Microsoft Dynamics NAV - Financial Planning, Budgeting and Reporting

Microsoft Dynamics for financial planning, budgeting, and reporting

Monitor, measure, and manage organizational performance

Microsoft Dynamics offers financial planning, budgeting, and reporting applications that work with your enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to help you measure business results, align performance to goals, and improve profitability. Which solution is right for you? For simplified, template-driven planning and budgeting, choose Forecaster for Microsoft Dynamics ERP. FRx for Microsoft Dynamics ERP gives you powerful analysis and reporting capabilities. With Enterprise Reporting for Microsoft Dynamics ERP, you get a full-featured performance management solution to manage complex consolidations and multiple currencies. No matter what your business needs, you can count on a Microsoft Dynamics solution.

Basic planning and budgeting

Contain costs and prevent fiscal surprises by budgeting and planning for the future efficiently and accurately. Forecaster for Microsoft Dynamics ERP helps your organization set realistic financial expectations based on a sound business plan linked to current strategic business objectives.

Managers can quickly build budgets based on their departmental objectives and knowledge of marketing conditions for improved forecasting with built-in flexibility to respond to changing business conditions.

Analysis and reporting

Monitor performance, spot trends, and respond to new opportunities with financial analysis and reporting software that integrates tightly with your general ledger and provides accurate insight into financial processes—with little or no burden on your IT department.

With easy-to-use FRx for Microsoft Dynamics ERP, you can generate and share real-time reports across the organization to help you meet financial reporting deadlines easily, close the books quickly, and simplify report sharing.

Complex financial scenarios

Multisite and international organizations require sophisticated financial reporting, budgeting, and planning capabilities, including advanced multidimensional consolidations, eliminations, and multiple currencies.

Enterprise Reporting for Microsoft Dynamics ERP integrates tightly with your financial system to help meet your most complex financial needs and provide consolidated financial reporting and budgeting across the enterprise.

Enterprise Reporting for Microsoft Dynamics ERP helps streamline complex financial analysis and reporting requirements across the enterprise

Complex organizational structures demand flexible enterprise planning, budgeting, and reporting that works smoothly with your financial systems, fits your specific business, and is easy to use and share. Enterprise Reporting provides powerful, reliable data collection and easy-to-use analysis and reporting functionality, as well as built-in consolidation, elimination, and multicurrency capabilities. A variety of presentation and display methods help employees and managers monitor business performance, gain insight into finances, and make confident, informed decisions. Enterprise Reporting offers these additional capabilities:

- Smooth integration with any general ledger or financial system for reliable, consistent financial data.

- Flexible reporting, including statutory as well as management reporting of multitiered information.

- The ability to balance performance with accuracy and centralized control with local autonomy.

- Graphical representations of key performance indicators (KPIs) to help decision makers visualize trends, patterns, and relationships that affect profitability and enhance strategic planning.

- Data interpretation using a rich set of analysis tools, including Microsoft Office Excel and Enterprise Reporting Cube Designer for a generation of online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes.

- Web browser access to data so people across the organization can view, modify, and analyze business data anytime and remotely process or schedule report packages for distribution in a variety of formats.

- Support for financial industry standards.

Enterprise Resource Plannig Software

Explore Microsoft Dynamics ERP

Help your people measure financial effectiveness, gain insight into business performance, and work better together

Successful companies need the right software to help them manage their financial accounting, supply chain, project accounting, field service, and human resources processes. Products that contain integrated business applications to automate and manage these processes are referred to as enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.

Products that contain integrated business applications to automate and manage these processes are referred to as enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions.

A good ERP solution should help you:

Maintain control of your finances and manage them with a high level of efficiency.

Make complete, current financial information and reports available to anybody who needs that information to perform business planning.

Simplify and automate routine and repetitious functions so that your employees can focus on more critical tasks.

Create the required financial and other reporting that is needed to realize regulatory compliance.

Connect your entire supply chain in a productive, fast-moving flow to help streamline manufacturing and reduce inventory carrying costs.

Increase efficiencies in distribution to improve customer satisfaction and reduce the cost of doing business.

Fulfill the potential and increase the loyalty of your workforce while minimizing the cost and complexity of administering salaries, benefits, recruiting, and performance management.

Accomplish project goals and achieve outstanding results within budget, on time, and with excellent resource efficiency.

Look deeper into key performance factors—and pinpoint your most profitable customers, most efficient vendors, and potential issues within your organization that require swift action.

Meet the unique needs of your industry with specialized functionality tailored to your vertical industry business processes.

Why choose Microsoft Dynamics ERP?

Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions can help you respond more rapidly to the changing business climate so that your people can make timely and informed decisions with increased confidence. Our partners build on the standard functionality in Microsoft Dynamics to deliver powerful industry solutions that meet industry-specific needs. Delivered through a network of channel partners providing specialized vertical services, these adaptable business solutions work like and with familiar Microsoft software to streamline processes across an entire business.

Your business can look forward to these capabilities with Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions:

Business intelligence

Microsoft Dynamics offers effective business intelligence and reporting solutions that you can put to work immediately. They can let you look deeper into key performance factors to help pinpoint your most profitable customers, most efficient vendors, and potential issues within your organization that require swift action.

Collaboration

Collaboration capabilities available in Microsoft Dynamics solutions can make your company's offerings and key business functionality readily available to customers, employees, and business partners. Because both the portal and collaborative technology are activated in a smooth setup, you can offer site users a wealth of information and efficient, collaborative processes very quickly after implementing Microsoft Dynamics.

Executive management

The executive management capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions help you access all the information you need, including tasks, reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs), through a single intuitive dashboard. These executive dashboards provide a quick and effective way to gain business insight, helping you to monitor growth, compliance, and even environmental impact.

Financial planning and budgeting

Microsoft Dynamics offers financial planning, budgeting, and reporting applications that work with your enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to help you measure business results, align performance to goals, and improve profitability.

Human resource management

Microsoft Dynamics human resource management software solutions can help you fulfill the potential and increase the loyalty of your workforce while minimizing the cost and complexity of administering salaries, benefits, recruiting, and performance management. Microsoft Dynamics solutions will help you empower your employees, boost administrative productivity, and design the best workforce for your business.

IT management

Microsoft Dynamics is designed with easy IT management, configuration, and development in mind, so the technology supports your business and empowers your people to perform even better. And as your business grows, you can adapt Microsoft Dynamics to meet your business and technology needs.

Project management

With a wide spectrum of tools and technologies, Microsoft solutions for project management give your people the tools they need to accomplish project goals and achieve outstanding results. Microsoft Dynamics project management solutions help you control costs and improve profitability, streamline project management, and achieve optimal productivity from your resources.

Supply chain management

Microsoft Dynamics offers extensible, familiar software for supply chain management (SCM) that can help reduce barriers to productivity and efficiency and help your organization deliver what customers need, when they need it. Microsoft Dynamics solutions provide your people with tools to enhance individual and team productivity, streamline operations, and collaborate effectively.

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