Financial Accounting with Microsoft D365 ERP

Book excerpt: Part I: ABC of Accounting This part is about fundamentals of finance and accounting. I started studying finance and accounting in school in grade 11 (in 1998) and it took me 5 years to understand it in the right context. I have jotted down the basics of accounting here to a dead simple way: Why your business is different from you? Why are most people confused with debit and credit? How golden rules of accounting are taught in schools and universities? How accounting process works behind the scenes? (With no automation) Best practices for designing chart of accounts IFRS and International Accounting Standards I highly recommend reading this part in detail if you have not read finance & accounting during your university time. This part is building block of this book. Part II: Accounting with D365 ERP I recommend this for all D365 consultants, D365 finance users and the new graduates who want to start their D365 career. It is my promise you will not regret spending time on these 5 chapters. This part deals with specific accounting with D365 ERP (Finance & Operations). You can also use it as a 'cheat sheet' also while configuring the accounting of D365 and there is nothing wrong with that. If you already know little bit of finance, this section will make you more confident with core accounting of D365 ERP. There is a beautiful link between D365 accounting and Golden Rules of accounting (which you read in Part I) How Microsoft D365 handles accounting for procurement, sales, assets, general ledger, forex, inter-company? How the posting works in D365 (which is different from manual accounting system and differs in each ERP) There are some tips and tricks with every chapter which makes this book unique. IFRS and IAS references at the relevant places. Part III: Financial Statements and Ratio Analysis It is a bonus chapter in this book. As you know I am a fan of Warren Buffett and cannot miss financial statements and ratio when we talk about finance and accounting. This part deals with Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow etc. and recommend which section and ratio are most important while you want to do a quick health check of a company. I recommend this for everyone even if you don't want to know about debit-credit or D365. It will make you little more intelligent in reading financials of an organization. Note- This book is first in the series of two books. There will be some advance topics in the next book e.g., revenue recognition, project accounting, lease accounting, landed costing and manufacturing etc.