Design an accounting structure to suit your business or create unique structures for each company in your organization. The system provides extensive flexibility, with structures up to 66 characters long and up to 10 segments of any length. Manage accounts and transactions using user-defined accounting structures, definable fiscal periods, prior-year adjustments, batch posting, cross-module auditing, and more. Easily create default budget templates complete with accounts, descriptions, and default amounts in Microsoft Excel™, and then export and import budgets to and from Excel through an interactive wizard. Improve advanced financial analysis capabilities by modifying existing General Ledger financial reports or creating new reports, with unit-account information, comparative analysis, and complete graphical support. Easily create comprehensive reports consolidating information from multiple companies, provisional transactions, or define new reporting relationships with FRx® Desktop. Find and analyze the exact information you need through General Ledger's seamless integration with other Great Plains applications such as Receivables or Payables Management, Invoicing, and Crystal Reports®.

AP processing can be distributed to individual properties, with purchase orders, invoices, and other documents entered into corporate systems remotely. This allows local control of payments, while taking advantage of vendor discounts due to corporate buying power. Other AP features include:

• Immediate information. Find answers instantly to accounts payable and vendor activity questions with views of unposted, posted, and historical transactions, plus complete vendor, credit, payment, and other information.
  
• Extensive drill-down. Cross-module drill-down capabilities give you the ability to locate the exact details you need.
  
• Comprehensive vendor information. Streamline your vendor information with vendor categories for consistent record maintenance and comprehensive data, including addresses, shipping methods, default purchase accounts, and user-defined information.
  
• Installment management. Automate your vendor installment payments by creating schedules, calculating interest, amortizing amounts, and forecasting the impact of variable interest rates, payment amounts, and installment changes.
  
• Expenditure control. Manage expenditures with full control over check runs and tracking of after-the-fact payments that use manual check entries, credit cards, or cash for transactions.
  
• Automatic posting. Automate posting for each vendor to designated General Ledger accounts for recurring transactions, or streamline distribution for vendors without specified purchase accounts.
  
• Complete payables reporting. Create a comprehensive suite of payable reports that can be sorted by calendar or fiscal year with on-screen display and search, or combine with Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains® applications such as Report Writer or Crystal Reports® for greater reporting flexibility.

OpenCourse provides integration to POS and reservation systems to handle billed charges for rounds, food/beverage, merchandise, etc. While billing can be managed centrally, payments can be processed directly at the courses. Courses then enter payments to corporate systems remotely. You can also:

• View unposted, posted, and historical transactions, plus complete customer, period sales, yearly sales, payment history, and receivables summary information.
  
• Utilize user-defined fields to track the customer information you need to improve sales and customer service, including: ship to, bill to, and statement to addresses; and credit limit, payment terms, and account history.
  
• Automate your customer installment payments by creating schedules, calculating interest, amortizing amounts, and forecasting the impact of variable interest rates, payment amounts, and installment changes.
  
• Maintain full control over the receivables process with automated lockbox processing, customer billing defaults, NSF tracking, multi-currency support, and the ability to fully define customer statement cycles.
  
• Analyze your sales performance with receivables tracking for each salesperson or sales territory, including commissions, commissioned sales, non-commissioned sales, and cost of sales for the year-to-date.
  
• Create a comprehensive suite of reports that can be sorted by calendar or fiscal year with on-screen display and search, or combine with Microsoft Business Solutions–Great Plains® applications such as Report Writer or Crystal Reports® for greater reporting flexibility and power.