Standard abbreviations

Common accounting terms can be abbreviated. To ensure consistency, the following standard abbreviations have been established for Microsoft Dynamics GP. Use the technical abbreviations for resource names; use the display abbreviations for names that will be displayed on the computer screen (in a message or in a window) or in reports.

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Term

Technical abbreviation

Display abbreviation

Account

ACCT

Acct

Balance

BAL

Bal

Budget

BUD

 

Change

CHG

Chng

Constant

CONS

Cons

Detail

DTL

Dtl

Error

ERR

 

Finance charge

FC

FC or Fin Chg

Fixed allocation account

FXD (General Ledger only)

Fxd (General Ledger only)

History

HIST

Hist

Invoice

INVC

Invc

Journal

JRNL

Jrnl

Last year

LYR

LYR

Maintenance

MNT

Maint

Month to date

MTD

MTD

Negative

NEG

 

Order

ORD

 

Period

PER

Period

Posting

POST

Post

Posting account

PST (GL only)

 

Quarter to date

QTD

QTD

Reversing

REV

Rev

Sequence

SEQ

 

Serial

SERL

Serial

Summary

SUM

 

Transaction

TRX

Trx

Unit of measure

U_Of_M

U Of M

Variable allocation

VAR (GL only)

Var (GL only)

Year to date

YTD

YTD



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