Category: General
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Let’s talk Copilot – What is actually live in D365 Business Central, what is genuinely useful for Finance teams, where current capabilities require careful governance, and the practitioner’s honest read of BC’s AI feature set today versus where the marketing suggests it is.
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Connecting Business Central to Power BI, the BC connector and its trade-offs, which questions belong in native BC reporting vs. a dedicated BI layer, building dashboards Finance and Operations can actually use, and the data freshness conversation every team needs to have before the first dashboard goes live. The BC Reporting Landscape — Four Tools,…
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The three-currency architecture, exchange rate types and where each applies, foreign currency revaluation and what it actually posts, realized versus unrealized gain and loss, the period-close currency controls Finance must own, and what breaks when the rate setup doesn’t match the accounting intent. The Three-Currency Architecture — What D365 Tracks on Every Transaction Every financial…
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Bill of materials, production orders, routings and capacity, costing methods for manufactured items, variance analysis, and the GL entries that happen when you build something instead of just buying it. What BC’s Manufacturing Module Covers BC’s Manufacturing module (available in BC Premium) handles discrete manufacturing — the process of building finished goods from component materials…
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Everything this blog has covered, distilled into what Finance most needs to hear in the first week of a BC implementation—from the perspective of someone who has seen every mistake in this series made by smart, capable Finance teams who were given the wrong information or not given enough information at the right moment. Dear…
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How BC’s intercompany module automates reciprocal transactions between related entities, the setup sequence Finance must complete before the first intercompany transaction posts, the intercompany reconciliation and elimination process Finance must run before consolidating, and the five intercompany accounting failures that keep Finance teams reconciling related-party balances manually every close when BC was designed to handle…
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Directed put-away and pick, license plate tracking, wave and work management, location directives, the Finance implications of a WMS-enabled warehouse, and the reconciliation controls Finance must own when the warehouse runs on directed work rather than manual transactions. Basic vs. Advanced WMS — The Decision That Changes Everything D365 F&O supports two warehouse management approaches,…
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The Subscription Billing module, contract revenue schedules, ASC 606 / IFRS 15 mechanics, deferred revenue, the GL flow from contract inception through recognition, and the configuration decisions that produce an auditable revenue schedule — or require Finance to maintain a parallel spreadsheet for the next three years. The ASC 606 / IFRS 15 Framework —…
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Expense categories, per diem, expense policies, the full GL flow from report submission to ledger posting, project-coded expenses, corporate card integration, and the approval and audit controls that keep T&E from becoming the line item internal audit always finds something in. The Expense Management Structure — What Finance Owns at Setup The D365 F&O Expense…
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The sales tax engine, tax groups and item tax groups, the intersection model, VAT for multi-country implementations, withholding tax, tax-exempt scenarios, and the configuration mistakes that produce financial statement misstatements that survive undetected until a tax authority asks questions. The D365 F&O Tax Engine — How It Decides What Rate to Apply D365 F&O determines…