From the Dynamics AX blogs: Intercompany Expense Reporting; Easy web services consumption; Connecting new Windows apps to AX; Retail EFT Configuration

A selection of the latest insight from the Microsoft Dynamics AX blogs:

• Intercompany Expense Reporting and Management in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012;
• Consuming a Web Service in AX 2012 is Easy;
• Microsoft Dynamics AX Windows Apps: Connecting to AX
• AX 2012 R2 for Retail - Configuring the EFT Service in the Retail Hardware Profile with Dynamics Online Payment Services

Intercompany Expense Reporting and Management in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

On the SBS Group's blog, Sandeep Chaudhury says that multinational professional services firms always have employees working out of different office locations and it's common to share workers between companies to execute project/non-project tasks. And in those cases, it's also pretty common that when employees of one legal entity work on the project/non-project tasks of other legal entities, they might incur expenses that need to be charged to the project or ledger of the borrowing entity.

Until AX 2012 R2, there was not a good option in AX to handle the accounting of intercompany expenses scenarios in an efficient manner. With the introduction of intercompany expense reporting feature in AX 2012 R2, it becomes a lot simplified for the users to manage the accounting of such scenarios.

In his post, Chaudhury takes a look at this new functionality in Dynamics AX 2012 R2 to help you understand how it works. You can find out here.

Consuming a Web Service in AX 2012 is Easy

On his Yet Another AX Blog, Tommy Skaue says there might be a little threshold before you know how to consume ...