the go, available on, and custom tailored for, every window in GP - Click the F1 key to get help on any window and navigate through the fields, windows and buttons 5
System: Printable Manuals - PDF formats for all modules in GP - Click on the? Button on the top right of your home page and scroll down to the Printable Manuals menu option and then select the manual you would like to view/print/save 6
System: Right Click Functionality - Undo, cut, copy, paste etc at the click of a button GP2010 - On most text input fields, just right-click and select your menu option 7
System: Clean up of Auto Complete/Limit Auto Complete - Auto Complete is great, until you misspell something and are stuck with it in your drop down list, now you can get rid of it - When you see a misspelled or no longer required Auto Complete listing, simply right-click on it and select Remove from list - GP comes with a default Auto Complete setting of 1,000 listings, per user, per field which can be too much and may negatively impact performance over time. Limit this to fewer entries and by having them clear after 60 days of inactivity - MDGP User Preferences Auto Complete 8
System: Metrics - Display multiple metrics on your home page and drill down into an SSRS report 9
System: Quick Workflow - Build a quick workflow for your frequently performed functions like a cheque run - In your Navigation Pane, right-click and add a new folder and name it, then right-click and add the first GP window in the process, and continue until all windows are in the folder 10
System: Speed Date Entry - Use the day key to enter the day within the current month - In any date field enter the day number within the current month: ie entering 23 would give us June 23 rd, 2013 11
System: Hot Keys - Use hot keys for one key access into your frequently used windows - Home Page Right Click in Short Cut area 12
System: Customizing the Toolbar - You can customize the toolbar at the top of the screen to include shortcuts to the areas in Dynamics GP you use the most - Items you don t need on your tool bar related to other tasks, remove them - You can change the names of the shortcuts and customize to show not just icons but helpful text too - This toolbar will show up no matter where you are in Dynamics GP 13
System: Reprinting Posting Journals - You can reprint posting journals from most modules 14
SmartList Builder, Excel Builder and SmartLists: Duplicating with SmartList Builder Excel Report Builder Rename SmartList Columns Sorting by column Improve Lookups with SL Favourites SmartList Options 15
SmartList Builder, Excel Builder and SmartLists: Duplicating with SmartList Builder - Do you need a SmartList that holds a lot of the same information as one you ve already built? Just duplicate! This will save you a ton of time - Enter a new SmartList ID and go to: Options Duplicate 16
SmartList Builder, Excel Builder and SmartLists: Excel Report Builder - Much like SmartList Builder, Excel Report Builder allows you to pull data from all tables in GP and publish directly to an Excel file. Best part? It s live, so the data can be refreshed in the Excel file without having to push it from GP - MDGP Tools SmartList Builder Excel Report Builder 17
SmartList Builder, Excel Builder and SmartLists: SmartLists - Rename SmartList Columns - Customize your SmartList to make sense for you and your business by renaming the columns - Open a SmartList and click Columns, change a column name in the Display Name column and save the SmartList as a favourite 18
SmartList Builder, Excel Builder and SmartLists: SmartLists - Sorting by Column - Much like in Excel, you can sort your data by column by clicking on the column header 19
SmartList Builder, Excel Builder and SmartLists: SmartLists - Improve Lookups with SmartList Favourites - Employees may work with subsets of accounts, vendors, customers or jobs, build favourites that will produce only the data you re interested in 20
SmartList Builder, Excel Builder and SmartLists: SmartList Options - SmartList defaults can be defined in the SmartList Options window - Choose the Category you wish to set defaults for (this is the SmartList object name) - Ability to edit defaults for: - Go To - Maximum Records - Columns Displayed - Match Case - Go to Administration Setup System SmartList Options 21
Financial: Correcting Journal Entries Copying GL Distribution References Mass Close Allow Transaction Entry Multiple Reporting Ledgers Fixed Allocation Accounts Duplicate Journal Entries Check Posting Types Before Year End Daily Bank Reconciliation Reconcile Sub-ledgers to General Ledger Month End Tips 22
