• Publish date: August 31, 2021

  • Last update: December 31, 2021

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English, Vietnamese, Chinese

By utilising Infor SunSystems, managing your creditor/payable accounts has never been easier. Through this course, you'll gain a comprehensive understanding of the tools available to you, allowing you to effortlessly create and maintain suppliers, enter AP transactions, make payments, allocate transactions, and run inquiries and reports.

Who should take this course?

Whether you're new to SunSystems or an experienced Accounts Payable accountant, our comprehensive course will deepen your knowledge of the Financial Accounts Payable process. With hands-on instruction, you'll gain the practical skills necessary to easily navigate SunSystems. Plus, if you're looking to refresh your understanding and learn some new tricks, this course is perfect for you. Join us and gain valuable insights and skills to take your AP game to the next level.

About GEN-4- Infor SunSystems v6.4 Financials Accounts Payable

Managing Accounts

Managing creditor/payable accounts is a crucial aspect of running a business, but it can be a challenging task. Accurate record-keeping and communication with creditors are essential to ensuring timely payment and preventing any potential issues.With Infor SunSystems, the management of creditor/payable accounts can be streamlined, making it easier to track and report transactions.

Infor SunSystems

Enrol in our GEN-4 course to learn how SunSystems' Financial Accounts Payable function works in detail and take your accounting skills to the next level.

You Will Learn

Experience the benefits firsthand rather than taking our word for it. 

In this course, you will learn…

This GEN-4 course is divided into 7 chapters, each consisting of step-by-step videos, quizzes to test your knowledge and hands-on practical exercises. This allows you to better understand the theory and practice the topic you have just learned.
  • Chapter 1 – Welcome

  • Chapter 2 – Foundation

    This chapter delves into the fundamentals, from logging in and out of the system to resetting your password and other nifty tricks.

  • Chapter 3 – Adding and Maintaining Suppliers

    There are two parts to consider for any Supplier, one is the supplier record, and the other is the Creditor account in the Financials ledger that is linked to this Supplier. In this chapter, you will learn how to create and maintain Suppliers.

  • Chapter 4 – Accounts Payable Transactions

    When it comes to entering transactions into SunSystems, there's more than one way to get the job done. You can either do it manually using the LEN Ledger Entry function or let Infor Q&A handle the task automatically. In this chapter, we'll dive into the Accounts Payable entry process, exploring both methods of entry.

  • Chapter 5 – Payment Processing

    In this chapter, you will learn how to generate a payment run and get invoices paid using the Generate Payments paid function.

  • Chapter 6 – Account Allocations and Matching Transactions

    In this chapter, you will learn to master the Account Allocations function and use it to split, withhold, and force a payment as well as match and reconcile payments to invoices.

  • Chapter 7 – Financial Inquiries

    In this lesson, you will learn 6 pre-defined inquiries: Account Inquiry, Account Listing, Journal Inquiry, Journal Listing, Held Journal Listing, and Creditor Ageing Report, all of which empower you to access the most pertinent data at your fingertips.

Why take this course?

By enrolling in this course, you will gain comprehensive knowledge of the intricacies of processing and managing Accounts Payable in SunSystems.

  • In SunSystems, accurate supplier information is indirectly linked to an associated creditor/payable account that holds all the financial postings for the supplier.

  • Mastering the creation and maintenance of supplier details in SunSystems, which fall under the category of master data, is crucial.

  • Once the master data is in place, processing the transactional data can be done in several ways, both manually and automatically, with SunSystems.

  • The ultimate goal of maintaining Accounts Payable is to ensure prompt payment to suppliers.Thankfully, SunSystems offers automated payment processing for this purpose.

  • As an AP accountant, if you need to inquire about a specific creditor account's posted journals or transactions, the Financial Inquiries chapter within this course provides all the necessary information.

Courses to take after completing GEN-4

Courses about Financial Management:

  • GEN-3 Infor SunSystems v6.4 Financials GL

Courses about Purchasing Management:

  • GEN-9 Infor SunSystems Order Fulfillment - Requisitioning

  • GEN-10 Infor SunSystems Order Fulfillment - Purchasing

Courses about Infor Q&A:

To explore more about this powerful query and analysis tool that helps you pull data out of SunSystems and import data into SunSystems:

  • IQA-1 Infor Q&A 11 Basic

  • IQA-2 Infor Q&A 11 Advanced

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

  • 2

    Foundation

    • Introduction

    • Login to SunSystems

    • Logout to SunSystems

    • Change Password

    • Change Business Unit

    • Home page and Navigation

    • Learning Check

  • 3

    Adding / Maintaining Suppliers

    • Chapter Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Creditor Account Codes Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Create a New Account Code

    • Amend an Account Code

    • Hands-on: Create and Amend an Account Code

    • Hands-on: Create and Amend an Account Code, with instructions

    • Supplier Address Introduction

    • Create a New Supplier Address

    • Amend a Supplier Address code

    • Hands-on: Create and Amend a Supplier Address Code

    • Hands-on: Create and Amend a Supplier Address Code, with instructions

    • Suppliers Introduction

    • Create a New Supplier Record

    • Amend a Supplier record

    • Hands-on: Create and Amend a Supplier Record

    • Hands-on: Create and Amend a Supplier Record, with instructions

    • Supplier Bank Details

    • Create a Supplier Bank Detail

    • Amend a Supplier Bank Detail

    • Hands-on: Create and Amend a Supplier Bank Detail

    • Hands-on: Create and Amend a Supplier Bank Detail, with instructions

    • Learning Check

  • 4

    AP Transactions

    • Chapter Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Manual Entry Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Create and Post a Journal

    • Hands-on: Create and Post a Journal

    • Hands-on: Create and Post a Journal, with instructions

    • Import AP Journals via Q&A Introduction

    • Import AP journals via Infor Q&A Template

    • Hands-on: Import AP Journals via Infor Q&A Template

    • Hands-on: Import AP Journals via Infor Q&A Template, with instructions

    • Import Journals from the Procurement Systems via Transfer Desk Introduction

    • Importing from the procurement system via Transfer Profiles

    • Hands-on: Importing from the procurement system via Transfer Profiles

    • Hands-on: Importing from the procurement system via Transfer Profiles, with instructions

    • Learning Check

  • 5

    Payment processing

  • 6

    Account allocations and matching transactions

    • Chapter Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Splitting an invoice

    • Withholding an invoice

    • Forcing payments

    • Matching a payment with an invoice

    • Hands-on: Split, Withhold, Force and Match Payments

    • Hands-on: Split, Withhold, Force and Match Payments, with instructions

    • Learning Check

  • 7

    Financial Inquiries

    • Chapter Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Account Inquiry

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Hands-on: Account Inquiry

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Hands-on: Account Inquiry, with instructions

    • Journal Inquiry

    • Hands-on: Journal Inquiry

    • Hands-on: Journal Inquiry, with instructions

    • Account listing

    • Journal listing

    • Journal Held listing

    • Hands-on: Account Listing, Journal Listing, Held Journal Listing

    • Hands-on: Account Listing, Journal Listing, Held Journal Listing, with instructions

    • Run Account Listing and Journal Listing using Report Manager

    • Hands-on: Run Account Listing and Journal Listing using Report Manager

    • Hands-on: Run Account Listing and Journal Listing using Report Manager, with instructions

    • Creditor Ageing Report

    • Hands-on: Creditor Ageing Report

    • Hands-on: Creditor Ageing Report, with instructions

    • Learning Check

  • 8

    Summary & Next Steps

    • What happens next?

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