Helping Hand Questions for MB-700

Box 1: Power Apps app

Customers who sign up for add-on Jamaica excursions bring friends who have not signed up ahead of time. The sales representatives record the customer information on paper, take payment, and then enter the information into the system later. The information is frequently inaccurate and creates discrepancies.

Box 2: Common Data Model

Dynamics 365 common data model (CDM) is designed to simplify the data integration and management across business processes and applications. Microsoft introduced CDM as an integral part PowerApps offering.

The good news is that Dynamics 365 CDM enables apps to easily integrate and share data even without custom and extensive integration.

Note: In Jamaica, employees use SoftwareC, a homegrown application based on spreadsheets. Local sales representatives use pen and paper in the field.

New customers in Jamaica must be reviewed and approved due to frequent customer data discrepancies. The sales representatives in the field will enter information that must be routed to validate against existing data.

Box 1: Consolidation company

Eliminations can be reported in multiple ways:

* A separate company can be created and used to manually determine and post elimination transactions. This company can be used in the consolidation process or in financial reporting.

* Elimination rules can be set up in the system.

* The accounts and financial dimensions that are used to determine intercompany activity can be filtered on a row definition or column definition in Financial reporting, and full drill-down capabilities can be used.

Box 2: Financial reporting

There are multiple options for consolidating data:

* Financial reporting – This option enables consolidation of transactions and balances, and can be generated at any time. Multiple levels of hierarchies can be created, and multiple reporting currencies can be viewed.

* Consolidate online – This option consolidates daily balances by the selected accounts and dimensions, and stores them in a consolidation company.

* Consolidate with import – This option imports balances into a consolidation company.

Export company balances

Note: The CEO is considering the acquisition of additional companies in the same countries as the current companies. The consolidation structure may change within the first 90 days of go-live. Margie’s does not want to finalize the consolidation structure for a hard-close at month’s end until this has been finalized.

AOT deployable package – A deployable package that is generated from application metadata and source code. This deployable package is created in a development or build environment.

Note: Margie’s Travel offers consumers a loyalty program. Consumers can earn points per dollar spent across all in countries in which Margie’s operates. The loyalty program is currently managed by using a spreadsheet.

The infrastructure team must move the code for the loyalty program to test environment.

Margie’s Travel learns that the loyalty program across multiple countries is not a standard industry process and is not a standard feature in Dynamics 365 Finance.

Margie’s created a second company based in Jamaica, followed by the acquisition of a third company in the United Kingdom (UK).

All three countries must use Dynamics 365 Finance.

Margie’s Travel wants to enable customer self-service in the future for customers based in the US and UK.