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1

A Contoso controller needs to ensure that only budget amounts entered by users assigned to the 'BudgetManager' security role are included when a budget register entry is posted, while amounts from other roles are held for review. The budget register entry uses a workflow that is already active. Which configuration should the controller use to enforce this requirement?

Hard
2

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance to manage its fixed assets. The fixed asset manager needs to record the acquisition of a new vehicle. The vehicle was purchased for $30,000 and placed in service on January 15. The company uses the straight-line depreciation method with a 5-year useful life and no salvage value. Which transaction type should the manager use to record the acquisition?

Easy
3

A company uses budget control on a specific range of expense accounts. A purchase order is entered for $5,000 against an account with a remaining budget of $3,000. The budget control configuration is set to 'Warning' for over-budget. What happens when the user tries to confirm the purchase order?

Hard
4

A fixed asset accountant needs to record the acquisition of a new server that was purchased on credit. Which journal type should be used in Dynamics 365 Finance to record the acquisition and ensure the correct ledger accounts are updated?

Easy
5

An organization using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance wants to ensure that when a purchase requisition is submitted, it is checked against the available budget before it can proceed to approval. They have already configured budget control and enabled it for the legal entity. What must be configured next to enforce this check specifically on purchase requisitions?

Hard
6

A fixed asset has been fully depreciated but is still in use. The company decides to sell the asset for $5,000. The asset's value model has a net book value of $0. Which transaction type should be used to record the sale and remove the asset from the fixed asset subledger?

Hard
7

Your company uses a Cash flow forecasting model. How are the settings in the 'Cash flow forecast setup' form applied to the general ledger?

Medium
8

What is the function of 'Main account categories' in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Easy
9

A company decides to upgrade an existing production machine, which increases the asset's useful life by three years. How should this be handled in Dynamics 365 Finance to maintain accurate financial records?

Hard
10

Your organization uses a shared Chart of Accounts across multiple legal entities. You need to ensure that specific main accounts are only used in a particular legal entity. How should you achieve this?

Medium
11

Refer to the exhibit. An accountant attempts to post a journal with a transaction date of 2024-05-15. The period status is set to 'OnHold'. What occurs?

Medium
12

A multinational company is implementing budget control in Dynamics 365 Finance. The company wants to ensure that budget checks are performed for purchase requisitions and purchase orders, and that over-budget transactions are prevented from posting. The company also wants to allow certain users to override budget check failures. Which two configurations are required to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Hard
13

When setting up a new main account, you must define the 'Main account category'. What is the purpose of this field?

Medium
14

An accounts payable clerk must process a weekly payment run that pays all approved vendor invoices due within the next seven days while excluding invoices on payment hold. The clerk wants the system to generate the payment lines automatically rather than entering them manually. Which feature should the clerk use?

Easy
15

You are configuring a new fixed asset group for office furniture. The company policy requires that depreciation be calculated using the reducing balance method with a 20% annual rate, and that a half-year convention be applied in the first year of service. Which two parameters must you configure in the fixed asset group or book to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Hard
16

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance with multiple legal entities. The corporate controller needs to consolidate financial results from two subsidiary legal entities into a parent legal entity. The subsidiaries use different chart of accounts, but the parent requires consolidated reporting using its own chart of accounts. The subsidiaries have transactions in different currencies. Which consolidation method should be used to meet these requirements?

Hard
17

A user is receiving an error when trying to close the fiscal year. The error states that the opening transactions cannot be created because the account structure is incomplete. What should you check first?

Medium
18

A functional consultant is configuring a new legal entity in Dynamics 365 Finance. The organization wants to ensure that when users enter a main account, they are also required to specify a cost center financial dimension. The chart of accounts has already been created, and financial dimensions have been set up. Which configuration should the consultant apply to enforce this requirement?

Easy
19

You are configuring budget control in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. A finance manager wants to ensure that purchase orders do not exceed available budget funds, and any purchase order exceeding the budget must be routed through workflow for approval rather than being permanently blocked immediately. Which budget control action should you configure?

Medium
20

Refer to the exhibit. An accountant needs to add a 'Project' dimension to specific expense accounts. How should this be configured?

Hard
21

A company requires that all expense reports are reviewed by a manager before they are posted to the General Ledger. Which configuration fulfills this requirement?

Medium
22

A finance user needs to review the budget versus actual expenditures for a specific department for the current year. Which Dynamics 365 Finance feature should they use?

Easy
23

Refer to the exhibit. The system displays a 'Validated' status for a batch. What is the next logical step to finalize the financial transaction?

Hard
24

Refer to the exhibit. What is the cause of this error when posting a vendor invoice?

Hard
25

Refer to the exhibit. An accountant reports that they cannot post a journal because the system throws a validation error for a transaction involving a Main Account that does not have a Cost Center dimension. Based on the configuration in the exhibit, what is the cause?

Medium
26

A shared-services accounts payable team is preparing to run a weekly vendor payment proposal for 400 vendors. The team wants the proposal to consider only invoices that are due within the next ten days and only for vendors assigned to the 'Domestic' vendor group, and to exclude any invoice that is already in a payment hold. Which TWO parameters or filters must the team configure on the Vendor payment proposal to achieve this? (Choose two.)

Medium
27

What is the primary benefit of using a 'Vendor posting profile'?

