Chapter 9. Exploring Financial Dimensions

One of the major objectives of an ERP implementation is to provide clear business insights that can provide support for the organization's top management in the decision-making process. This requires analyzing the numbers, understanding them clearly, and then being able to examine the same numbers from different perspectives. Hence, a detailed structure is required to decide how an organization wants to analyze their numbers.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Understanding the concept of financial dimensions

• Understanding the ledger account segmentation

• Posting types in Microsoft Dynamics AX

• Exploring dimension reporting