MB-310 Practice Question: Implement and Manage Accounts Payable and Expenses
A manufacturing company uses purchase orders with three-way matching in Dynamics 365 Finance. A vendor invoice for 1,200 units arrives, but the related product receipt covers only 1,000 units. The matching policy is configured with a quantity tolerance of 0 percent. The accounts payable clerk tries to post the invoice and receives a matching discrepancy. The controller asks how to release the invoice for payment without weakening the matching policy for all future invoices. What should the clerk do?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is thinking workflow approval overrides invoice matching, when matching is evaluated independently of the workflow status.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Add a manual matching exception on the vendor invoice matching details form for the short-received quantity.
A manual matching exception is the targeted control that releases a single invoice despite a quantity discrepancy without altering the corporate matching policy. Workflow approval, item model group settings, and editing the invoice quantity either do not affect matching or distort the vendor liability, so the exception record is the correct approach for a one-off short receipt.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Change the invoice quantity to 1,000 units on the vendor invoice line before posting.
Why it's wrong here
Reducing the invoice quantity to match the receipt would release this invoice, but it would also understate the liability to the vendor by 200 units. The vendor billed for 1,200 units and will expect payment for that amount, so the ledger and the vendor balance would both be wrong. This is a data-integrity workaround rather than a controlled exception and would create downstream reconciliation problems.
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Increase the quantity tolerance percentage on the Item model group assigned to the purchased item.
Why it's wrong here
Quantity tolerances are defined in the invoice matching policy, not on the item model group, and changing a policy value would apply to every future invoice that uses that policy. The controller explicitly wants to avoid weakening the policy for all invoices. Modifying the item model group would also be the wrong configuration object, so it would not reliably release the current invoice even if the intent were acceptable.
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Approve the invoice in the 'Pending vendor invoices' list by clicking 'Approve' on the workflow work item.
Why it's wrong here
Workflow approval moves an invoice through its review process but does not override a matching discrepancy. Invoice matching is evaluated against the matching policy and receipt quantities independently of workflow status. Approving the work item would still leave the quantity mismatch unresolved, so the invoice would continue to be blocked from posting and the clerk would not achieve the release the controller requested.
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Add a manual matching exception on the vendor invoice matching details form for the short-received quantity.
Why this is correct
Vendor invoice matching details allow a user with the appropriate security role to record a manual matching exception for a specific invoice line. This releases the individual invoice while leaving the corporate matching policy and tolerances untouched. It is auditable because the exception, the user, and the date are stored, and it is the intended mechanism for one-off discrepancies such as a partial receipt that the vendor will ship later.
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