General ledger home page

Use General ledger to define and manage the legal entity’s financial records. The general ledger is a register of debit and credit entries. These entries are classified using the accounts that are listed in a chart of accounts.

• Plan your chart of accounts
• Main account types

You can allocate, or distribute, monetary amounts to one or more accounts or account and dimension combinations based on allocation rules. There are two types of allocations: fixed and variable. You can also settle transactions between ledger accounts and revalue currency amounts. At the end of a fiscal year, you must generate closing transactions and prepare your accounts for the next fiscal year. You can use the consolidation functionality to combine the financial results for several subsidiary legal entities into results for a single, consolidated organization. The subsidiaries can be in the same database or in separate databases.

• Consolidation and elimination overview
• General ledger account balances
• Financial dimensions

Sales tax

Every company collects and pays taxes to various tax authorities. The rules and rates vary by country/region, state, county, and city. In addition, the rules must be updated periodically when tax authorities change their requirements. Sales tax codes contain the basic information about how much you collect and pay to the authorities. When you set up sales tax codes, you define the amounts or percentages that must be collected. You also define the various methods by which those amounts or percentages are applied to transaction amounts. The topics in this section provide information about how to set up sales tax codes for the methods and rates that your tax authorities require.

• Sales tax overview
• Sales tax rates based on the Marginal base and Calculation methods
• Sales tax payments and rounding rules

Additional resources

What's new and in development

Go to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 release plans to see what new features have been planned.

Financial reporting

Go to the Financial reporting overview article for information about financial reports.

Blogs

You can find opinions, news, and other information on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 blog and the Microsoft Dynamics 365 finance and operations - Financials blog.

The Microsoft Dynamics Operations Partner Community Blog gives Microsoft Dynamics Partners a single resource where they can learn what is new and trending in Dynamics 365.

Videos

Check out the how-to videos that are now available on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 YouTube Channel.

Community blogs

• What you should know about ledger in Dynamics 365 Finance