Medium
28

What is the purpose of the 'Vendor collaboration' module in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Easy
29

Your company needs to report on financial dimensions for both local and consolidated levels. Which feature should you use to satisfy this requirement?

Medium
30

You are configuring the vendor invoice workflow to route invoices for approval based on the invoice amount. You need to ensure that invoices over $10,000 require approval by the accounts payable manager, while invoices under $10,000 are auto-approved. Which TWO configuration steps are required to achieve this? (Choose two.)

Hard
31

When configuring the General Ledger, why is it necessary to map every main account to an 'Account category'?

Medium
32

You need to configure a periodic expense accrual that occurs on the first day of every month for a fixed amount. Which feature should you use?

Medium
33

An accountant at a manufacturing company creates a new fixed asset for a specialized milling machine. The asset is acquired through a vendor invoice, but the accountant forgets to assign a depreciation book before posting the acquisition. What must the accountant do to resolve this issue and enable depreciation processing?

Medium
34

Your organization requires that a fixed asset be depreciated over a specific number of years, but the depreciation amount must be higher in the earlier years of the asset's life. Which depreciation profile should you configure?

Medium
35

A Contoso financial analyst is preparing the annual budget and needs to enter original budget amounts for several departments. The organization wants the amounts to be available for budget control as soon as they are entered. Which budget register entry type should the analyst use?

Easy
36

A new accounts payable clerk at your company processes a vendor invoice that includes a line for office supplies. The clerk needs to assign the correct main account and include a cost center financial dimension before posting. Which configuration element determines that the main account 601200 'Office Supplies Expense' must be accompanied by a cost center dimension, and prevents posting if it is missing?

Easy
37

Which THREE components are required to successfully process a vendor payment using the 'Vendor payment journal'?

Hard
38

Your organization wants to automate the distribution of invoices. Which setup allows the system to split invoice lines across different departments automatically based on predefined rules?

Medium
39

What is the purpose of the 'Vendor payment fee' setup?

Easy
40

Your company requires specific documents to be evaluated against budget funds before they affect the general ledger. Which TWO source documents can be configured for budget control validation in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance? Select two.

Hard
41

A company realizes that several office chairs were incorrectly assigned to the 'Vehicles' fixed asset group. They need to move these assets to the 'Office Furniture' group while ensuring that all historical transactions remain linked to the assets. Which function should be used?

Easy
42

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance Accounts Payable. The AP manager is configuring the Vendor invoice matching policy to enforce two-way matching for a specific vendor. The manager needs to ensure that the system validates the invoice against the purchase order and prevents posting if the quantity or price variance exceeds the tolerance. Which two configurations must the manager set up to achieve this? (Choose two.)

Hard
43

A wholesale distributor wants to automatically place a customer on credit hold when an invoice becomes 60 days past due. The credit manager needs the hold to prevent new sales orders from being confirmed but still allow payments to be posted. Which configuration should the credit manager set up?

Easy
44

A company is setting up a new fixed asset and wants to record the acquisition cost, but the asset will not be placed in service until a later date. The accountant needs to record the acquisition now and begin depreciating when the asset is placed in service. Which field on the fixed asset value model should be configured to control when depreciation starts?

Easy
45

You are setting up a new legal entity that requires a fiscal calendar with a specific start date. You must ensure that the fiscal year is divided into 13 periods of 4 weeks each. Which setup should you perform?

Medium
46

A company needs to track financial transactions by both department and project. Which configuration ensures that these dimensions are mandatory during ledger entry?

Medium
47

A subscription billing company needs to recognize revenue for a subscription that spans multiple periods. The subscription starts on January 1 and ends on December 31, with a total contract value of $12,000. Revenue should be recognized evenly over the subscription period. Which revenue recognition method should the functional consultant configure?

Medium
48

A company is setting up fixed assets in Dynamics 365 Finance. They need to create a new asset that will be depreciated using the reducing balance method. Which two configurations are required to enable this? (Choose two.)

Medium
49

A user in the Accounts payable department is trying to post an invoice journal for a vendor, but the system returns the error 'Posting has been cancelled because the accounting distribution is not fully allocated.' The invoice total is $12,000, but the distribution lines only sum to $10,000. What is the most likely cause of this error?

Medium
50

Refer to the exhibit. A user attempts to create a purchase order for the 'Marketing' department. Based on the configuration provided in the exhibit, what will happen when the user submits the purchase order?

Hard
51

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance and wants to ensure that when a fixed asset is sold, the gain or loss is automatically posted to the correct general ledger accounts. The consultant must configure the accounts that will be used for the disposal transaction. Where should the consultant define the ledger accounts for the disposal sale?

Easy
52

A company is setting up a fixed asset that was acquired in a foreign currency. The company's accounting currency is USD, and the asset was purchased for 10,000 EUR. The exchange rate at acquisition was 1.2 USD/EUR. The company wants to ensure that the asset's historical cost in USD is correctly recorded and that any subsequent exchange rate fluctuations do not affect the asset's depreciation. Which setup should be used?

Medium
53

A company performs a major engine overhaul on a delivery truck that extends the truck's useful life by two years. The cost of the overhaul is $5,000. How should this transaction be recorded in the Fixed assets module?

Medium
54

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing the configuration for a company's ledger. The system is set to 'HardStop' for account structure validation. What happens when a user attempts to post a journal entry that violates the account structure?

