Close subsidiary ledgersPost month-end entries such as depreciation, intercompany, recurring...

Microsoft Dynamics AX Technical ConferenceFebruary 3–5, 2014Bellevue, WA

Consolidate Your Way with Management ReporterHeidi Minzner Jill CarterPrincipal Program Manager Lead Senior Program Manager

IntroductionWe are excited to share Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 with you…• This presentation contains Microsoft confidential information• Dynamics AX 2012 R3 is pre-release software and subject to change• Microsoft provides no license, express or implied, in this presentation• Please review and respect the disclaimer included in all printed

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Month-end close processClose subsidiary ledgers

Post month-end entries such as depreciation, intercompany, recurring journals

Revalue currencies

Run un-adjusted trial balance

Post adjustments and/or allocations

Run adjusted trial balance

Run preliminary consolidated financial statements

Make final adjustments

Run financial statements and review

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Reporter

Include actual, budget, budget control, and budget planning data

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Drill back to original transaction for any company

Use all and/or unlimited dimensions for full analysis and audit

Generate any time, no wait

Bring in data from multiple Microsoft Dynamics ERPs, including Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009

Use multiple instances of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

View in multiple reporting currencies

Benefits of using Management Reporter for reporting consolidation

Consolidate the way you need to see it

Basic

Single companies

Same chart of accounts and fiscal periods

Basic with eliminations

Subtract eliminations from consolidated total

Minority ownership

Subtract non-controlling interest

Consolidate subsidiaries

Include data outside of Microsoft Dynamics

Multiple chart of accounts (COA)

Consolidate companies with different COA

Reporting currencies and consolidation

Pick the reporting currency

Basic

Same chart of accounts

Same fiscal periods

Basic consolidation

Heidi Minzner

• Create a reporting tree with multiple companies

Steps to a basic consolidation

Basic with eliminations

Same chart of accounts

Same fiscal periods

Including intercompany accounts for eliminations

Basic consolidation with eliminations

Heidi Minzner

• Create a reporting tree with multiple companies

• Use a column definition with dimension filters for elimination accounts

• Create a column calculation to subtract eliminations from total

Steps to a basic consolidation with eliminations

Minority ownership

Same chart of accounts

Same fiscal periods

Including intercompany accounts for eliminations

Subtract minority interest as its own line

Minority ownership

Heidi Minzner

• Use Rollup% in reporting tree definition or do it with a calculation in column or row definition

• Show as part of roll up or as a separate line on report• Use If Then Else with @Unit• Add column restrictions

Steps to consolidation with minority ownership

• Subsidiary information outside of Microsoft Dynamics ERP

Consolidate subsidiaries

One or multiple Microsoft Dynamics ERPs

One or multiple versions of Microsoft Dynamics ERPs

Subsidiaries outside of Microsoft Dynamics ERP

Consolidate subsidiaries

Jill Carter

• Create Excel file(s) containing the data from the non-Microsoft Dynamics ERP

• Add a new Row Link in the row definition to use to Link to External Worksheet

• Add cell references to the rows in the row definition• Add a column type of WKS (amounts from external worksheet)

to the column definition• Indicate the Row Definition, External Link, and External File

location for each node in the reporting tree that needs to pull data from Excel

• Select “Use row definition from reporting tree” in the Report Definition

Steps to consolidate subsidiaries

Multiple chart of accounts

One or multiple Microsoft Dynamics ERPs

One or multiple versions of Microsoft Dynamics ERPs

One or multiple chart of accounts

Multiple chart of accountsJill Carter

• Create a second Link to Financial Dimensions in the row definition for each unique chart of accounts• Tip: Give it a friendly name so it’s easy to identify in the reporting tree

definition• Map the accounts to the appropriate lines• Select the row definition in the reporting tree definition • Choose the correct row link for each unit of the reporting tree

Steps to consolidate with multiple chart of accounts

Reporting currencies and consolidation

Exchange rate types and default rate types in Microsoft Dynamics AX

Companies translated to accounting currency of selected company

Any report, any currency in the viewer

Reporting currencies side by side

Reporting currencies and consolidation

Jill Carter

• Simply select the reporting currency in the web viewer!OR• Choose the Currency Display in the column definition to see

multiple currencies side by side

Steps to consolidate with reporting currencies

Other consolidation scenarios

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009

Different fiscal periods

Consolidate by business unit

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