Tag: ERP
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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…
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Bill of materials, routing, production order costing, WIP accounting, standard cost variance analysis, and the Finance-owned configuration decisions that determine whether manufactured goods inventory is accurately valued and variance accounts tell a useful story. The Finance Scope in Manufacturing: What You Own Before Production Starts D365 F&O’s manufacturing module involves configuration owned by multiple functions…
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Purchase orders, vendor catalogs, item charges, receipt and invoice matching, blanket orders, and the procurement configuration decisions that determine whether your AP close is clean or chaotic. “Post 4 in this series covered the AP end of purchasing — vendor ledger, invoice posting, payment runs. This post is about what happens before the invoice arrives.…
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What AI-assisted features are actually live in the Finance modules, where they genuinely reduce work, where they’re still maturing, and how Finance teams should govern AI adoption in an environment where the output ends up in audited financial statements.
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Job cards, job tasks, WIP accounting, billing, and how BC connects project costing to the general ledger — for anyone who bills by the hour, manages fixed-fee engagements, or wants to know whether projects are profitable before the invoice goes out. What Business Central’s Jobs Module Actually Does BC’s Jobs module is project accounting built into the…
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Electronic Reporting for statutory and regulatory output, the Data Management Framework for structured data movement, and how the complete D365 F&O reporting stack fits together — from trial balance to regulatory filing to Power BI dashboard. The Reporting Landscape — Six Tools, Six Different Jobs D365 F&O doesn’t have one reporting tool. It has six…
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Budget models, planning worksheets, budget control configuration, encumbrance accounting, budget registers, and the design decisions that determine whether the budget is a reporting column or an actual operational control over spending. D365 F&O Budgeting — Two Distinct Capabilities D365 F&O offers two separate but complementary budget-related capabilities that Finance teams sometimes conflate. Understanding the distinction…
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BC’s native budget tool, how to enter and maintain budgets by account and dimension, building the budget vs. actual column that management actually uses, and the honest conversation about what BC does well — and when to reach for a dedicated planning tool instead. How BC’s Budget Feature Works BC’s native budget tool is straightforward:…
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Asset cards, depreciation books, acquisition posting, disposals, the asset register-to-GL reconciliation, and why the decisions made in FA setup determine whether your asset register and your balance sheet agree at year-end. The Fixed Asset Card — What Every Asset Needs Configured Every physical or intangible asset tracked in BC has a Fixed Asset Card — the master…
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The Cost Accounting module, cost objects, allocation hierarchies, overhead calculation, and how D365’s dedicated cost accounting layer produces management P&L reporting that the general ledger — even with dimensions — simply cannot deliver on its own. Why the GL Alone Isn’t Enough for Management Profitability Analysis The general ledger in D365 F&O — even with…