Question 40
After resolving this Dynamics 365 Finance case: A new vendor invoice is booked to the wrong accounts payable control account because the vendor group has an incorrect posting profile. What preventive control belongs in the operating procedure?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Reconcile vendor group posting profiles against the financial statements before activation. This prevents recurrence of the identified mechanism: Vendor posting profiles map operational vendor liabilities to general ledger accounts. Validate the control by checking: A test vendor invoice credits the correct AP control account and appears as an open vendor balance.
Incorrect Answers
Review duplicates across manual and electronic AP intake channels. That safeguard is aimed at a different risk: The same vendor invoice arrives twice with different PDF filenames but the same vendor invoice number. It does not most directly prevent recurrence of: Vendor posting profiles map operational vendor liabilities to general ledger accounts.
Check legal-entity field scope before bulk vendor updates. That safeguard is aimed at a different risk: A vendor is shared as a party across several entities, but one subsidiary's payment terms are accidentally overwritten globally. It does not most directly prevent recurrence of: Vendor posting profiles map operational vendor liabilities to general ledger accounts.
Require source invoice and reason codes on vendor credit notes. That safeguard is aimed at a different risk: A vendor credit memo is approved for a returned service charge, but the accountant enters it as an additional debit invoice. It does not most directly prevent recurrence of: Vendor posting profiles map operational vendor liabilities to general ledger accounts.