Before you can use Assisted Setup, you must create a company. There is an assisted setup to help you create your new company. There are two steps in the create company wizard. Step One first asks for a company name, and you choose the data that you want Business Central Read more…
Have you used Assisted Setup to get started using Business Central? Maybe you used Assisted Setup for a function or two like email setup or bank statement import. It has documents that you can read to understand the purpose of each function on the list. Once you’ve done the reading Read more…
So you use subcontractor work centers in routings for items that you produce and you find that the Planning Worksheet effectively creates your productions orders. Followed by the Subcontract Worksheet creating the associated purchase orders. Receipts from the purchase orders, create output entries against the production orders and life is Read more…
Inventory reconciliation for companies using production orders is not complete without discussing production order work-in-process (WIP). Flushing methods can impact when entries are made to WIP as can subcontract purchase orders. The following flow is based on manual flushing. Consumptions against a production order add dollars to WIP (debit for Read more…
If you have been using Business Central, you are probably acquainted with Recurring Journals. I’ve been using them for years, and users always get upset when I tell them that reversing journals are posted one day after the posting date in the journal. So a reversing journal posted 12/31/21 will Read more…
If you have been using Business Central, you are probably acquainted with Recurring Journals. But wow, the new options for BD Balance by Dimension and RBD Reverse Balance by Dimension have so many uses! Need to allocate an amount posted to one dimension to many dimensions? Maybe you record professional Read more…
Recurring Journals have features that you may not be using but can be helpful. I just finished two blogs, one on Balance by Dimension and one on Reverse Date Calculation. Let’s review Allocations and Expiration Dates; two features that can be very useful even if used often. A scenario where Read more…
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Ever been told ‘take a minute to do it right the first time’? This old adage keeps you from having to redo things over and over. And exactly what using deferrals in BC can do. Rather than having to remember to post recurring journals for all those prepaid expenses, why Read more…
First thought, is ‘how can a date be abnormal?’ A date is a date, right? Well, the point is that it’s abnormal to have an invoice date on a purchase order before the receipt date of the product. Okay, I realize that for many of us this is not true, Read more…