This document provides an agenda and instructions for Microsoft Dynamics GP year-end close processes. It discusses closing procedures for inventory, receivables, payables, fixed assets, and the general ledger. It also addresses generating 1099 forms, W-2 forms, and validating year-end reports. The document provides checklists of steps for each close process and describes the impacts to account balances and fields.
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2015-01-06 Microsoft Dynamics GP Year End Closing Procedures
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AGENDA
1099 & Review FAQ
Inventory Year-end Close
Receivable Year-end Close
Payables Year-end Close
Fixed Asset Year-end Close
General Ledger Year-end Close
FAQ For YE Close
1099 & Review FAQ
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STEPS FOR 1099
1. Post all payable transactions for the year
2. Perform month-end period close
3. Perform back up (pre-1099 edits)
4. Verify 1099 information
Tools/routine/purchasing/print 1099 (File/print)
Edit 1099 amount
cards/purchasing/details/period
5. Print 1099 statements
Tools/routines/purchasing/ Print 1099
5. Page 5
1099 NEW FEATURES IN GP10
Greater control over 1099 box
Vendor maintenance screen
Payables Transaction Entry screen
Vendor Summary
Print 1099 screen
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YE CLOSE
Inventory
Receivables Management
Payables Management
Fixed Assets Management
General Ledger
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WHAT HAPPENS IN INVENTORY CLOSE
Zeros the quantity sold field in item quantity
maintenance window for each site
Updates the amount in the items beginning
quantity field to the quantity on hand field at
each site
Transfer all summarized current year quantity
(cost and sales amounts) to transaction
history for the items
Updates the standard cost of each items to
the current cost if you use either the FIFO
periodic or the LIFO periodic valuation method
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INVENTORY YEAR-END CLOSE
CHECKLIST
Post all transactions for the year
Reconcile inventory quantities
Complete physical inventory count and post
any adjustments
Make a backup
Perform year end close
(tools/routine/inventory/year end)
Make final backup
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WHAT HAPPENS IN RECEIVABLE CLOSE?
Calendar Year Close
Clears Finance Charge For YTD
Updates Finance Charge LYR
Fiscal Year Close
Clears The YTD Balances For Each Customer
Updates LYR Balances For Each Customer
(Cards/Sales/Summary)
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RECEIVABLES YEAR-END CLOSE
CHECKLIST
1. Post all sales and receivables
transactions for the year
2. Perform month-end period close
3. Perform back-up (Pre year-end close)
4. Close the fiscal and calendar year
Make sure your user date is 12/31/xx
Tools/routines/sales/ year-end close
5. Perform another back-up (post year-end
close)
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WHAT HAPPENS IN PAYABLES CLOSE?
Calendar Year Close
Clears amount for YTD
For amount since last close view, updates
LYR
For calendar view, updates amount for LYR
Fiscal year close
Clears the YTD balances for each vendor
Updates LYR balances for each vendor for
fiscal year view
(Cards/purchasing/summary)
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PAYABLES YEAR-END CLOSE CHECKLIST
1. Print the aged TB w/ options report
2. Perform back-up (Pre year-end close)
3. Close the fiscal and calendar year
Make sure your user date is 12/31/xx
Tools/routines/purchasing/ year-end close
4. Perform another back-up (post year-end
close)
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WHAT HAPPENS IN FA CLOSE?
Current fiscal year in each closed book
increased by one year
System zeros the following fields
YTD depreciation
YTD maintenance
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FIXED ASSET YE CLOSE CHECKLIST
1. Enter all FA transactions
2. Depreciate all assets through the last day
of the year
3. Build FA calendar if necessary
4. Create backup
5. Run FA YE close routine
(tools/routine/FA/YE)
6. Create final backup
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WHAT HAPPENS DURING GL YEAR-END
CLOSE?
Transfers all current year information for each
account to account history
Reconciles and summarizes the GL balances that
accumulates throughout the year
Removes all accounts that are marked as inactive if
the accounts matches criteria for deleting
Removes all P&L account balances to RE
Summarizes balance sheet accounts and brings the
balance forward as the beginning balance of the
account in the new year
Prints the year-end closing report
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PREPARING FOR GL CLOSE
1. Verify disk space availability (must have
free disk space = to GL20000
2. Close all sub-ledger
Inventory
Receivables Management
Payables Management
Fixed Assets Management
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GENERAL LEDGER YEAR-END CLOSE
CHECKLIST
1. Post all outstanding entries in GL
2. Print an account list to verify the posting type
of each account (reports/financial/accounts/ all
accounts (include inactive accounts)
3. Perform month-end period close
4. Verify setting in the GL setup window
5. Perform pre-close backup
6. Print detailed TB report and Financial
Statement (to file) Setup new fiscal year
7. Close the fiscal and calendar year
Make sure your user date is 12/31/xx
Tools/routines/financial/ year-end close
8. Perform another back-up (post year-end close)
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FAQ YEAR-END CLOSE
Refer To Your Year-end Close FAQ Document
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PAYROLL W2
1. Create YE file (tools/routine/payroll/YE
close)
Information is from employee summary records
Generate the file as of 12.31.xx date.
MS recommends generating the YE file prior to
payroll run in new calendar year
Pay runs can be processed in new year before
W2 statements are printed
2. Review YE wage report and verify W-2
(tools/routine/payroll/YE wage report)
3. Print W2 & W3 forms using the print W2
window (tools/routine/payroll/print W2)
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PRINT W2 FORM
Print and review the validation report
Print the W2 forms
Print for both active and inactive employees
W2 forms are printed for each employee that has
worked during the year
You can print W2 for any year that a YE wage
file exists
Print the W3 form
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VALIDATION REPORT
Validates the following information:
Social security numbers
Social security wage limits
Social security tax amounts
Medicare tax amount
Blank wage fields
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ADDITIONAL INFO ON W2
You can process payroll in new year w/o
printing W2
You can reprint W2 as many time and for
any year as long as the YE file exists
YE file can be deleted and recreated as
needed.
You should verify the information on the ye
wage report before processing payroll in the
new year.
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ADDITIONAL W2 INFORMATION
If youve already process payroll in new
year and you need to make edits to W2,
you can edit the specific W2 record and not
affect the master record.
If you edit ss wages to be higher than the
tax table limit, the edited w2 information
window will display the edited amount but
w2 will only print up to the limit.