AX Notes

There are couple ways of reversing the PO Invoice in AX 2009 and prior versions. However, there is a procedure that can’t be done in AX 2012. Reversing PO Invoice in AX 2009 can be done by directly entering minus quantity in “Receive now” field at the PO line that wanted to be reversed. Then proceed by posting a delivery note and invoice subsequently. This will reverse the delivery note/invoice on that positive PO line. This procedure, though has a tidy result, is no longer allowed in AX2012. User has to create separate negative PO line to do the reversal of the PO Invoice. User will get following message because both receive now and ordered quantity must have the same sign (either positive or negative). The procedure is well explained by Microsoft in following link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh454990.aspx

Reporting Tree Unit in Management Reporter is one of good features to have the breakdown of summary report. One of the case I came across using the reporting tree is to report Balance Sheet per legal entity. Below is the sample that use legal entity in the reporting tree unit Above scenarios list down to different entities that have different accounting/functional currency. And in some cases customer wanted to see the balance sheet in each accounting/functional currency. To achieve this we have to enable the “Currency Display” function in the Column Definition. Above configuration will force the Management Reporter to display the balance sheet in each entity’s functional/accounting currency. Without this configuration, the report will be displayed in one currency. The “Include all reporting currencies” does not give you the same output as above configuration does. That will give you the ability to switch between USD to CNY or to any mentioned currency (GBP, INCR, etc) and...