| lass="bottom-link"> | | | | retirement leaves original Item ID with its original suffix |
| If your organization deploys Microsoft Dynamics GP | | | | (with proportionally reduced Original Cost, LT |
| as its Corporate ERP application, or as it was known | | | | depreciation and net book value) and it will create the |
| formerly — Great Plains Dynamics and | | | | same ID with new suffix (typically next suffix available, |
| eEnterprise — we would like to give you some | | | | such as if original item has 1 — it will assign the |
| field experience on Fixed Assets. We assume that | | | | 2) |
| you have formal accounting education and pretty | | | | 4. What to do if you closed GP GL year prior to |
| familiar with such terms as depreciation, amortization, | | | | closing FA Year End Routine. Well, this might result in |
| Straight-Line, Declined Balance and other depreciating | | | | Year to Date depreciation to be incorrect if you do |
| methods — all these features should be | | | | query directly from FA maintenance screen. This is |
| available in mid-market ERP application, however we | | | | very annoying, as we heard from multiple Great Plains |
| would like to share some more complex issues, which | | | | customers. Fix is described in the knowledge base, |
| are not apparent or not intuitive to discover: | | | | however it might be difficult to do it without being |
| 1. Importing Fixed Assets from legacy accounting | | | | familiar with GP FA tables structure and not being |
| system. You can use import tool, available directly in | | | | SQL programmer |
| the FA module. However we discovered with real | | | | 5. Fixed Assets module supports multicurrency, so you |
| life case studies, that you may want to use formulas in | | | | can do international assets tracking with currency |
| parallel objects setup in FA for each Fixed Asset | | | | revaluation. When you do retirement or mass |
| record. In this situation, we recommend you to build | | | | retirement, multicurrency also is in the consideration |
| Great Plains Macro — simply records the macro | | | | 6. Known issues with Smart List for Fixed Assets. |
| for couple of FA records, then split it into the fields in | | | | There are reported cases, where Smart List option |
| the tab delimited text file, import it into Excel and use | | | | for FA module disappears and you have to repair the |
| formulas to feed in all you legacy FA items and related | | | | database on SQL level to resurrect it, please, see our |
| numbers. When you are done with this preparation | | | | dedicated publication in media, back in February 2010 |
| — launch Macro and enjoy several minutes | | | | 7. How to request help? Please call us |
| while Dynamics GP FA module converts your legacy | | | | 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918 or email us We |
| data with potentially all your books, locations, structures, | | | | welcome you to request Fixed Assets module web |
| physical locations, custodians | | | | presentation, as well as our products demos: |
| 2. If you need to retire FA items with back date and | | | | Warehouse Management System, SCM with |
| you already depreciated it to the current date. Here | | | | Advanced Barcoding, posting Server with Workflow, |
| you need to do depreciation for each individual item | | | | eCommerce extension for Dynamics GP, Timesheets |
| with back date to undo recent depreciation records | | | | for Microsoft CRM. We serve you locally in Chicago, |
| and then interface FA transaction to General Ledger | | | | Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego. Plus in USA, |
| 3. Partial FA item retirement. You can do it for | | | | Canada, Mexico nationwide via remote support and |
| individual item (not available in Mass retire). Partial | | | | web sessions. |