Lesson 1: Introduction
- General Ledger Features and Benefits
- General Ledger Overview and Roadmap
- Integration
Lesson 2: Setup Procedures
- General Ledger Setup Checklist
- Company and Posting Setup Procedures
- General Ledger Setup
- Account Categories
- Posting Accounts Setup
- Unit Accounts Setup
- Fixed Allocation Account Setup
- Variable Allocation Account Setup
- Mass Modify Chart of Accounts
- Account Segment Setup
- Retained Earnings Account Setup
- Setting up Budgets
- Excel-based Budgeting
- Budget Maintenance
- Quick Journal Setup
- Transaction Matching Setup
- General Ledger Setup Reports
- Entering Beginning Balances
Lesson 3: Daily Procedures
- Transaction Entry Overview
- Standard and Reversing Transactions
- Batch Entry
- Calculate Taxes in General Ledger
- Post Transaction
- Clearing Transactions
- Quick Journal Entries
- Linking Transactions
- Batch Recovery
Lesson 4: Intercompany
- Intercompany Processing overview
- Defining Intercompany relationships
- Entering General Ledger Intercompany Transactions
- Posting Intercompany Transactions in the Destination Company
- Viewing the Intercompany Transactions in Inquiry
Lesson 5: Organizational Structures
- Organization Structures Overview
- Defining Components of the Organization
- Define Organizational Relationships
- Assign User Classes to the Organizational Structure
- Assign Users to the Organizational Structure
- Assign a Range of Accounts to the Organizational Structure
- Assign an Individual Account to the Organizational Structure
- Activate Account Security
Lesson 6: Maintaining Records
- Correcting a Posted Transaction
- Change and Delete Account Records
- Remove History
- Archive Matched Transactions
- Reconcile
- Retrieve Information
- Creating Report Options
- Creating and Printing Report Groups
Lesson 7: Period-End Procedures
- Period-end Checklist
- Printing Financial Statements and Reports
- Consolidating a Period
- Closing the Fiscal Period
- Year-end Closing Checklist
- Year-end Closing
Lesson 8: Multidimensional Analysis
- Setting up Analysis Groups and Codes
- Assigning Analysis Groups to Accounts
- Entering Transactions using Multidimensional Analysis
- Performing Multidimensional Analysis inquiries
- Analysis Reports
Lesson 9: Financial Statement Formatting
- Types of Quick Financial Statements
- Defining the layout
- Printing Options for Quick Financial statements
- Advanced Financial Analysis Overview
- Using the Accelerator File
- AFA Printing Features
Lesson 10: Conclusion
- Posting accounts must be assigned to Account Categories
- Unit Accounts track non-financial information
- Fixed and Variable allocation accounts may be used to allocate expenses to a department or division based on percentages or breakdown account balances
- Reversing and clearing transaction help speed data entry by automating these processes
- Budgets may be created using the Budget Wizard in Great Plains and exported or imported to Microsoft Excel
- Quick Journals provide a template for entering journal entries
- Recurring batches may be used for transactions that occur frequently, such as monthly
- Inquiries provide users with an excellent tool for tracing transactions back to the source document
- Quick Financial statements are easy to customize and are based on account categories
- Intercompany Processing allows you to record intercompany transactions quickly and easily
- The year end process automates the clearing of profit and loss accounts to retained earning and brings the balance sheet accounts forward
- Several tools, such as: Transaction Matching, Account Rollup Inquiry and Organizational Structures are provided to help customize Great Plains to meet your business needs
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