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What's New? Microsoft Dynamics News that Matters.

Are You Ready for 2010?: Be Ready with Dynamics.

Re-Opt-In: Can we keep contacting you?

Tips and Tricks: Inventory Closing with Dynamics AX.

Product Spotlight: Role Centers in Dynamics.

Microsoft Promotions: Save with year-end incentives.

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Now May Be The Time to Move from MAS 90/200 to Dynamics GP. It‘s the perfect time to replace your inefficient, out-dated 'legacy' system with Dynamics.
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It’s that time again.

With year-end rapidly approaching, you can’t help but feel good about closing out another year. 2009 may not have gone the way you planned for it around this time last year, but you’ve made it this far nonetheless. As you continue to see positive signs of an emerging economy, you can’t help but wonder how you are going to position your company for success in 2010 and beyond.

Your accounting system is old, out-of-date, and out of answers for your fast moving business. It lacks integration with your other systems, causing redundant manual processes and data entry. This, in turn, increases the chances of employee mistakes and decreases process efficiencies. And with little operational insight into your organization, your employees do not have easy access to the information they need to make good business decisions.

Your current system is dragging down productivity and raising costs. You have a New Year’s Resolution to change that in 2010. But how can you be assured that now is the right time to switch to a modern system? You made the same resolution for 2009, and yet, here you are making the same decision again. Are we really ready for a change?

Be ready for 2010 with Microsoft Dynamics.

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Happy Holidays!

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Tips and Tricks:
Inventory Close with Dynamics AX 2009

As the year draws to a close, it's time to do inventory closing with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. From an accounting perspective, this means settling transactions between issues and receipts, as items can be issued at one value and received at another value.

While inventory close is no longer required when using the standard cost method, it is required for other costing methods. With standard close, differences between the item's standard cost (used for issues) and receipt transactions will post to variance accounts, as determined, resulting in inventory always valued at the standard cost.

So the following points apply to all costing methods except standard costing:

8 Inventory Closing Tips | Request Year-End Help

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Product Spotlight: Role Centers in Dynamics

Role Centers are default home pages that provide an overview of information that pertains to your work, such as your work list, activities, frequently used links, and key business intelligence information.

You can help your people work smarter and faster with RoleTailored access to information, tasks, and business processes. Role Centers in Microsoft Dynamics AX present job specific information based on roles within the organization to help people easily prioritize tasks and make quick business decisions.

For more information about Role Centers, such as how to modify the pages to fit your needs, see the Role Centers information in the Applications and Business Processes Help within Dynamics AX, or the Enterprise Portal Help.

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