MS Dynamics 365 – FFC
Duration
9 Weeks
Entry Requirements
Minimum High School Diploma
Tuition
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Course Delivery
On-Campus
Online
Program Overview
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate – Skills Measured
This certification will prepare students to write for MS 365 Core Finance and Operation Associate.
Accreditation
Microsoft Certificate
Study Outline
Week 1: Describe finance and operations apps, and extend apps by using Microsoft Power Platform technologies
Identify and use common apps, features, and functionality
- Describe apps in the finance and operations portfolio
- Describe the main components of Dynamics 365 Commerce
- Describe uses cases for and capabilities of workspaces and mobile workspaces
- Describe case management
- Describe global address book features and their use cases
- Identify inquiry and report types available in a default installation
- Describe use cases for the Business document management and electronic reporting features
- Perform searches, save queries and views, create and use, record templates, and create filters
Extend app functionality by using Microsoft Power Platform technologies
- Identify use cases for Microsoft Dataverse
- Identify use cases for Power Apps
- Identify use cases for Power Automate
- Identify use cases for Power BI
- Identify use cases for Power Virtual Agents
Week 2: Configure administrative features and workflows
Implement security
- Distinguish between roles, duties, privileges, and permissions
- Assign security roles to users based on requirements
- Describe segregation of duties
- Describe and use the security diagnostics tool
Design and create workflows and business events
- Describe use cases for workflows
- Design and create workflows
- Configure workflow properties, tasks, approvals, and elements
- Configure queues, workflow assignment hierarchies, workflow parameters, and troubleshoot workflows
- Manage workflow versions
- Trigger Power Automate flows by using business events
Configure organization administration features
- Set up and configure legal entities and operating units
- Configure and troubleshoot number sequences
- Create organization hierarchies
- Describe and apply user options
- Configure document handling for attachments
- Configure print management and form setup features
Configure system administration features
- Describe use cases for the Microsoft Excel Workbook Designer and the Microsoft Dynamics Office add-in
- Configure email (SMTP/Exchange)
- Create and maintain email templates
- Describe use cases for Entity store
- Create, export, and import personalization
- Publish saved views
- Set up and monitor batch jobs
- Set up alerts
Week 3: Manage finance and operations data (25-30%)
Manage data
- Describe use cases for the Data Management framework
- Describe use cases for projects, data entities, and templates
- Copy configuration data between companies or legal entities by using the data management framework
- Describe use cases for the dual-write feature
Describe the migration process
- Identify common migration scenarios and tools in finance and operations apps
- Identify relevant data entities and elements based on given scenarios
- Identify data migration requirements
Prepare data for migration and migrate data to finance and operations apps
- Identify types of data including the master, transactional, reference, and parametric
- Generate field mapping between source and target data structures
- Import or export data by using the data management framework
- Support the transition between the existing and migrated systems
- Perform a test migration and validate the output from the process
- Implement data task automation
Week 4: Validate and support solutions (20-25%)
Test solutions
- Describe types of testing, including unit, regression, functional, and end-to-end
- Describe capabilities of available testing tools
- Track work items through a project implementation by using Azure DevOps
- create test cases and test plans by using Azure DevOps
- Automate and manage test cases by using the Regression Suite Automation Tool(RSAT)
- Create test scripts by using Task recorder and upload scripts to the Business process modeler or Azure DevOps
Describe and use Lifecycle Services tools
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Identify use cases for project asset libraries and shared asset libraries
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Describe environment purposes and topologies
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Differentiate between Tier 1 environment and other tiers
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Describe use cases for Business process modeler libraries
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Describe the types of environments including sandbox, test, and production
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Report production outages
Week 5: Set up and configure financial management (40-45%)
Define and configure the chart of accounts
- Define and configure the chart of accounts and main accounts
- Describe use cases for main accounts categories, ledger account aliases, and balance control accounts
- Configure financial dimensions and dimension sets
- Configure legal entity overrides for financial dimensions and main accounts
