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Microsoft documentation for AX 2012 doesn’t provide clear steps on how to create new bank transaction based on the Marked new transaction in bank statement lines. These following steps can be followed to create the new bank transaction based on the bank statement line(s): During reconciliation process (under bank reconciliation worksheet), mark the statement line(s) that is indicated as a new transaction in the bank document. Or this step can be automated by using matching rules. Once marked as new transaction, open the related bank statement. Go to the line marked as new transaction and click ‘ Distribute amount ’ button. Put the ledger dimension string on Ledger account field. If you need to post into several accounts/dimensions you can utilise Split button. Close the Accounting distribution form and click post on the bank statement. This should help to create the new bank transaction automatically. Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations have the similar...

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...

AX has standard Good received not invoiced report that is available only for United States and Canada. This report can be made available for other countries with little tweaks in the AOS. Go to /Menu Items/Output/VendAccruedPurchases_NA under AOT. Remove the value on the “CountryRegionCodes” properties. Save and compile the object. Go to /Procurement and sourcing/Reports/Status/Accrued purchases/ to open the report.

Rolling out entity (new company) in AX 2012 is more difficult than in 2009. There are some data that can’t be easily copied across. There are many ways of achieving this. But specifically in this article, we’re talking about copying the journal name. And yes, Journal Name can be copied across using the Standard AX Export Import binary file (not Data Import Export Framework). The only issue with copying the Journal Name using the above method is the number sequence for the voucher series still referred to the originating company. Though it’s still working when you create journal with this name, but the next number sequence used isn't from the entity itself. In above example, the voucher series is displayed correctly. We will find the anomaly when we perform right-click and view detail function. The company scope will be difference with the current company we working on. This is basically showing the data saved in the AOT as a result of an export import activity. The scrip...

I found that generating separate asset calendar in every new Fixed Asset implementation is rather important. There is a requirement to have all the years available for your migrated fixed asset  before you can upload the value model. Let's say you have the asset since 1990 in the register and this asset is included as part of the migration. This will require you to have the calendar since 1990 before you can upload the opening balance. Creating the calendar since 1990 can be a bit painful, especially if you have different environment such as Development, Training, Testing, and Production environment. It means that you have to populate the calendar since 1990 to years in the future in all server environment. I've created a script to help populate the calendar easily. You may need to change the calendar name in variable.     static void TI_PopulateFACalendar(Args _args)     {         AVIFiles         FiscalCalendar ...

AX 2012 R3 allows you to have penny difference during reconcile, when the difference is found, it will be posted according to the bank transaction type. Below is the details: The setup is found on the Bank Transaction Type Setup (Cash & Bank management/Setup/Bank transaction types)