Hard
55

A company is setting up a new fixed asset value model for office furniture. The company wants to use the straight-line depreciation method over a useful life of 10 years. The asset will be acquired on January 1 for USD 12,000. The company uses a calendar year fiscal period. What will be the annual depreciation expense for this asset?

Easy
56

Refer to the exhibit. A user attempts to post a general journal, but receives this error. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
57

What is the primary function of a 'Depreciation Book' in Dynamics 365 Finance compared to a 'Value Model'?

Medium
58

Refer to the exhibit. An accountant attempts to run the foreign currency revaluation batch job in General ledger and encounters the error shown in the JSON log. What is the root cause of this failure?

Hard
59

What is the primary purpose of the 'Budget cycle time span' configuration?

Easy
60

A retail company uses Dynamics 365 Finance to manage vendor payments. The AP manager notices that a vendor invoice for $10,000 was posted with a payment term of Net 30, but the vendor offers a 2% discount if paid within 10 days. The manager wants the system to automatically calculate and apply the discount when the payment proposal includes the invoice within the discount period. What should the manager configure on the vendor invoice?

Easy
61

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance to process vendor payments. The treasury team wants to generate a payment proposal for a specific vendor group that includes only invoices due in the next 14 days, and they want to exclude any invoices that are on hold. After the proposal is generated, they need to review and remove selected invoices before posting. What should they do?

Hard
62

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance. You need to set up a customer payment proposal that includes only invoices with a due date on or before a specified date, and you want to automatically write off any cash discount that is not taken. Which configuration should you use?

Medium
63

Your company uses vendor payment proposals in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance to select invoices for payment. During proposal generation, you need to ensure that invoices eligible for cash discounts are prioritized, and payments are restricted to a maximum total disbursement amount. Where should you configure these specific selection criteria?

Medium
64

A company wants to charge a $15 wire transfer fee each time a vendor is paid by wire. The fee should be automatically added to the payment journal line when the wire payment method is used. What should you configure?

Medium
65

A consultant is implementing subscription billing for a company that offers software as a service (SaaS). The company wants to bill customers in advance for a 12-month subscription, but wants to recognize revenue monthly over the subscription period. The consultant sets up a billing schedule with a yearly frequency and a 12-month duration. Which additional configuration is required to defer revenue and recognize it monthly?

Hard
66

A budget analyst at Contoso needs to transfer budget amounts between two main accounts within the same department for the current fiscal year. Which budget register entry type should the analyst use?

Easy
67

A company uses budget planning in Dynamics 365 Finance. The budget planning process includes multiple stages with workflows. The finance team wants to ensure that when a budget plan is rejected at any stage, it is returned to the originator for revision, and that the originator can resubmit it without creating a new budget plan. Which configuration should you implement?

Hard
68

An organization wants to perform financial consolidation for multiple legal entities. They have different charts of accounts. What is the best way to handle this?

Medium
69

A consultant is setting up fixed assets in Dynamics 365 Finance for a new legal entity. The company wants to use the fixed asset module to track assets for both financial reporting and tax reporting, with different depreciation methods for each. Which two configurations are required to support this requirement? (Choose two.)

Medium
70

Refer to the exhibit. An accountant reports that they are still able to post invoices exceeding $100.00 without being blocked. Based on the provided policy JSON, why is this occurring?

Medium
71

A US-based legal entity in Dynamics 365 Finance uses the calendar year as its fiscal year, and its fixed asset books are configured to automatically create depreciation adjustments when the fiscal calendar changes. In March, the company's leadership approves a change to the corporate fiscal calendar: the fiscal year will now begin on July 1 instead of January 1, effective immediately for the current year. The fixed asset manager must update the fiscal calendar in Dynamics 365 Finance so that depreciation projections and journal entries align with the new fiscal year. What is the FIRST action the manager should take?

Medium
72

When reviewing budget plan lines, you notice that the 'Actual' data is not appearing as expected. What is the most likely cause for this missing information?

Medium
73

A vendor invoice is entered with a total of $10,000. The vendor offers a cash discount of 1% if paid within 10 days. The invoice is paid on day 8. The payment journal is created without manually adjusting the amount. What will be the result when the payment is posted?

Medium
74

Which TWO of the following are valid methods to acquire a fixed asset in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Medium
75

Refer to the exhibit. What is the most likely cause of this error during posting?

Hard
76

A company is implementing Dynamics 365 Finance and needs to ensure that when a purchase order invoice is posted, the expense is allocated to the correct department and cost center. The company uses financial dimensions for Department and Cost Center. The vendor invoice must inherit these dimensions from the purchase order line. What should you configure to achieve this?

Medium
77

Which type of journal should you use to record a correction to a transaction that has already been posted to the General Ledger?

Medium
78

Which feature allows you to prevent users from posting to a specific ledger account while allowing posting to all others?

Medium
79

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance. They need to automatically create collection activities when customer invoices become overdue. Collection activities should be generated based on aging periods, and the system must prevent duplicate activities for the same invoice. Which configuration should you use?

Medium
80

A legal firm uses Dynamics 365 Finance to reimburse attorneys for bar association dues and continuing legal education (CLE) courses. The firm's policy states that bar association dues must be reimbursed at 100%, while CLE courses require prior approval from a managing partner. The accounts payable manager needs to configure the system so that these rules are enforced automatically when expense reports are submitted. What should the manager configure?

