Course MB-310T03-A: Configure and use budgeting, fixed assets, and additional functionality in Finance and Operations

Every organization, whether it is private or public, sets financial and operational goals by creating budgets. When the budget is established, management monitors the activities within the budget framework. This module provides information about the how to configure and use basic budgeting and budget control.
Lessons

• Introduction
• Configure basic budgeting components
• Configure budget control components
• Create and test budget registry entries
• Use inquiries and reports
• Practice Labs
• Module summary

With budget planning functionality you can consolidate multiple budget plans from a lower level into a single parent budget plan at a higher level in the organization. This is called bottom up approach budget planning which allows a budget planner to aggregate other plans into a high level or corporate plan for budgeting. You can also take the top down approach which requires developing a single budget plan at a higher level of the organization and allocate the budget to lower levels of the organization. Use this method when you rely on historical financial transactions of your company and create a centralized plan which can be allocated throughout different operating units defined by an organization hierarchy with Budget planning purpose. The budget planner as a final step of the budget planning, generates the budget register entry based on budget plan. An organization can configure budget planning, and then set up budget planning collaborative processes to meet its policies, procedures, and requirements for budget preparation. This topic explains how to configure and test Budget planning processes.
Lessons

• Introduction
• Configure budget plannign components
• Practice Lab
• Module summary

This module starts with explaining fixed assets concepts and then shows you how to configure and use the Fixed assets module in Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations.
Lessons

• Introduction
• Configure fixed asset components
• Enable fixed asset integration
• Create fixed assets
• Practice labs
• Module summary

To record fixed asset transactions using journals, you must create at least one journal name using the journal type Post fixed assets in the setup of the General ledger module. If budgets for fixed assets are required, you must also create a journal name that uses the journal type Fixed asset budget. This module explains how to process and manage fixed assets.
Lessons

• Introduction
• Cost control workspace
• Practice lab
• Module summary

Cost accounting lets you collect data from various sources, such as the general ledger, subledgers, budgets, and statistical information. You can then analyze, summarize, and evaluate cost data, so that management can make the best possible decisions for price updates, budgets, cost control, and so on. The source data that is used for cost analysis is treated independently in Cost accounting. Therefore, updates in Cost accounting don’t affect the source data.
Lessons

• Introduction
• Cost control workspace
• Practice lab
• Module summary

In General ledger, you can complete closing procedures for a period or a year. Closing processes prepare the system for a new period. There are many tasks such as preparing filings, inventory closing, consolidation and many more needs to be completed first. To prepare the system for a new year, you must run the year-end close process. Each organization has different processes and steps that it performs for the end of a period.
Lessons

• Introduction
• Bank reconciliations
• Configure financial period close
• Prepare periodic filings
• Run foreign currency revaluation processes
• Perform financial consolidations
• Process end of year close
• Practice Labs
• Module summary

Generic Electronic Reporting (GER) or simply Electronic Reporting (ER) is a configurable tool for regulatory reporting, payments and electronic invoicing. The ER engine is targeted at business users instead of developers. Because you configure formats instead of code, the processes for creating and adjusting formats for electronic documents are faster and easier. ER currently supports the TEXT, XML, PDF, Microsoft Word document, and OPENXML worksheet formats. However, an extension interface provides support for additional formats.
Lessons

• Introduction
• Configure electronic reporting
• Formula designer in electronic reporting
• Practice Lab
• Module summary

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations includes functionality for the countries and regions documented in the Product localization and translation availability guide. This module explains how to configure some examples of regional features in Finance and Operations. Please read the information on the Localization and regulatory features page to stay updated with the regional functionality of Finance and Operations for all countries/regions.
Lessons

• Introduction
• Localization and regulatory features
• Classification of Mexican localization features
• Understand the global tax engine
• Understand the features of fiscal establishments and documents for Brazilian localization
• Bill of Exchange
• Electronic Invoices
• Practice Labs
• Module summary

The Public Sector, also referred to as the state and local sector, is predominantly a services industry managing the welfare of its citizens. The public sector industry includes organizations in the fields of municipalities, education, healthcare, public safety, public works and infrastructure, national defense, taxation, and various social programs.
Lessons

• Introduction
• Setup funds for the public sector
• Setup derived financial hierarchies
• Configure billing codes for free text invoices
• Practice Labs
• Module summary

Final assessment and course summary, as well as a post-course survey for the course.
Lessons

• Final assessment
• Course summary
• Post-course survey