Financial: Correcting Journal Entries - Reverse and Replace your incorrect journal entries - Financials Transactions General Correct Back Out and Correct 23
Financial: Copying GL Distribution References - Easily copy your distribution references by using the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V function or the Right-Click function for clean and fast descriptions 24
Financial: Mass Close - Use Mass Close in fiscal periods to prevent certain types of entries without closing an entire series - Administration Setup Company Fiscal Periods Mass Close 25
Financial: Allow Transaction Entry - Control entry to certain G/L s by utilizing the Allow Transaction Entry feature to be turned off. This will force sub-ledger entries to certain accounts like AR and AP control accounts - Financial Cards Account key or lookup account and deselect Allow Transaction Entry 26
Financial: Multiple Reporting Ledgers - GP 2010 adds reporting ledgers for better financial reporting control including accounting under IFRS - Financial Set Up General Ledger Select Allow under Reporting Ledgers 27
Financial: Fixed Allocation Accounts - Save time during data entry by using fixed allocation accounts to do the math for you by entering a set percentage based on a GL account 28
Financial: Duplicate Journal Entries - Save data entry time by copying your existing journal entries - Financial Transactions General Copy 29
Financial: Check Posting Types Before Year End - It s important to verify that your posting types are correct prior to closing your year - Create a SmartList to view posting types associated with your accounts and correct prior to closing year 30
Financial: Daily Bank Reconciliation - With today s electronic access to your bank account, save yourself the monthly hassle of tackling a bank reconciliation by doing it daily - Download your statement, reconcile your bank account to zero, save and come back the next day 31
Financial: Reconcile Sub-ledgers to General Ledger - Use the Reconcile to GL window to generate a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that can help you match transactions in General Ledger with the originating transactions in Payables Management & Receivables Management 32
Financial: Month End Tips - Batch Recovery check your batch recovery screen prior to closing the month to ensure there are no erroneous batches un-posted - Administration Routines Batch recovery - Master Posting ensure all your batches are posted by reviewing your master posting screen - Administration Routines Master Posting 33
Fixed Assets: Separate Depreciation Posting Print Year End Reports Find Fixed Assets Transaction Details Undo Depreciation 34
Fixed Assets: Separate Depreciation Posting - Post Depreciation to the GL separately from New Assets and Retirements - Separating these allows easy review of Asset Additions/Retirement for correctness without having to wade through all of the depreciation posting entries 35
Fixed Assets: Print Year End Reports - The Fixed Asset module s biggest flaw is past years reporting - Print FA reports at year end and keep them somewhere safe - Consider printing a copy to an electronic file as well 36
Fixed Assets: Find Fixed Assets Transaction Details - The Fixed Asset Financial Detail window is a view into an asset s soul - Every FA transaction is shown in here including links back to the GL - Financial Inquiry Fixed Assets 37
Fixed Assets: Undo Depreciation - Depreciation can be backed out for one asset by running depreciation for a single asset and setting the date backwards - Financials Routines Depreciate One Asset, select the asset to undo depreciation for and set a new depreciation date 38
Purchasing: Prioritizing Vendors 3 Alphanumeric Digits Copy Purchase Orders Notes With Comments Show Only Invoices on Cheque Stubs 39
Purchasing: Prioritizing Vendors 3 Alphanumeric Digits - Payables Management includes a 3 digit alphanumeric field used to prioritize vendors - This field can be used to select vendors during the cheque selection process - Purchasing Cards Vendors Options Payment Priority 40
Purchasing: Copy Purchase Orders - If you realize that you need a P.O. that looks a lot like one you did last week, don't re-key all those lines, use the Create and Copy New PO button under Actions - Transactions Purchasing Purchase Order Entry, click the Actions button and pick Create and Copy New PO 41
Purchasing: Notes With Comments - Running out of space on your line item description, enter Comments without IDs 42
