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Aug 27, 2008 17:22

Accounting Cost vs. True Cost

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, when doing costing and profitability analysis, you need to differentiate between a transaction's True Cost and Accounting Cost. Don't bother looking up these terms in the manual, I made them up for a lack of better terms. To better explain the difference between True...
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Jan 28, 2008 10:23

Sharing the Item table in version 5.0

If you're in an environment where you have multiple companies setup and each company uses the same items, you might be tempted to share the item table across all companies. In versions prior to 5.0, you can get away with this since the Adjust Cost process are done using the Item Ledger and Item Application...
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Nov 20, 2007 16:48

Abnormal Posting Dates

Abnormal posting date entries happens when the Posting Date of the receipt/shipments of inventory is after the Posting Date of the invoice. Why does this happen? You'll need to ask your CFO or Controller. Typically, I found this more in return orders where the receipt of the product is a certain...
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Nov 6, 2007 20:16

Entering Beginning Inventory Balance

When moving from a legacy system into Dynamics NAV (Navision), one of the areas you want to try and avoid is messing with the inventory G/L accounts. Most systems are usually pretty good with open A/R and A/P accounts, they can be transferred using the "posting back to the same account" technique...
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