Medium
81

A controller is reviewing a vendor invoice that was posted with an incorrect expense amount. The invoice is already posted and the accounting period is still open. The controller needs to correct the expense account and amount while preserving a clear audit trail, and the vendor balance must also be adjusted. Which action should the controller take?

Medium
82

A US-based legal services firm posts a free-text invoice for $12,000 with payment terms of 2/10, Net 30. The customer emails on day 8 asking to take the discount, but the payment will not arrive until day 15. A collections clerk wants to grant the discount anyway to preserve the relationship. Which Accounts receivable setup should the clerk use to allow the discount after the discount date without editing the original invoice?

Medium
83

Where do you define the default accounts for vendor payments in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Easy
84

What is the primary function of a 'Ledger allocation rule'?

Medium
85

You are setting up budget control for a new fiscal year in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. The finance director wants to prevent any purchase order from exceeding the available budget for the MainAccount dimension. What should you do first?

Easy
86

A public sector organization uses Dynamics 365 Finance budgeting. They need to enforce that purchase orders cannot exceed the available budget for a specific combination of main account and department. Which configuration should they implement?

Hard
87

What is the primary function of the 'Ledger' setup page in General Ledger?

Easy
88

Which THREE items are included in the configuration of an 'Advanced rule' for account structures? (Choose THREE)

Medium
89

A company is reviewing its fixed asset depreciation setup in Dynamics 365 Finance before year-end close. The controller asks the functional consultant to identify which TWO statements accurately describe how depreciation conventions interact with depreciation methods and how they affect the first and last periods of an asset's life. (Choose two.)

Hard
90

An organization operating in multiple countries requires financial consolidation in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. Subsidiary companies utilize different reporting currencies and have distinct fiscal calendars. How should you configure the consolidation parameters?

Medium
91

A junior consultant is reviewing budget register entries in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance for a client. The client wants to know which entry type increases the available budget balance for a department without requiring a transfer from another department. Which budget register entry type should the consultant identify as increasing available budget?

Easy
92

A company in Dynamics 365 Finance wants to track the depreciation of its fixed assets for both book and tax purposes. The controller asks the functional consultant to explain how the system supports this dual reporting requirement without duplicating asset records. Which statement best describes the recommended approach?

Easy
93

Which report should a controller use to verify the balance of all accounts in the general ledger before closing the period?

Medium
94

When defining a Fiscal Calendar, what is the purpose of the 'Period' type?

Easy
95

What is the consequence of selecting the 'Depreciation adjustment' transaction type in a fixed asset journal?

Medium
96

A subscription billing company needs to recognize revenue for a monthly subscription evenly over the service period. The subscription is billed annually in advance. Which revenue recognition setup should the functional consultant configure to ensure revenue is deferred and recognized monthly?

Medium
97

A user in the Accounts payable department is trying to post an invoice, but the system displays an error that the accounting date is not in an open period. The user has confirmed that the invoice date is within the current month. What is the most likely cause of this error?

Easy
98

A Contoso finance team discovers that a posted vendor invoice did not undergo budget control even though budget control is enabled for the account structure. The team confirms the invoice was posted through the Accounts payable module. What is the most likely reason the budget check was bypassed?

Medium
99

A company is acquiring a fleet of vehicles and needs to track them as fixed assets. Which TWO setups must be completed in Dynamics 365 Finance to ensure these assets are fully operational and depreciable?

Hard
100

A company has a fixed asset with a value model that uses the 'Reducing balance' depreciation method with a factor of 200 and a useful life of 5 years. After the first year, the net book value is 60,000. The accountant notices that the depreciation for the second year is calculated differently than expected and asks the consultant to explain how the reducing balance method computes depreciation in Dynamics 365 Finance. What should the consultant explain?

Hard
101

Your organization requires a specific currency conversion rate for intercompany transactions that differs from the daily market rate. Where should this be configured?

Hard
102

Which component in Dynamics 365 Finance is used to categorize financial transactions for reporting purposes while maintaining the integrity of the Chart of Accounts?

Easy
103

Your company uses the accrual basis of accounting. You need to ensure that expenses are recognized in the period they are incurred, even if the invoice is paid later. Which feature should you configure to automate this?

Medium
104

A new accounts payable clerk must record a vendor invoice that is not tied to a purchase order. The clerk needs the invoice to be available for a payment proposal in the next payment run. Which journal type should the clerk use to enter the invoice?

Easy
105

A credit manager needs to review a customer's credit history, including credit limits, current balance, and any credit holds, directly from the customer record. They also want to see a graphical representation of the customer's credit utilization. Which workspace should they use?

Medium
106

A client is implementing Budget control and needs to ensure that the system checks for available budget before allowing a purchase requisition to be submitted. Which configuration is required?

Hard
107

A user needs to enter a vendor payment proposal that includes all invoices due within the next 30 days, but exclude any invoices that are on hold. Which payment proposal option should be used?

Easy
108

A company is implementing budget control in Dynamics 365 Finance. They need to ensure that budget checks are performed for purchase requisitions and purchase orders. Which two configurations are required? (Choose two.)

Medium
109

When configuring a bank reconciliation, what is the purpose of the 'Bank statement format'?

Medium
110

Refer to the exhibit. You are configuring budget control for a new department. After enabling the budget control rule, you receive the error message shown in the exhibit when attempting to process a transaction. What is the root cause of this error?