Purchasing: Show Only Invoices on Cheque Stubs - By default GP will print everything applied, including credit memos and even non-cheque payments made between the current cheque and the previous one - There are 2 ways to control this Globally for the entire company, or One Time for a particular cheque - Globally - change the Payables Management Setup - Tools Setup Purchasing Payables, change the List Documents on Remittance setting to Invoices Only and un-ticking the List Previously Applied Documents on Remittance ** Important note only cheques created after you make these changes will behave how you want because these settings control the behavior at the time of cheque creation - One Time - you have the option to Edit Cheques choosing this brings you to the Edit Payables Cheques window, deselect anything except invoices that this particular cheque is paying and only selected the items that will print on the cheque stub ** Important note - no setting is saved anywhere and only this one cheque is changed 43
Sales: Preventing Sale of Discontinued Items Speed up AR Aging by NOT Printing the Report Paid Transaction Removal Non-Inventory Sales Item Distribution Error 44
Sales: Preventing Sale of Discontinued Items - Discontinued items can be sold until gone by default. Typical advice is to write off items to prevent sale if necessary - Tools Setup Sales Sales Order Processing Options, Uncheck Allow Sales of Discontinued Items in the bottom grid area 45
Sales: Speed up AR Aging by NOT Printing the Report - The Receivables Aging process in GP can take some time if you have a lot of outstanding AR. This can be sped up by turning off the report - Sales Routines Aging - select the No Report option 46
Sales: Paid Transaction Removal - Turn this on to remove paid transactions and consolidate all balance forward transaction amounts and moves it to history - Sales Routines Paid Transaction Removals 47
Sales: Non-Inventory Sales Item Distribution Error - We ve all run into the distribution error while selling a non-inventoried item - Ensure you have the following accounts filled out on each line item to avoid it: - Inventory, Cost of Sales, Sales - Default the account that populate into the Sales document and your worries about this issue are over - Go to Tools Setup Posting Posting Accounts, choose 'Sales' in the drop down box and scroll down to the 'Non-inventoried Item' line and insert your inventory account there 48
Inventory: Historical Inventory Trial Balance Copy Inventory Item 49
Inventory: Historical Inventory Trial Balance - This report is designed to help balance Inventory to the GL regardless of the valuation method - Inventory Reports Activity 50
Inventory: Copy Inventory Item - Copying inventory items, or select parts of, will speed up your data entry - Inventory Cards Item enter item number and click Copy 51
Canadian Payroll: Checklists Voiding ROE Canada Savings Bonds Setup Reports Easy Mail Pay Stubs Mass Update Detail Adjustments 52
Canadian Payroll: Checklists - Build yourself a checklist to make payroll processing a breeze - HR & Payroll Routines Checklists enter the tasks one by one 53
Canadian Payroll: Voiding - Made a mistake and didn t realize until after you ve posted? Fix it with the click of a few buttons - HR & Payroll Utilities Void Payment 54
Canadian Payroll: ROE - Make ROE s painless by generating directly from Canadian Payroll all of your dates and amounts are populated for you - HR & Payroll Routines ROE Creation 55
Canadian Payroll: Canada Savings Bonds - Setup your Canada Savings Bonds deductions and file transmission directly in CPY - HR & Payroll Setup CSB Setup 56
Canadian Payroll: Setup Reports - Review your setup with out-of-the-box reports - HR & Payroll Reports Payroll Setup Setup Reports 57
Canadian Payroll: Mass Update - This feature will allow you to Mass update your employee rate on the employee cards and update the estimated Salary in HRIS. 58
Canadian Payroll: Easy Mail for Canadian Payroll - This feature allows you to email out Canadian Payroll Pay Stubs to your employee. 59
Canadian Payroll: Detail Adjustments - If you need to adjust CPP, EI or Tax for a Bonus or Quarterly pay run it s an easy override - HR & Payroll Transactions Payroll Adjustments Detail Adjustments 60
Bonus: Macros - Record macros to make a repetitive process faster - MDGP Tools Macros 61
BIOGRAPHY Agnieszka Parent Senior Consultant aparent@bdo.ca Direct: 519-824-5410 Ext. 3097 Mobile: 905-515-3485 Lisa Pallasch Consultant lpallasch@bdo.ca Direct: 519-824-5410 Ext. 3908 Mobile: 905-928-7655 62