Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations learning path: everything to study, topic by topic

Cloud-hosted and sandbox environment types in Lifecycle Services (LCS); the three-tier architecture (AOS, database, client); deployment topologies; LCS project configuration, Business Process Modeler (BPM), and Issue Search

Legal entity as the primary organizational unit in D365 F&O; creating and configuring legal entities, company accounts, and the relationship between legal entity and company in the system

Organization hierarchy types and purposes in D365 F&O: retail, centralized purchasing, security, reporting; assignment of legal entities, operating units, and departments to hierarchy trees with effective dates

Number sequence framework in D365 F&O: continuous vs non-continuous sequences, scope levels (company, shared, legal entity), segments, pre-allocation, and the number sequence wizard for automatic setup

D365 F&O workflow engine: workflow types, workflow elements (tasks, approvals, automated tasks), assignment types, escalation paths, conditional decisions, and workflow versioning and activation

User personalization capabilities in D365 F&O: adding/hiding fields and FastTabs, creating saved views, publishing shared views, personalizations import/export, and the relationship between personalization and security

Global address book (GAB) as the shared repository for parties (persons and organizations) across D365 F&O; address books, party records, contact information, and address purposes; relationship to vendors, customers, and workers

Document management framework: document types, document handling, attachment rules; print management setup for business documents (invoices, confirmations); conditional settings, email destinations, and Document Routing Agent (DRA)

Shared chart of accounts in D365 F&O; main account types (balance sheet, profit & loss, reporting, total); main account categories; posting validation; account aliases and default financial dimensions on main accounts

Account structures that define allowed financial dimension combinations for main accounts; advanced rules that attach additional dimensions beyond the base structure; allowed values and wildcards; activation of structures on the ledger

User-defined financial dimensions (cost center, department, project) and entity-backed dimensions (business unit, legal entity); dimension sets for reporting; default dimension templates; dimension focus

Ledger setup for a legal entity: accounting currency, reporting currency, currency exchange rate types, exchange rate providers, triangulation currency, and currency rounding rules

Fiscal calendar creation and period types (open, on hold, closed); assigning fiscal calendars to ledgers; period close authorizations by module and user role; year-end close and new fiscal year generation

General ledger journal types (daily, allocation, periodic, budget), journal name configuration (voucher series, approval workflow, fixed offsets), journal posting controls, and journal templates for recurring entries

Posting layer (current, operations, tax) controls in D365 F&O; voucher templates for percentage-based or fixed-amount splits; accrual schemes; reversing entries and automatic reverse posting settings

Period-end close process in D365 F&O: the Financial period close workspace, closing task configuration, closing schedules, cross-company task assignment, and status tracking of closing activities

Vendor master data in D365 F&O: vendor accounts, vendor groups, posting profiles, payment terms, method of payment, vendor bank accounts, and one-time vendor configuration

Vendor invoice processing: pending invoices, invoice journal, purchase order invoices; two-way, three-way, and four-way invoice matching (quantity, price, charges); matching policy and matching tolerances; invoice approval workflow

Vendor and customer payment journals in D365 F&O; manual settlement and automatic settlement; settlement priority; cash discount handling on settlement; payment proposal generation and payment reversal

Customer master data in D365 F&O: customer accounts, customer groups, AR posting profiles, credit limits, collections parameters, and customer bank accounts for direct debit mandates

Free text invoices in D365 F&O: header and lines, revenue account selection, financial dimensions on invoice lines, recurring invoices; project invoices generated from project accounting and their posting to AR

Collections workspace and collections agent assignment; aging snapshots and aging period definitions; collection letters; credit management holds, blocking rules, and credit limit enforcement on sales orders

Terms of payment configuration (due date calculation methods, day of month, net days); cash discount codes (percentage, cutoff day); linking terms to vendor/customer master; cash discount posting accounts

Bank account setup in D365 F&O: bank groups, bank accounts, IBAN/SWIFT; bank statement import (ISO 20022, BAI2, MT940); bank reconciliation worksheet including auto-matching rules and manual matching

Basic budgeting vs budget planning in D365 F&O; budget models and sub-models; budget control configuration: budget funds available calculation, budget cycle time spans, over-budget options (warning, error, override)

Budget register entries as the mechanism to record approved budget amounts; budget entry types (original, revision, transfer, carry-forward); workflow approval for budget entries; budget transfer rules

Fixed asset module in D365 F&O: fixed asset groups, value models (asset books), posting profiles for fixed assets, acquisition types, and derived books for parallel tax accounting

Depreciation profiles in D365 F&O: straight-line, reducing balance, sum of digits, and factor methods; depreciation run proposals; fixed asset disposal via sale or scrap and the resulting gain/loss accounting

Cost accounting module in D365 F&O: cost accounting ledger, cost element dimensions, cost object dimensions, statistical dimensions, cost accounting policies (overhead calculation, cost distribution, cost allocation)

Ledger allocation rules in D365 F&O: source criteria, destination criteria, allocation basis (fixed percentage, equally, by basis amount); allocation journals and processing of allocation proposals

Intercompany accounting setup in D365 F&O: intercompany relationships, centralized payments (AP/AR), intercompany elimination journals, and the posting of due-to/due-from intercompany balances

Complete sales tax configuration in D365 F&O: tax authorities and settlement periods, sales tax codes (rate, base amount method), sales tax groups (vendor/customer level), item sales tax groups (product level), and ledger posting groups

Sales tax calculation and posting on AP invoices, AR invoices, and general journals; conditional tax; use tax; tax exemptions; sales tax inquiry and sales tax settlement and payment process

AP and AR posting profiles in D365 F&O: summary account, arrival account, prepayment account per posting profile; relationship between customer/vendor group and posting profile; fixed asset posting profiles

Financial consolidations in D365 F&O: online consolidation vs import consolidation; consolidation company setup; elimination rules and elimination journals; minority interest; translation rules for foreign subsidiaries

Foreign currency revaluation for G/L, AP, and AR in D365 F&O: exchange rate types for revaluation, unrealized gain/loss accounts, revaluation preview and posting, and reversal of revaluation at period end

Open transaction settlement in D365 F&O: manual and automatic settlement of invoices against payments; realized exchange rate gain/loss on settlement; settlement priority and cross-company settlement

Financial reporting in D365 F&O using Management Reporter (Financial reporting): row definitions, column definitions, reporting tree definitions, and report definitions; publishing reports; currency translation in reports

Role-based security in D365 F&O: security roles, duties, privileges, and permissions; role assignment to users; process cycle security hierarchy; record-level security (RLS) and data security policies

Segregation of duties (SOD) framework in D365 F&O: conflict sets, conflict rules between duties; SOD evaluation and violation reporting; unresolved conflict handling and SOD override with justification

Data entities in D365 F&O as the abstraction layer for data integration; entity categories (transactional, master, reference, parameter); Data Management workspace overview; target data formats and field mapping

Data Management Framework import and export data projects in D365 F&O: project configuration, source data formats, staging tables, data validation, error handling, and recurring integrations via recurring data jobs

Batch processing framework in D365 F&O: batch job creation, batch groups, batch server assignment, recurrence scheduling, task dependencies within a batch job, batch job history, and alerts on batch completion/failure

Integration between D365 F&O and the Power Platform: dual-write for real-time data synchronization with Dataverse, Power Apps and Power Automate connections, virtual entities in Dataverse exposing D365 F&O data

Electronic Reporting (ER) framework in D365 F&O: data models, model mappings, and format configurations; ER designer workspace; importing ER configurations from the Global Repository (LCS); running ER formats for regulatory documents