Hard
111

A company requires that all purchase orders exceeding $50,000 must be approved by the Finance Director, while lower amounts only require Department Manager approval. Which feature should you configure to enforce this requirement?

Medium
112

A Dynamics 365 Finance user needs to transfer budget amounts from one department to another within the same fiscal year. The organization uses budget register entries for all budget adjustments. Which budget code should the user select to record this transfer?

Easy
113

An organization uses Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance to manage budget control. During purchase order entry, users receive an error stating that the budget limit has been exceeded, but the finance manager needs certain critical purchase orders to bypass this check temporarily without modifying the global budget control configuration. What should you configure to support this requirement?

Medium
114

When setting up a vendor, what is the primary function of a 'Vendor group'?

Medium
115

A multinational company in Dynamics 365 Finance has a fixed asset book configured with a reducing balance depreciation method and a Half year (start of year) convention. An accountant notices that for an asset placed in service on October 15, the first depreciation journal posted a full half-year of depreciation in the current fiscal year, and the remaining half will be applied in the final year of the asset's life. The controller wants to understand why this happened and whether it is correct. What should the functional consultant explain?

Hard
116

Your company uses a Shared Chart of Accounts. You need to restrict the use of a specific main account to only one legal entity. How should you proceed?

Medium
117

Refer to the exhibit. Why is the system preventing further depreciation for asset A001?

Hard
118

Refer to the exhibit. Why is the system displaying a warning for this fixed asset journal?

Hard
119

A senior accountant needs to review financial statements that combine actual balances with budget forecasts and statistical key performance indicators. Which tool in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance should you recommend?

Easy
120

A company has a fixed asset that was acquired with a cost of 50,000 and has accumulated depreciation of 30,000. The company decides to sell the asset for 25,000. The Fixed asset posting profile for disposal-sale is configured with a main account for gain/loss. What is the correct accounting entry for this disposal in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Medium
121

A company has a fixed asset that was acquired in a previous year and has been fully depreciated. The asset is still in use but has no book value. The company wants to continue using the asset but does not want to incur additional depreciation. What should they do?

Medium
122

A company acquires a new piece of machinery and wants to include the freight and installation costs in the asset's acquisition cost. The invoice for the machinery has been posted, and the freight and installation costs are on a separate vendor invoice. Which transaction type should be used to add these additional costs to the fixed asset?

Medium
123

A fixed asset accountant needs to transfer a fully depreciated asset from the Production department to the Marketing department, but the asset will remain in service and continue to be tracked. The transfer should not affect the asset's financial value. Which action should the accountant perform in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Easy
124

An accounts payable manager needs to pay several outstanding invoices from the same vendor in a single bank transfer instead of issuing a separate payment for each invoice. The vendor is already set up with a bank account and the invoices are due. What should the manager configure or use so the invoices are consolidated into one payment?

Easy
125

You are setting up the Sales Tax system. Which TWO requirements must be met to successfully calculate sales tax for a vendor invoice?

Hard
126

How do you ensure that all transactions in a journal are balanced before posting?

Medium
127

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance to manage customer payments. The accounts receivable manager wants to automatically apply customer payments to open invoices based on a predefined priority, such as invoices with the earliest due date first. Which feature should the consultant configure to achieve this?

Easy
128

A company wants to offer a discount to customers who pay their invoices within 10 days. The invoice total is $1,000, and the discount is 2% if paid within 10 days, otherwise the net amount is due within 30 days. Which configuration should you use in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Medium
129

You are a functional consultant configuring a new legal entity in Dynamics 365 Finance. The organization requires that vendor invoices posted in this legal entity be automatically posted to a balancing financial dimension representing the department, based on the vendor's default department. Which feature should you configure to enforce this without requiring manual entry on each invoice?

Medium
130

A vendor invoice for 1,200 EUR is posted on March 15 with an exchange rate to USD of 1.10, resulting in a payable of 1,320 USD. The invoice remains unpaid at the end of the month. On March 31, the exchange rate is 1.15. The accounts payable manager runs the foreign currency revaluation for accounts payable. Which ledger account is debited by the revaluation posting, and for what amount?

Medium
131

A company is implementing Dynamics 365 Finance and needs to configure depreciation for a new asset. The asset will use a straight-line depreciation method with a 5-year service life. Which two settings must be configured on the value model to achieve this? (Choose two.)

Medium
132

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator has configured this policy. Why are users still able to post to account 11000?

Hard
133

A user in the General ledger module needs to create a journal entry that includes a main account that is configured as a 'Balance sheet' account with a financial dimension of 'Department'. The user wants to ensure that the department dimension is mandatory for this account. Which configuration should be set up to enforce this requirement?

Easy
134

A new Accounts payable clerk at Contoso, a legal entity in Dynamics 365 Finance, tries to enter a vendor invoice for a vendor that was created yesterday. The clerk can see the vendor in the Vendors list but receives a message that the vendor is on hold and the invoice cannot be posted. The vendor's on-hold status was set during creation because the vendor's tax registration number had not yet been verified. The clerk needs to post the invoice today without deleting the vendor. What should you do?

Medium
135

A legal firm uses Dynamics 365 Finance for accounts payable. When a new vendor is created, the firm must ensure that all future vendor invoices for that vendor are automatically eligible for 1099 reporting. Which configuration should you set on the vendor record?

