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Welcome to my blog! My name is Jen Kuntz, I am a CPA (CGA) and my blog is about Microsoft Dynamics GP, Excel, Power BI as well as other random topics from time to time.

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  • Excel – where did my workbook go?

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    A #TipTuesday post about Excel and hiding workbooks. (continue >)

  • MVP Renewal for 2020/2021

    Today was a good day. It is Canada Day, which is a national holiday, and already a great day for us Canucks, but July 1st is also MVP renewal day for close to 3,000 Microsoft MVPs worldwide. I’m pleased to share that I was awarded for the 4th time today, within the Business Applications category… (continue >)

  • SmartList Export – Excel cannot open error

    Today’s #TipTuesday is one a client ran into a little while ago and is worth sharing how to find out what is causing the issue. The TL;DR version is a strange character that somehow was input into an invoice comment and it caused an issue when that record (with that field) was exported to Excel… (continue >)

  • Thunderbolt dock problem? Try this.

    This post describes issues I had with my Thunderbolt dock where various ports were not working (Ethernet, Audio, USB) and how I resolved it. (continue >)

  • Testing email functionality

    This is a #TipTuesday post about what to consider when testing email functionality in Dynamics GP, to avoid a dreaded scenario where some test documents accidentally get emailed to a real customer, vendor, or employee. (continue >)

  • Owning up to your mistakes

    It’s been a while since I wrote a non-technical post, so I thought I would share a situation that happened to me earlier this week and how I dealt with it. At the risk of coming across as a complete moron to whoever reads this, when many would simply never mention it again, I am… (continue >)

  • Fixed Assets GL Posting Flow Part 8

    This is the last post in an 8-part series on Fixed Assets in Dynamics GP. This post covers changing costs or LTD/YTD amortization on a card, transfers with GL account changes, and deleting a book or the asset entirely. (continue >)

  • Fixed Assets GL Posting Flow Part 7

    Today’s #TipTuesday is a continuation of my series on Fixed Asset transactions in Dynamics GP and what GL accounts get used where. Today is the second-last of the series, where I will walk through a catch-all set of scenarios around what kinds of asset changes impact the GL. Half of the scenarios are here, and… (continue >)

  • Fixed Assets GL Posting Flow Part 6

    Today’s #TipTuesday is a continuation of what happens during Retirement transactions in Dynamics GP. Today is the last of the “retirement” scenarios I plan on covering and it is proceeds (cash, non-cash), sale expenses and their impact on the resulting retirement journal entry. The previous posts so far are: Additions with & without YTD/LTD amortization… (continue >)

  • Fixed Assets GL Posting Flow Part 5

    Today’s #TipTuesday is a continuation of what happens during Retirement transactions in Dynamics GP. Today: different retirement types and the impact on which Gain/Loss account is chosen. The previous posts so far are: Additions with & without YTD/LTD amortization Depreciation/Amortization Retirements in the 1st year of ownership Retirements after the 1st year of ownership Setting… (continue >)

  • Fixed Assets GL Posting Flow Part 4

    Today’s #TipTuesday is a continuation of what happens during Retirement transactions in Dynamics GP. Today: retirements after the first year of ownership (in a year after the acquisition year). The previous posts so far are: Additions with & without YTD/LTD amortization Depreciation/Amortization Retirements in the 1st year of ownership Setting the stage In this post,… (continue >)

  • Fixed Assets GL Posting Flow Part 3

    Today’s #TipTuesday is a continuation of my Fixed Assets series around GL posting flow. This post will be the start of what happens during Retirement transactions in Dynamics GP. There are a lot of options around retirement transactions, although, in the end, most selections don’t impact the results much. I will be breaking this into… (continue >)

  • Fixed Assets GL Posting Flow Part 2

    Back in September, I started a series and honestly figured I would not have taken this long to get to “part 2”! What I’m going to do is make this part of my #TipTuesday series and try to get through it a little bit faster! Today’s post is about what happens during the Depreciation routine… (continue >)

  • Back-dating Fixed Asset Retirements

    Today’s #TipTuesday is about the message the user may receive when back-dating a Fixed Asset retirement in Dynamics GP. I completed a project recently where the client was catching up on some IFRS asset derecognition that, in some cases, had occurred in prior years by the time we got around to doing the retirement in… (continue >)

  • Checklinks “the keys record has been removed”

    Today’s #TipTuesday is about Checklinks, specifically about a message a user may get when running file maintenance against Sales > Receivables Open Transaction Files. Some general parts of this blog may apply to other errors in checklinks but I’ll focus on this one message for now to keep it simple. File Maintenance Error Message The… (continue >)

  • Excel Background Refresh & Pivot Tables

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    A post about Excel and the Enable Background Refresh setting as it relates to Pivot Tables. (continue >)

  • New Year’s Resolutions 2020

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    It’s time to look back on the year 2019 and the last 10 years. I won’t say “the last decade” lest the mansplainers get their shorts in a knot about it technically not being the end of the decade. 😄 10 years ago, I was 4 months into my own consulting business. In 2019, I… (continue >)

  • Top 10 Blog Posts from 2019

    This is a look back at what posts had the most views during 2019. It’s the 3rd year I’ve done this and it is always interesting what old posts continue to be relevant (or at least “hit” via search). The first year I did this, only 4 posts from that year made the top 10,… (continue >)

  • SmartList Export Options

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    A tip about using the Export Options feature in Dynamics GP to automate some of the Excel steps after exporting a SmartList. (continue >)

  • How to copy budgets

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    Today’s #TipTuesday comes courtesy of a question on the GPUG open forum about how to copy a budget in Dynamics GP. Method #1 – Export/Import The method described in one of the thread answers is exporting the budget to be copied and then importing it back in with a new Budget ID. Does it work?… (continue >)

  • Excel tip – is X in the list?

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    Today’s #TipTuesday is a detour from my recent SmartList tips for Dynamics GP, and I’m going back to Excel for this one. I have been working on a project recently where some data validation is needed to ensure that user-entered data on some forms is valid. I want to have some visual validation for Accounting… (continue >)

  • SmartList Tips – search

    Today’s #TipTuesday article is yet another SmartList tip. For the past few weeks, I have been focused on small aspects of SmartList since I love this tool so much! Today I’ll be talking about searching & filtering in SmartLists. Search basics There are some basics to search and some advanced stuff about search. To start… (continue >)

  • SmartList Tips – favorites

    A #TipTuesday post about working with favorites in SmartList. (continue >)

  • SmartList Tips – working with columns

    This #TipTuesday post is about working with columns in SmartLists. (continue >)

  • SmartList Tips – printing & exporting

    Today’s #TipTuesday is a continuation from last week, where I covered some of the basics around SmartLists: terminology, security, sorting & resizing columns, using the GoTo, and statuses. In this post, I plan to cover a few more things that I didn’t fit: more of the commands on the toolbar (Refresh, Stop, Print, Excel &… (continue >)