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MB-310 syllabus, skills measured, and exam topics

The MB-310 exam measures Implement financial management, Implement accounts receivable, credit, collections, and subscription billing, and Implement and manage accounts payable and expenses. Use this page to review the current official syllabus, major domains, and source links before exam day.

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Skills measured by domain

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Domain Weight
Implement financial management 35–40%
Implement accounts receivable, credit, collections, and subscription billing 15–20%
Implement and manage accounts payable and expenses 10–15%
Manage budgeting 10–15%
Manage fixed assets 10–15%

Detailed outline

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Implement financial management (35–40%)

  • Design and configure financial dimensions
  • Design and configure the chart of accounts and main accounts
  • Configure main account categories, ledger account aliases, and balance control accounts
  • Configure legal entity overrides for financial dimensions and main accounts
  • Configure and manage account structures and advanced rules
  • Design and configure financial tags
  • Configure derived dimensions and financial dimension default templates
  • Configure currency exchange types and rates
  • Configure a currency revaluation posting profile
  • Configure accounting and reporting currencies
  • Configure ledger calendar and fiscal calendar
  • Configure posting layers for ledger transactions

Implement accounts receivable, credit, collections, and subscription billing (15–20%)

  • Configure customers and customer groups, including configuring shared customers
  • Configure and process free text invoices, including recurring free text invoices
  • Process sales order invoices and credit memos, including prepayments
  • Configure customer payment methods
  • Configure accounts receivable charges and apply changes to an invoice
  • Configure customer posting profiles
  • Process customer payments
  • Perform accounts receivable foreign currency revaluation
  • Configure billing classification
  • Configure bank accounts for customers
  • Process intercompany invoices
  • Configure credit management processes

Implement and manage accounts payable and expenses (10–15%)

  • Configure invoice validation policies and invoice matching setup
  • Configure vendor groups, vendors, and vendor posting profiles, including configuring shared vendors
  • Process invoices and credit memos, with and without associated purchase orders, including prepayments
  • Configure vendor payment methods
  • Configure accounts payable charges, and apply changes to an invoice
  • Configure vendor bank accounts
  • Perform accounts payable foreign currency revaluation
  • Process the vendor invoice journal
  • Configure and process recurring vendor invoices
  • Process and generate vendor payments, centralized payments, and prepayments
  • Process intercompany vendor invoices
  • Configure expense management including categories, per diem options, mileage expenses, intercompany expenses, and personal expenses

Manage budgeting (10–15%)

  • Configure budgeting components, including budget models, codes, allocation terms, and transfer rules
  • Create and manage budget register entries
  • Compare budgeted values with actual values
  • Configure budget controls including budget parameters, budget fund availability options, budget control rules and groups, and over-budget permissions
  • Validate budget control on transactions
  • Create and manage budget plans, including scenarios and allocations
  • Configure budget planning process, including organization hierarchy

Manage fixed assets (10–15%)

  • Create and manage fixed asset groups and other fixed asset attributes
  • Configure fixed asset posting profiles
  • Configure fixed asset books, including derived books
  • Configure depreciation profiles
  • Create and manage fixed assets
  • Configure mapping for fixed asset groups and books
  • Process fixed asset disposal (sales) by using free text invoices
  • Process fixed asset acquisitions by using purchase orders, journals, inventory journals, and projects
  • Create fixed asset budgets and transfer the budgets to the budgeting module
  • Process fixed asset depreciation, including multi-company
  • Process fixed asset split, reclassification, transfer, disposals and other transactions by using the fixed asset journal

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Updates to the exam

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  • Most questions cover features that are general availability (GA). The exam may contain questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.

Audience profile

  • As a candidate for this exam, you analyze business requirements and translate them into fully realized business processes and solutions that implement industry-recommended practices during implementation and ongoing support. You have a foundational understanding of accounting principles and financial operations as they relate to:
  • Core tasks in Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Supply chain management operations
  • Service-based operations
  • As a candidate for this exam, you specialize in one or more feature sets of Dynamics 365 Finance including:
  • General ledger
  • Cash and bank management
  • Tax
  • Accounts receivable
  • Credit and collections