Have you heard? Multidimensional Amalysis (MDA) is going away. Well, this is only PARTIALLY true.
For Dynamics GP Customers that already own MDA, they will be able to continue using it even with future releases and upgrades!
However, NEW CUSTOMERS to Dynamics GP, starting with Version 10, will NOT have access to MDA.  They will utilize Analytical Accounting.
If you would like the simplicity that MDA offers, we can DEFINITELY create something with eXtender to mimic the MDA functionality!
What in the world is MDA? In a nutshell, MDA gives the user the ability to post to GL accounts, but then to further categorize that posting.Â
For example, let’s say you have a GL account called Vehicle Expense (5100). Every time you post something to Vehicle Expense, you ALSO want to track for which specific vehicle in your fleet the expense was incurred. Now instead of adding more GL accounts (5100-001 for Vehicle 1, 5100-002 for Vehicle 2, etc..), you can set up an MDA Analysis Group called “Vehicles”, and affiliate that group with the GL 5100 account. Then, you can add all of your Vehicles as Analysis Codes under the Vehicle Analysis Group. When you post to the GL 5100 account, you will then have the opportunity to open another window, and allocate that expense to a Vehicle or Vehicles.
2 comments
Diana says:
January 13, 2011 at 9:13 pm (UTC -6 )
is it true you can’t use MDA with fixed or variable allocation accounts? Any work arounds?
Rhonda Halwey says:
January 17, 2011 at 12:40 pm (UTC -6 )
Only Posting Accounts can be used with MDA (not Allocation or Unit Accounts). Not much for a work-around to this. You’d probably have to develop something custom. Sorry.