Medium
136

A subscription billing company sells a monthly service. A customer is billed on the first day of each month and pays on the fifteenth. The company wants to recognize revenue evenly across the month and automatically create the billing schedule for the next twelve months when a sales order is confirmed. Which feature should the functional consultant configure?

Hard
137

A vendor invoice for $12,000 has a payment term of Net 30. The accounting manager wants the system to automatically apply a 2% early payment discount if the invoice is paid within 10 days. The discount is not currently being calculated on the payment proposal. You need to configure the system so the discount is calculated and posted correctly. What should you do first?

Medium
138

A consulting firm in Dynamics 365 Finance wants to record the cost of reconfiguring a leased office space as a fixed asset. The improvements are expected to benefit the company for the remaining five years of the lease term, and the company wants depreciation to align with the lease term rather than the asset's physical life. The lease does not transfer ownership. Which approach should the functional consultant recommend?

Medium
139

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance with a single legal entity. The controller wants to ensure that all expense accounts require a financial dimension value for 'Department' and 'CostCenter' when posting. The dimensions are already created and linked to the chart of accounts. Which configuration should be applied to enforce this requirement?

Hard
140

A company is configuring expense management in Dynamics 365 Finance. Controllers want to ensure that expense reports submitted by employees are routed to the correct approver and that certain categories require a receipt. Which two configurations should the functional consultant set up? (Choose two.)

Medium
141

Your organization requires that all ledger entries for a specific legal entity be posted in the functional currency, but reports must be generated in a secondary reporting currency. Which configuration step is mandatory in the Ledger form?

Medium
142

Your company is implementing Budget planning. Which TWO actions must be completed to successfully import budget data from Microsoft Excel? (Choose two)

Medium
143

A vendor invoice for 100 units of an item is entered for a purchase order line that has a confirmed quantity of 100 units, but the product receipt was posted for only 80 units. The invoice matching policy for the legal entity requires three-way matching and has 'Allow matching discrepancies' disabled. A user attempts to post the invoice. What happens when the user clicks Post?

Medium
144

Which report should you run to verify that all subledger transactions have been successfully transferred to the General Ledger?

Medium
145

A company needs to pay multiple invoices for a single vendor in one payment. Which feature should they use to combine these invoices into a single payment?

Medium
146

A legal entity in Dynamics 365 Finance uses a single chart of accounts and needs to allocate shared electricity costs from a cost pool to three departments based on their square footage. The allocation must be calculated and posted to the general ledger monthly. Which two actions must you perform to set up this allocation? (Choose two.)

Hard
147

A fixed asset in Dynamics 365 Finance has a net book value of $10,000. The company decides to sell the asset for $12,000. Which transaction type should be used to record the sale?

Easy
148

Which THREE steps are necessary to set up Budget planning for a new fiscal year? (Choose three)

Hard
149

An enterprise client using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance wants to configure budget planning stages and workflows. Which TWO actions must you complete to ensure budget planners can successfully submit worksheets for review? Each correct answer represents part of the solution.

Hard
150

A company is implementing budget control in Dynamics 365 Finance. The budget manager needs to ensure that purchase requisitions are checked against available budget before they can be approved, and that overspending is prevented. Which two configuration steps are required to enforce budget control on purchase requisitions? (Choose two.)

Hard
151

Refer to the exhibit. An accountant attempts to modify the acquisition price on a fixed asset record after posting a monthly depreciation run, resulting in the displayed error message. How should you resolve this issue?

Medium
152

A company needs to allocate shared costs from a central department to three different operational departments based on headcount. Which allocation method is best suited for this?

Hard
153

What is the purpose of the 'Vendor invoice' journal?

Easy
154

A company needs to pay a vendor in a currency different from the accounting currency. Where is the currency set for the vendor?

Medium
155

A Contoso finance specialist is configuring budget control for a new fiscal year. The company wants to ensure that when a purchase requisition is submitted, the system checks whether sufficient budget remains. The budget manager selects the budget control rule and the budget funds available definition. However, when a test purchase requisition is submitted, no budget check occurs. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
156

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance. Customers are grouped into customer pools, and the collections team wants to generate a list of customers with overdue balances that can be worked through in a single page. The collections supervisor needs to create a collection letter sequence that applies a different letter text for each aging period and posts a fee to the customer account. Which configuration should you use?

Medium
157

An accounts payable clerk in Dynamics 365 Finance needs to record a vendor invoice that has no purchase order reference, and the invoice must be posted immediately to the vendor balance without going through a pending invoice approval. Which journal should the clerk use?

Easy
158

A Contoso budget manager needs to allow department managers to draft budget plan lines and attach supporting documentation, but the lines must not affect the approved budget until a controller reviews and approves them. The budget planning workflow already includes a controller approval task. Which configuration should you apply to the budget planning stage that department managers use?

Medium
159

A Contoso budget analyst is using budget planning in Dynamics 365 Finance. The analyst needs to create a budget plan that pulls actual expenditure from the previous fiscal year as a starting point, applies a 5 percent increase, and then allows department managers to adjust the lines. Which sequence of configuration elements should the analyst use?

Hard
160

A Fabrikam controller creates a budget transfer in the budget register. The transfer moves 50,000 from the Operations budget account to the Marketing budget account. Both accounts are under budget control with the same budget model and budget cycle. After posting the transfer, the controller notices that budget control availability for Operations decreased, but Marketing availability did not increase. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
161

When setting up a new legal entity, which component is required to enable financial transactions?

