We’re nearing the end of our blog series walking through videos comparing the differences and similarities in work processes between Dynamics GP and Dynamics 365 Business Central. Today, we’re looking at posting setup in GP and comparing that to the experience of defining posting groups in Business Central. If you missed the first ten posts, you can catch them at the links below:
Stay tuned for the next video in this series that will compare financial reporting tools between Dynamics GP and Business Central.
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Video transcript:
In this video, we’re going to take a look at posting setup in GP and compare that to the experience of defining posting groups and Business Central.
Setting up default posting accounts in GP helps simplify and reduce errors and inconsistencies when posting transactions. Once the accounts are set up they will default on transaction entry windows.
In this example, in the posting account setup window, we have defined accounts for all default accounts including the accounts receivable account.
If I go to one of the customers in GP, I can see that the customer is assigned to a specific class. In that class, we have categorized those transactions posted from customers in this class to use a different accounts receivable account, and then in rare cases, you can define more granularity and enter in unique accounts for individual customers. Similar logic can be applied to vendors and items.
Now let’s look at Business Central and how we configure posting accounts and define defaults. Business Central uses posting groups to tie customers, vendors and items to GL accounts.
There are several different types of posting groups in Business Central. Business posting groups focus on who you are buying and selling to. Product posting groups focus on what you are buying and selling.
Let’s take a closer look. In the business posting groups, you can group master data like customers into regions, segments, industries, or however your business wants to categorize sales and purchases for reporting.
Product posting groups again focus on what you sell or buy. Here you may distinguish on product line or by use for manufacturing, retail, or services.
Posting setup is where you pull these two concepts together, combining the what with the who. In this example, we are indicating who, our enterprise customers with the what, which is equipment, and then we can define sales, cost of goods sold accounts and other relevant accounts.
Now let’s look at a customer and see where we can assign these posting groups. On my customer card, I can see I have assigned the enterprise general business posting group and the customer posting group of Northeast. The customer group is where you define your AR and discount accounts.
Here we have organized our customers by region, similar to the classes we defined in GP. Now let’s create a sales invoice and see how the accounts all get defaulted onto transactions.
Similar to the customer posting groups, all items also have an inventory posting group. In the inventory posting group is where you can define accounts based on item classification and location.
Finally, let’s preview posting for the invoice so we can see the GL accounts that will be used when posting.
We can see the inventory account is pulled from the inventory posting group we just saw. The cost of goods sold and sales accounts are being pulled from posting set up where we define the what from the product posting group and the who from general business posting. Finally, the accounts receivable account from my customer posting group that looks similar to my customer class accounts from GP.
And that’s a look at how posting groups can be set up in Business Central with similar posting outcomes as GP.
