Chapter 11

Accounting for Your Business with Business Central

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Getting a bird’s-eye view of Dynamics 365 Business Central

check Understanding the difference between the Essentials and Premium editions

check Setting up the books, chart of accounts, and bank accounts

check Generating quotes, orders, and credit memos

check Maintaining your customers, vendors, and inventory items

From humble beginnings, in Denmark in 1985, the seed of what is now Microsoft Business Central was sown. A Danish company called PC&C (short for Personal Computing & Consulting) released its first accounting software. Branded as PCPlus, it had only basic accounting features and could be used by only one user at a time. The PC revolution was under way, and literally hundreds of little accounting applications sprung up everywhere. PCPlus was eventually improved and rebranded as Navision, which was a client/server application that could be used by more than one person at the same time. (Imagine that.) From Denmark, Navision ...

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