- Create and configure account structures and advanced rules
Configure ledgers and currencies
- Construct fiscal calendars, years, and periods
- Configure the ledger
- Describe and configure batch transfer rules
- Set up currencies and conversions for a legal entity
- Manually enter currency exchange rates
Implement and manage journals
- Describe options for implementing voucher numbers in journals
- Configure journal names
- Set up journal controls and posting restriction rules
- Describe and configure journal approvals
- Create voucher templates
- Describe use cases for periodic journals
- Configure and apply accrual schemes
- Set up intercompany accounting
- Create templates to edit journals in Microsoft Excel
- Perform reverse entries
Implement and manage cash and bank
- Create and maintain bank groups and bank accounts
- Describe and configure electronic payment formats
- Configure and process bank reconciliations including advanced bank reconciliations
- Configure cash flow reports
Implement cost accounting and cost management
- Describe cost accounting processes and terms
- Configure cost accounting processes
- Create a cost accounting report by using the cost accounting report wizard
- Describe and configure the costing sheet and indirect costs
- Configure cost objects and cost groups
- Implement inventory costing versions
- Differentiate between inventory costing methodologies
- Configure item groups and post profiles
- Perform inventory closing and adjustment processes
Perform periodic processes
- Configure a financial period workspace and closing schedule
- Define and demonstrate periodic closing processes and end-of-year processes
- Perform financial consolidation and elimination processes
- Configure allocation terms for the main account
- Create and process ledger allocation rules
- Implement foreign currency revaluation processes
- Create and manage financial reports including modifying in grow, column, and report definitions
Configure, collect, and report taxes
- Configure tax groups, tax codes, settlement periods, and jurisdiction
- Configure tax ledger posting groups
- Prepare periodic filings including end-of-year tax reporting
Week 6: Implement accounts receivable, credit, collections, and revenue recognition
Implement and manage accounts receivable
- Set up customers and customer posting profiles
- Configure and process free text invoices
- Process orders, invoices, and payments
- Configure customer payment setup
- Configure accounts receivable charges
- Configure bank accounts for customers
- Manage customer holds
Manage credit and collections
- Configure credit management processes
- Configure collections management processes
- Manage delinquent customers
- Prepare and send customer account statements
- Manage customer credit limits and credit holds
- Set up and process collection letters and interest notes
Configure revenue recognition
- Configure journals and parameters for revenue recognition
- Implement revenue schedules
- Enter and process revenue recognition transactions
Week 7: Implement and manage accounts payable and expenses
Implement and manage accounts payable
- Configure invoice validation policies
- Set up vendors and vendor posting profiles
- Process orders, invoices, and payments
- Configure the vendor collaboration module
- Configure vendor payments including positive pay and payment calendars
- Configure accounts payable charges
- Configure bank accounts for vendors
- Configure accounts payable journal approval settings
Configure and use expense management
- Configure expense management including categories, per diem options, mileage expenses, and personal expenses
- Configure workflows for expense management
- Describe use cases for expense management policies and the audit workbench
- Describe and configure credit card processing
- Manage expense reports
- Configure and manage cash advance settings
- Create and manage travel requisitions
Week 8: Manage budgeting
Configure and manage budget controls
- Configure budgeting components including budget models, codes, allocation terms, cycles, and transfer rules
- Configure budget controls including cycle time spans, budget parameters, budget fund availability options, budget control rules and groups, and over-budget permissions
- Create and configure registry entries
- Implement budget workflows
- Perform budget checks on documents and journals
Configure and process budget plans
- Define a budget planning process
- Plan a budget
- Create a budget plan by using scenarios, stages, allocation stages, stage allocations, and templates
- Create a budget plan template
Week 9: Manage fixed assets
Implement and manage fixed assets
- Create fixed assets and fixed assets groups
- Configure fixed asset parameters
- Describe fixed asset books and depreciation processes
- Configure fixed asset books
- Configure depreciation
Process fixed asset transactions
- Enable integration with purchasing, projects, and free text invoices
- Acquire, depreciate, and dispose of fixed assets
- Create fixed asset budgets and transfer the budgets to the budgeting module
- Estimate and perform elimination of a project to a fixed asset
Note: After the completion of week 9, students will write Exam MB-310: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant