Publications featuring Microsoft Dynamics GP
Updated: August 29, 2008
As a member of the Academic Alliance you receive software and services directly from Microsoft that enable you to integrate software into your curriculum. Another way to bring technology into the classroom is by using publications that feature Microsoft Dynamics GP (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions−Great Plains) software as the system example.
Many of you have used publications by Armond Dalton and South-Western Thomson in the past. Now, Microsoft is pleased to announce the 3rd edition of Armond Dalton's Computerized Accounting practice set as well as several new publications coming soon.
Microsoft asked the authors and publishers for descriptions of these projects, each based on Microsoft Dynamics GP. For more information, review the following textbook descriptions.
Computerized Accounting Using Microsoft Business Solutions−Great Plains
Authors: Alvin A. Arens and D. Dewey Ward
Publisher: Armond Dalton Publishers, Inc.
Page count: Instructions and assignments (300 pages), reference (200 pages)
Available: Mid-year 2006
ISBN: 0-912503-24-6
Formerly titled: Computerized Accounting Using Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics
Web site: Armond Dalton
The materials in Computerized Accounting Using Microsoft Business Solutions−Great Plains are typically used in the first information systems course. But the materials are relevant for any course in which the instructor wants students to learn and understand accounting software used by mid-size businesses. Major changes to the 3rd edition include:
| • | Microsoft Business Solutions−Great Plains has been renamed Microsoft Dynamics GP. There are changes in the menus and other aspects of the software, but there are no major changes that impact student learning. |
| • | The software included with the materials is now an education version. The operating characteristics are identical to the commercial version, but the education version is easier for students to load. Another unique feature of the education version is that students using the software in a computer lab setting can unload their data after a work session, save their work to a portable medium, and then later load their data on to a different computer. This feature helps reduce the frequency of students sharing each other's work. |
| • | This revision focuses more on using the software to solve business problems. Additional problem solving material has been added that asks students to obtain business information from the system. |
| • | A new data set has been added with many thousands of records. The problem solving material uses the new data set extensively. |
