In this chapter, we saw the tools that can help companies in the task of predicting and anticipating financial events. You learned to create new budgets using different sources of information. You can manually introduce budgeted amounts, copy it from real general ledger entries with an adjustment factor, or import it from Excel. You also learned how to predict cash needs by analyzing several sources of information, such as liquid funds, receivables and payables, outstanding orders, and budgets.

So far, we have come across sales and purchases, bank account management, and different accounting processes. In Dynamics NAV, everything leads to accounting, but most of the operations inside the financial management area can be done with little accountancy knowledge. In the next chapter, we will learn the setup options that allow this to happen.