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How Business Central Empowers CFOs
Posted on: August 27, 2025 | By: Page Wildridge | Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
CFO’s are expected to go beyond finances to play a central role in driving growth for their businesses. To make these changes within companies, CFOs depend on data. Finance leaders who embrace data-driven approaches are able to deliver insights quickly and make smarter decisions. Among economic uncertainty, it is essential for CFOs to manage costs, measure performance, and forecast with confidence. In this blog, we will cover how Business Central helps CFOs do this daily.
One Platform & Complete Financial Visibility
Microsoft 365 Business Central is a powerful ally for finance leaders, as the platform is designed to centralize your data and make it easy to track performance. By unifying reporting, analysis, and day-to-day operations into one system, Business Central helps CFOs transform raw data into actionable insights.
Analytics Tools for Every Financial Need
A major challenge for CFOs is finding the right tool for each analytics scenario. Business Central addresses this through a variety of tools that can serve different levels of analysis and reporting needs. For example, if you require quick reports that are easy to generate, Power BI finance reports provide interactive dashboards that represent different KPIs, while no-code financial reporting simplifies the creation of statements tailored to each business.
To create more dynamic and complex reports, ad-hoc analysis within Business Central makes it easy to filter and pivot data, and Excel integration ensures that finance professionals can continue working in the tool they know best. All of these options draw from the same data source, ensuring consistency and accuracy across the organization.
Real Time Financial Insights
Power BI offers more than 70 reports across finance, sales, purchasing, and inventory. These reports are available within both the platform, and on Business Central’s mobile application. As an added benefit, all your metrics can be tracked and tied to alerts in Microsoft Teams, so finance leaders can be instantly alerted when metrics reach set thresholds.
AI within Power BI Reports
With Copilot within Power BI, CFOs can generate quick reports. Additionally, you can ask the Chatbox specific questions in your natural language to gain insights. For example, ask Copilot about your net income from last quarter, or to summarize overall financial performance over a period of time. These innovations not only save time but also enable finance leaders to shift their focus from collecting data to interpreting it and guiding the business forward.
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