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AR and AP
revaluation
for unrealized
gains/losses
This document describes the
defaulting logic for financial dimension
values when accounting for unrealized
gains/losses in cumulative update 7 for
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2.
White paper
April 2015
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AR and AP revaluation for unrealized gains/losses
Axapta 2.5
In Axapta 2.5, the default financial dimension values for both the unrealized gain/loss and AP/AR main accounts was
taken only from the AP/AR ledger accounts of the original invoice. This functionality supported the capability to
reconcile the subledgers of AR and AP to the general ledger, when including the financial dimension values. This is
shown in the following example.
Invoices accounting entry
Expense Department100
100.00 DR
100.00 CR
5.00 DR
5.00 CR
Axapta 3.0
In Axapta 3.0, customers requested support for the unrealized gain/loss to follow the profit and loss (P&L) accounts.
This was necessary so that customers could have better insight into the true cost or revenue of purchases and sales,
because the unrealized gain/loss on the P&L would reflect the same financial dimension values as the original
invoices costs and revenue. Customers could also include this information on various costing reports.
To meet this requirement, we added a new feature for the revaluation process that changed the defaulting behavior.
The default financial dimension values were now taken from the expense/revenue ledger account of the original
invoice. Unfortunately, this defaulting behavior was used for both the unrealized gain/loss and AP/AR main accounts,
as shown in the following example.
100.00 DR
100.00 CR
5.00 DR
5.00 CR
As soon as this feature was released, bugs were logged, because customers could not reconcile the subledgers of AR
and AP to the general ledger for the AR/AP ledger accounts when the financial dimension value was included.
Therefore, the functionality was immediately changed back to the Axapta 2.5 functionality.
However, because of this change, customer requirements for Axapta 3.0 were no longer supported, which prompted
customers to request that the functionality from Axapta 3.0 be added back to Microsoft Dynamics AX.
100.00 DR
100.00 CR
5.00 DR
5.00 CR
In addition, the revaluation process is now consistent with the settlement process. Customers expect that default
financial dimension values will be taken in the same manner for the cash discount and the realized gain/loss that are
created during the settlement of a payment and invoice.
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