The topics in this section provide information about setting up and maintaining General ledger.
Setting up the chart of accounts
Setting up and maintaining journals
Setting up and maintaining budgets
Setting up sales tax groups and item sales tax groups
Setting up sales tax authorities
Setting up financial statements
General ledger setup and maintenance forms
The following table lists the forms that support setting up and maintaining General ledger. The table entries are organized by task and then alphabetically by form name.
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Setting up the chart of accounts |
Chart of accounts |
Create, manage, and view the company's general ledger accounts in a structured list. |
Ledger account categories |
Set up ledger account categories to classify general ledger accounts. |
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Link ledger account |
Link ledger accounts to an account category. |
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Setting up and maintaining journals |
Journal |
Post journals and print journal lines. |
Journal names |
Journal names setup- Set up financial journal approvals, manual journal approvals, and workflow journal approvals. |
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Journal voucher |
General journal lines- Create, validate, and print journal lines. |
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Ledger accruals |
Create ledger accrual transactions. |
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Ledger journals clean up |
Delete journals- Delete posted ledger journals. |
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Post journals |
Post multiple journals. |
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Posting restrictions |
Set up posting restrictions to determine whether specific users or user groups can post only journals that they create. |
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Workflow configurations |
Set up workflow configurations for General ledger. |
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Setting up and maintaining budgets |
Budget model |
Create and use a budget for general ledger. |
Budget revisions |
Set up a budget revision identifier. |
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Ledger budget |
Create budgets for transaction accounts and total accounts. |
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Setting up posting |
Accrual schemes |
Create an accrual scheme. |
Setting up sales tax codes |
Item sales tax groups |
Set up and manage item sales tax groups. |
Sales tax codes |
Create sales tax codes for the sales taxes and duties that your company is obligated to calculate, collect, and pay to sales tax authorities. |
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Sales tax groups |
Create and manage the sales tax groups that determine the sales tax and duty calculation for customers, vendors, or ledger accounts. |
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Setting up sales tax |
Account group - Ledger posting group |
Set up the ledger posting groups for sales taxes. |
Company information |
Create and manage general company information. |
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Customers |
Create and manage the customer accounts that the company does business with. |
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Data export definition groups |
Create definition groups for tables and fields from which data will be exported and sent to a tax auditor. |
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Data export fields |
Create data export fields and assign Microsoft Dynamics AX fields to them. |
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Data export tables |
Define the data export table and file names for a definition group. |
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EDIVAT setup |
Create the segments and elements to use in electronic sales tax declarations. |
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Electronic tax declaration parameters |
Set up the parameters that define an electronic tax declaration in the Netherlands. |
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Electronic tax declaration setup |
Set up information about authentication and the use of a proxy server for the electronic tax declaration. |
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Electronic tax error messages |
Set up the possible tax error messages that can be returned from the Dutch tax authority for the Dutch ICL tax declaration and the Dutch OB tax declaration. |
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General ledger parameters |
Set up parameters for the General ledger module. |
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INTERVAT setup |
Create elements for each language and for the program that you use to browse Web sites. |
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Italian sales tax books |
Create and manage sales tax books for Italy. |
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Item |
Create and manage the basic information for goods, bills of materials, and services. |
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Item group |
Create and manage the basic information for goods, bills of materials, and services for groups. |
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Item sales tax groups |
Set up and manage item sales tax groups. |
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Journal names |
Journal names- Set up and maintain project journal names. |
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Sales tax codes |
Create sales tax codes for the sales taxes and duties that your company is obligated to calculate, collect, and pay to sales tax authorities. |
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Sales tax groups |
Create and manage the sales tax groups that determine the sales tax and duty calculation for customers, vendors, or ledger accounts. |
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Sales tax settlement periods |
Create and manage the sales tax settlement periods that the company uses when reporting sales tax. |
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Spanish VAT books |
Create and manage the sales tax settlement periods that the company uses when reporting sales tax in Spain. |
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Tax exempt numbers |
Create and manage the company tax exempt numbers by country/region. |
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Vendors |
Create and manage the vendor accounts that the company does business with. |
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Setting up sales tax groups and item sales tax groups |
Account group - Ledger posting group |
Set up the ledger posting groups for sales taxes. |
Chart of accounts |
Create, manage, and view the company's general ledger accounts in a structured list. |
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Customers |
Create and manage the customer accounts that the company does business with. |
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General ledger parameters |
Set up parameters for the General ledger module. |
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Item |
Create and manage the basic information for goods, bills of materials, and services. |
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Item sales tax group |
Set up and manage item sales tax groups. |
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Sales tax codes |
Create sales tax codes for the sales taxes and duties that your company is obligated to calculate, collect, and pay to sales tax authorities. |
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Sales tax groups |
Create and manage the sales tax groups that determine the sales tax and duty calculation for customers, vendors, or ledger accounts. |
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Vendors |
Create and manage the vendor accounts that the company does business with. |
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Setting up sales tax authorities |
Sales tax authority |
Set up the governmental units to which sales tax is reported and paid. |
Sales tax payments |
View settled sales taxes for a defined period. |
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Vendors |
Create and manage the vendor accounts that the company does business with. |
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Setting up U.S. sales tax |
Configuration |
Select which features to use in Microsoft Dynamics AX by selecting configuration keys. |
Sales tax codes |
Create sales tax codes for the sales taxes and duties that your company is obligated to calculate, collect, and pay to sales tax authorities. |
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Sales tax groups |
Create and manage the sales tax groups that determine the sales tax and duty calculation for customers, vendors, or ledger accounts. |
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Sales tax jurisdictions |
Create the sales tax jurisdictions for which the company must collect sales tax. |
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Setting up withholding tax |
Vendors |
Create and manage the vendor accounts that the company does business with. |
Withholding tax codes |
Create and manage withholding tax codes. |
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Withholding tax groups |
Create and manage withholding tax groups. |
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Setting up dimensions |
Balance |
View the balance of the selected ledger account in the company currency. |
Dimension focuses |
Create and manage dimension focuses that contain a dimension type or dimension type combination to use in financial statements. |
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Dimension set rules |
Create and manage dimension set rules. |
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Dimension sets |
Create and manage dimension sets. |
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Dimensions |
Create and manage dimension values, which you can use to:
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Structure designer |
Create and manage row structure lines for financial statements when the form is opened from the form, and create and manage dimension set hierarchies when it is opened from the form. |
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Setting up financial statements |
Financial statement |
Print the financial statements that you defined in the form. |
Row definition |
Create and manage row definitions for financial statements. |
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Structure designer |
Create and manage row structure lines for financial statements when the form is opened from the form, and create and manage dimension set hierarchies when it is opened from the form. |
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XBRL taxonomy |
Import eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) taxonomies from external files, or add schema or linkbase files to taxonomies that already have been imported. |
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Setting up financial data export |
Data export definition groups |
Create definition groups for tables and fields from which data will be exported and sent to a tax auditor. |
Setting up reason codes |
Asset reasons |
Reasons- Create and maintain reason codes for Fixed assets transactions. |
Bank reasons |
Reasons- Create and maintain reason codes for Bank transactions. |
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Customer reasons |
Reasons- Create and maintain reason codes for Accounts receivable transactions. |
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Ledger reasons |
Reasons- Create and maintain reason codes for general ledger transactions. |
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Reasons |
Create and maintain financial reason codes. |
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Vendor reasons |
Reasons- Create and maintain reason codes for Accounts payable transactions. |