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When you are exporting your old accounting records and trying to bring them over to the new Corporate ERP application the final result could be probably estimated but the success could not be really guaranteed


Assuming that you are not dropping part of the old system functionality in the new one then mathematically it might be possible migrate everything.? However the budget might be outside of the feasibility border.? In this publication we would like to give you some highlights on such terminologies as master records, historical documents as well as data export, cleansing and importing techniques.? Also we would like to give you specific data export examples in the case of Great Plains, QuickBooks Cheap Derek Grant Hat , SAP Business One and Dynamics AX Axapta:


1.?Master records and Historical transactions.? In ERP terminology master records are such objects as customers, vendors, employees, addresses etc. Master files are typically required to be migrated from the old accounting to the new one.? Master records are used as references in such documents as invoices Cheap John Gibson Hat , purchase orders and this is why their import is typically safer as it doesn?t participate directly is such processes as transaction posting.? Historical documents are invoices, purchase orders, paychecks or similar which came through the process of initial entering, approval cycle and posting all the way through General Ledger.? During these processes these documents typically update the whole cluster of summary tables Cheap Jakob Silfverberg Hat , such as Customer Monthly Summaries for example.? As you may imagine historical records are difficult to migrate without reproducing all these historical processes.? Historical data conversion is typically going through multiple iterations or test migrations where in each new iteration you are removing the problems and inaccuracies identified in the previous step