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MB-700 · Question #144

A company with multiple legal entities implements Dynamics 365 Finance. The company does not want to purchase additional licensing or incur development costs. The company's controller notes that vendo

The correct answer is B. Electronic reporting tool. The Electronic Reporting (ER) tool in Dynamics 365 Finance is a configuration-driven reporting framework that supports multi-company data access, requires no additional licensing, and does not require traditional development (X++ or SSRS). It can be configured to query vendor pay

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A company with multiple legal entities implements Dynamics 365 Finance. The company does not want to purchase additional licensing or incur development costs. The company's controller notes that vendors exist in multiple companies. The system does not apply and does not post payments to the correct company. The controller notes that a company-specific report exists for vendor payment journals. You must replace the single company-specific report with a global report that displays the vendor payment journal status across all companies in the organization for a single vendor. You must minimize development and creation of new reports. You need to identify a tool to create the report. What should you recommend?

Options

  • AFinancial Reporter
  • BElectronic reporting tool
  • CView
  • DSQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
  • EPower BI

How the community answered

(44 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    77% (34)
  • C
    11% (5)
  • D
    7% (3)
  • E
    2% (1)

Explanation

The Electronic Reporting (ER) tool in Dynamics 365 Finance is a configuration-driven reporting framework that supports multi-company data access, requires no additional licensing, and does not require traditional development (X++ or SSRS). It can be configured to query vendor payment journal data across legal entities and output structured reports. Financial Reporter (A) is designed for financial statement reporting (balance sheet, P&L), not operational journals. SSRS (D) requires developer effort. Power BI (E) may require additional licensing and infrastructure. Views (C) are database objects, not end-user report tools. ER best satisfies the constraints of no extra licensing, no development costs, and cross-company reporting.

Topics

#Dynamics 365 Finance#Electronic Reporting#Cross-company reporting#Reporting tools

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