Medium
162

Refer to the exhibit. A user submits an expense report for $75.00 under the 'Meals' category. Based on the provided policy JSON, what is the outcome during the expense submission process?

Hard
163

A new Accounts payable clerk in your organization attempts to create a vendor invoice but cannot see the 'Post' button. The clerk's security role is 'Accounts payable clerk'. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
164

A company is implementing a new Chart of Accounts (COA) and wants to ensure that specific main accounts cannot be used for direct manual entries. Which configuration should you use?

Medium
165

You are setting up budget control for a legal entity that uses multiple budget dimensions, including Department, CostCenter, and Purpose. The finance team wants budget checks to validate only the Department and CostCenter dimensions, ignoring Purpose. Which configuration should you modify to achieve this?

Medium
166

A company uses subscription billing and needs to group multiple subscription charges into a single invoice for each customer. They want to ensure that all charges for a customer are billed together on the same invoice, regardless of the subscription start dates. Which subscription billing parameter should they configure?

Easy
167

A company uses the Expense management module. An employee submits an expense report that includes a hotel charge of 500 USD. The expense policy requires a receipt for any expense over 100 USD. The employee did not attach a receipt. The policy is configured with the 'Receipt required' rule and the 'Warn' action. What happens when the employee submits the report?

Hard
168

Which feature in Dynamics 365 Finance allows you to re-evaluate foreign currency balances at the end of the month?

Medium
169

You want to prevent users from editing posted transactions in the General ledger. Which security or configuration setting is the most appropriate?

Hard
170

What is the purpose of the 'Fixed Asset Posting Profile' in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Medium
171

Which report should you run to verify that the General Ledger balances match the sub-ledger balances?

Easy
172

You are configuring budget control for a new legal entity in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. The organization requires that budget checks occur for purchase requisitions and vendor invoices, and that over-budget warnings are displayed to users without preventing posting. Which two configuration actions must you perform to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Hard
173

Your organization wants to automate the calculation of unrealized gains and losses at the end of each month. What is the recommended approach?

Medium
174

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance to bill customers for recurring maintenance services. The billing schedule must generate invoices monthly, but the amount must be prorated for the first and last periods based on the number of days. The consultant sets up a billing schedule with a monthly frequency. Which configuration should the consultant use to ensure proration occurs correctly?

Hard
175

A legal firm processes vendor invoices centrally in its US legal entity (LE-US) but needs the related expense and payment to be recorded in the Canadian legal entity (LE-CA) to reduce intercompany reconciliation effort. The vendor is defined in both legal entities and the invoice has already been posted in LE-US. You need to configure the system so the invoice can be posted once in LE-US and automatically create the corresponding vendor invoice and liability in LE-CA. What should you do?

Medium
176

Which TWO of the following are prerequisites for setting up a vendor payment run using the payment proposal feature? (Choose two)

Medium
177

What is the purpose of the 'Financial dimension sets' in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Easy
178

A company pays a vendor in a foreign currency. The invoice is posted in EUR, but the company's accounting currency is USD. When the payment is made, the exchange rate has changed, resulting in a realized gain or loss. You need to ensure that the realized gain or loss is automatically posted to the correct ledger account. What should you configure?

Hard
179

A Contoso finance team is configuring budget control in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. They want to prevent posting of a vendor invoice when the remaining budget for the combination of main account 6100 and Department 20 is insufficient, but they also need to allow a limited overspend of 5 percent before the system blocks the transaction. The budget manager must be notified by email when the threshold is crossed. Which configuration should the team perform?

Hard
180

A consulting firm uses Dynamics 365 Finance for expense management. Employees often submit expense reports that include both client-billable and internal expenses. The firm's policy requires that client-billable expenses be charged to a specific customer and project, while internal expenses are charged to a default department. The expense management administrator needs to ensure that employees can select the customer and project on expense lines when the expense is billable. What should the administrator configure?

Medium
181

An accounts payable clerk needs to record a vendor invoice that was received without a purchase order. The invoice is for office supplies and should be recorded directly against an expense account. Which transaction type should the clerk use in Dynamics 365 Finance?

Easy
182

A vendor invoice for $12,000 is posted in Legal entity A. The shared service center in Legal entity B must pay this invoice on behalf of Legal entity A using centralized payments. You configure the payment journal in Legal entity B and select the invoice for payment. Which configuration must be in place so that the accounting entries are recorded correctly in Legal entity A while the payment is processed from Legal entity B?

Medium
183

When running a consolidation, you notice that the data is not appearing in the consolidated company. What is the first thing you should check?

Medium
184

An organization plans to implement budget control in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance. You must define the rules for checking budget funds prior to posting documents. Which component must you configure to establish these validation parameters?

Medium
185

A company uses invoice matching on purchase orders. A vendor invoice for a purchase order has a quantity of 100 units at $10 each, but the product receipt shows 95 units received. The invoice matching policy is set to three-way matching with a quantity tolerance of 2%. The invoice is currently on hold. You need to determine why the invoice is on hold and what action will release it. What is the correct explanation?

Hard
186

When migrating fixed assets into Dynamics 365 Finance, which method ensures that the net book value is correctly stated without triggering an incorrect depreciation calculation for prior periods?

