Setting up and maintaining General ledger
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Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
This section provides information about setting up General ledger.
Configuring required General ledger information
Setting up the chart of accounts
Setting up and maintaining journals
Setting up sales tax groups and item sales tax groups
Setting up sales tax authorities
Setting up traditional financial statements
Setting up financial reason codes
Maintaining transactions in General ledger
Setting up fiscal calendars, fiscal years, and periods
Setting up letter of guarantee information
(SAU) Setting up Zakat reporting
Setting up financial data export
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.
Note
Some forms in the following table require information or parameter settings to navigate to them.
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Setting up currency information |
Configure exchange rate providers |
Set up the information that is required by the providers who offer exchange rates to convert foreign currency into local currency. |
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Setting up the chart of accounts |
Additional consolidation accounts |
Create and maintain consolidation accounts for a specified consolidation account group and main account. |
Advanced rule |
Define rules for main accounts and financial dimensions. |
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Advanced rule structures |
Create advanced rule structures that you can link to account rules. |
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Chart of accounts |
View or create charts of accounts. |
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Configure account structures |
Define the valid combinations that, together with the main accounts, form a chart of accounts. |
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Consolidation account groups |
Create consolidation account groups to group consolidation accounts, which can then be used to represent another chart of accounts. |
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Link main account |
Link main accounts to an account category. |
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Main account categories |
Set up main account categories to classify general ledger accounts. |
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Main accounts - chart of accounts: %1 |
Create and manage main accounts. |
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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 posting |
Accrual schemes |
Create an accrual scheme. |
Posting definitions |
Create a posting definition to specify which ledger lines are created when a match exists between an originating entry and the criteria in the posting definition. |
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Transaction posting definitions |
Assign a posting definition to a transaction type. |
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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 organization 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. |
Customers |
Create and manage the customer accounts that the organization does business with. |
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Data export definition groups |
Create definition groups for tables and fields from which data is 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 General ledger. |
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INTERVAT setup |
Create elements for each language and for the program that you use to browse websites. |
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Italian sales tax books |
Create and manage sales tax books for Italy. |
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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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Legal entities |
Create and manage general legal entity information. |
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Released products |
Create and manage the basic information for goods, bills of materials, and services. |
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Sales tax codes |
Create sales tax codes for the sales taxes and duties that your organization 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 organization uses when reporting sales tax. |
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Spanish VAT books |
Create and manage the sales tax settlement periods that the organization uses when reporting sales tax in Spain. |
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Tax exempt numbers |
Create and manage the organization tax-exempt numbers by country/region. |
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Vendors |
Create and manage the vendor accounts that the organization 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 main accounts in a structured list. |
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Customers |
Create and manage the customer accounts that the organization does business with. |
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General ledger parameters |
Set up parameters for General ledger. |
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Item sales tax group |
Set up and manage item sales tax groups. |
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Released products |
Create and manage the basic information for goods, bills of materials, and services. |
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Sales tax codes |
Create sales tax codes for the sales taxes and duties that your organization 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 organization 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 organization 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 organization 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 organization must collect sales tax. |
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Setting up withholding tax |
Vendors |
Create and manage the vendor accounts that the organization 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 financial dimensions |
Dimension details |
Create and manage financial dimension values, which you can use to:
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Ledger balance |
View the balance of the selected ledger account in the accounting currency. |
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Structure designer |
Create and manage row structure lines for financial statements when the form is opened from the Row definition form, and create and manage dimension set hierarchies when it is opened from the Dimension sets form. |
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Setting up financial statements |
Financial statement |
Print the financial statements that you defined in the Financial statement 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 Row definition form, and create and manage dimension set hierarchies when it is opened from the Dimension sets 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 have already 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 is exported and sent to a tax auditor. |
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Setting up reason codes |
Ledger reasons |
Create and maintain reason codes for General ledger transactions. |