Business Central · Coming October 12, 2027
The Book on BC
Implement it. Upgrade it. Extend it. Use it every day.
The field manual for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, from a practitioner with 25 years of implementations, upgrades, and extensions behind him. Not a feature tour. The why behind the system, and what to do about it.
Why This Book
Microsoft Learn tells you what a feature does. This book tells you what to do with it.
Most Business Central writing is either a feature tour or a developer reference. This book sits in the middle. It explains how the system behaves, why it behaves that way, and what to do about it on a real project.
- The whole life of the system. Organized around what happens to Business Central over time, not around the menus.
- Opinionated. It makes recommendations. When the answer is “it depends,” it says what it depends on.
- Grounded in real projects. What went wrong, what fixed it, and the pattern to take away.
- Built for a system that changes twice a year. The lasting principles are kept apart from version-specific detail.
Who It’s For
Consultants and Implementers
Checklists, decision points, and the order of operations for a successful implementation.
Finance and Operations Teams
What will happen during your implementation, and the context behind what your partner asks you for.
Developers New to BC
Not a development handbook, but the principles and guides that will get you through your first extensions.
The People Who Keep It Running
What it takes to maintain a Business Central environment after go-live.
Written for Business Central online, with on-premises differences called out where they matter. Starts from the beginning and goes to intermediate depth.
What’s Inside
Four parts, one for each verb on the cover.
Part I
Implement
Getting from “we bought it” to “we run on it.”
Discovery that works, the chart of accounts and dimensions, posting groups, data migration, security, and go-live.
Part II
Upgrade
Keeping the system current without breaking it.
The update cadence, NAV to BC, moving from on-premises to the cloud, and testing an update.
Part III
Extend
Building on BC without fighting it.
The extension model, events and interfaces, working with posting, integrations, reports, and Copilot.
Part IV
Use
Running the business on it every day.
Journals and posting, quote to cash, purchase to pay, inventory costing, and month-end and year-end.
Plus the checklists you can use on a real project (go-live, update, extension review, and month-end) and a glossary of Business Central terms.
Coming October 12, 2027
Be There on Release Day
Follow along for chapter previews, release news, and the Business Central lessons that shaped the book.
David Rhue has spent 25 years with Business Central and the Navision system it grew from, both in internal IT and as a consultant, and has the battle scars to prove it. He writes The BC Dr., a blog for the people who live inside Business Central every day.
The Particulars
| Format | Ebook, Paperback |
| Publication Date | October 12, 2027 |
| Price | $49.99 ebook, $59.99 paperback |
| Covers | Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central online, with on-premises notes |
| Level | Beginner to intermediate |
| Written For | Consultants, developers, and finance and operations teams |
The field manual for Business Central.
The Book on BC. Coming October 12, 2027.