Medium
187

A subscription billing company sells a 12-month support plan billed monthly in advance. The customer cancels after month 4 and is entitled to a prorated credit for the unused months. The billing specialist must generate the credit without leaving the recurring billing schedule open and must ensure revenue is not recognized for the cancelled period. Which action should the specialist take?

Hard
188

Your company uses 'Bonus depreciation' for tax purposes. Which setup allows for an additional depreciation amount in the first year of an asset's life?

Hard
189

A Dynamics 365 Finance consultant is configuring the Accounts receivable module for a company that sells to other businesses. The company wants to automatically place a customer on credit hold when their overdue balance exceeds a specific threshold. The consultant needs to set up the credit management functionality. Which configuration should the consultant perform first?

Medium
190

You are setting up a vendor that operates in multiple currencies. How should you define the currency for this vendor to ensure correct exchange rate usage?

Medium
191

A consulting firm has a fixed asset value model for a high-end server with an acquisition cost of USD 20,000 and a salvage value of USD 2,000. The firm uses the reducing balance depreciation method with a factor of 20%, and the asset was placed in service on January 1. The firm wants to know the depreciation amount for the first year. What will the system calculate as the depreciation expense for the first year?

Medium
192

A company reimburses employees for travel expenses through the Expense management module. The controller wants to ensure that when an employee submits an expense report, the system automatically routes it to the employee's cost center manager first and then to the corporate travel approver, without the employee choosing approvers. Which configuration should the functional consultant implement?

Hard
193

A company requires that vendor invoices for services be approved by the department manager before they can be posted. Which configuration must be enabled in Accounts payable parameters?

Medium
194

A controller wants to ensure that whenever an acquisition is posted for a 'Tax' book, an identical acquisition is automatically posted for the 'Corporate' book. Which feature should be used to achieve this automation?

Medium
195

Your organization requires that a specific user can only post vendor invoices for a specific department. Which security configuration component should you utilize to enforce this restriction?

Medium
196

A legal entity in Dynamics 365 Finance uses a fiscal calendar with 12 monthly periods. A new fixed asset is placed in service on March 18. The asset's value model is configured with a depreciation convention of 'Half year' and a depreciation profile using the Straight line service life method. The asset's service life is 5 years. How will depreciation be calculated for the first fiscal year?

Medium
197

A legal entity in Dynamics 365 Finance needs to reclassify a fixed asset from the Furniture group to the Office Equipment group because the asset was misclassified at acquisition. The asset has never been depreciated. Which transaction type should the functional consultant use to move the asset to the correct fixed asset group without changing its net book value?

Medium
198

A legal entity has the Enable process automation check box selected in General ledger parameters. A recurring journal named 'MonthlyAccruals' is configured with a start date of January 1, 2024, and an end date of December 31, 2024, with a frequency of monthly. It is currently February 15, 2024. A user reports that the journal is not being posted automatically for February. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
199

A company wants employees to submit expense reports through the Expense Management workspace, and the controller must approve reports before reimbursement. Employees should only be able to select expense categories assigned to their policy. Which setup controls which expense categories an employee can choose on an expense report?

Medium
200

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?

Hard
201

A company uses Dynamics 365 Finance and has a legal entity in the United States (USMF) and one in the United Kingdom (GBMF). The US entity sells goods to the UK entity. The US entity wants to record the intercompany sale and the UK entity wants to record the intercompany purchase. Both entities use the same chart of accounts but different accounting currencies (USD and GBP). The intercompany accounting relationship is set up with the 'Intercompany' option enabled. When the US entity creates and posts an intercompany sales order, what happens in the UK entity?

Hard
202

Your organization uses a posting definition in the Accounts payable module to control how vendor invoices are posted. A user reports that a specific invoice line for a fixed asset purchase is posting to an expense account instead of the fixed asset acquisition account. The vendor group has the correct summary account for the vendor balance, and the item is not stocked. Which configuration should you verify to correct the posting of the fixed asset line?

Hard
203

Refer to the exhibit.

Medium
204

When defining financial dimensions, what is the purpose of the 'Use values from' field in the Financial dimension setup?

Easy
205

A Contoso budget manager needs to register a new budget register entry that combines multiple ledger accounts and dimensions in one transaction. They must ensure the entry can be posted and tracked as a single document. Which configuration should they use?

Medium
206

Which TWO actions should you perform when setting up a new legal entity that requires a different fiscal calendar than existing entities? (Choose two)

Medium
207

Your company uses a centralized payment model. You need to configure the system to allow one legal entity to pay invoices on behalf of another. What is the correct way to handle the resulting intercompany balances?

Hard
208

A financial analyst needs to post a journal entry that includes a main account and a financial dimension value that is not currently valid for that account. The analyst receives an error stating the account and dimension combination is invalid. The dimension value exists and is active. Which configuration should be reviewed to allow the combination?

Medium
209

A Dynamics 365 Finance accounts payable manager needs to configure the system so that vendor invoices entered in the pending vendor invoice form can be posted only after a three-way matching check against the purchase order and product receipt. The matching must block posting when the net unit price variance exceeds 5 percent. What should the manager configure first?

Medium
210

Refer to the exhibit. You attempt to post a journal entry, but the system prevents it. How should you resolve this configuration issue to allow posting?

Hard
211

A company wants to reimburse employees for out-of-pocket expenses. The expense management module is configured. An employee submits an expense report that includes a $50 meal expense. The company policy allows a maximum of $40 per meal. Which feature should the expense manager use to enforce this limit?

Easy

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