General Business Posting Group Control
Available in license(s): Finance
In almost all internal postings, where there is no customer or vendor involved, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central uses an empty General Business Posting Group. Consequently, G/L accounts are used in the posting, which are configured for an empty General Business Posting Group in the General Posting Setup. This occurs for posting assembly orders, production orders and transfer orders, but also for posting the various item journals.
Since the same General Business Posting Group is used for all these different postings, in the General Ledger no distinction can be made between these various postings, which is often desired. Especially the "Inventory Adjmt. Account" and the "Direct Cost Applied Account" will become a mixture of all kinds of postings.
With Apportunix Productivity Package Finance you can configure different default General Business Posting Groups for assembly, production, and transfer orders.
Furthermore, you can configure different General Business Posting Groups for the various Item Journal Templates, which, for example, allows one to distinguish postings from a revaluation or an inventory journal.
- Use the Tell Me search feature (Alt+Q, or click on the ‑icon in the top right corner) to search for and open the Item Journal Templates page.
- Select Edit List from the actions on the page and configure the appropriate General Business Posting Groups for the respective Item Journal Templates using the new Default Gen. Bus. Posting Group field.
The General Posting Setup must be configured as well for these General Business Posting Groups. As an example, see below:
- Use the Tell Me search feature (Alt+Q, or click on the ‑icon in the top right corner) to search for and open the General Posting Setup page.
- In the example below a filter has been applied on the General Product Posting Group = RETAIL
- The column Inventory Adjmt. Account has been highlighted.
- Different G/L accounts have been configured for this column for the different General Business Posting Groups, which allows to control the G/L account to be used in these postings.
And, as an example, for the configuration of the Chart of Accounts associated with the configuration above:
- Use the Tell Me search feature (Alt+Q, or click on the ‑icon in the top right corner) to search for and open the Chart of Accounts page.
- Scroll to the Accounts 7170..7179
