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Data already sitting in Navision became a $700K cost-saving program. No new software, just a question nobody had asked yet. Here’s how it came together.

This is the part of the series for the organizations that did not get to start clean. Maybe the implementation happened before anyone read an article like this. Maybe the chart was inherited from a predecessor system and no one had the time or the political capital to challenge it. Maybe the design conversations happened,…

Picture the scene. An organization has just completed a Business Central implementation. The go-live went reasonably well. Transactions are posting. The close is running. Leadership is excited about the analytics possibilities, and the IT team has stood up a Power BI environment connected to the Business Central data. Six months later, the Power BI dashboards…

Most implementations ask what reports they need on Day 1. Almost none ask what reports they will need in Year 3. Both questions should be answered before a single account is created. There is a step that belongs at the very beginning of every Business Central implementation. It happens before the Chart of Accounts design…

The most powerful reporting lever in Business Central is not the Chart of Accounts. Most organizations never fully use it. There is a question that does not get asked often enough during Business Central design sessions, and it is the one that separates charts that age well from charts that become anchors. The question is:…

Accountant-friendly and report-friendly are not the same. In Business Central, that distinction matters more than most teams realize. In almost every Business Central implementation, a familiar conversation happens between discovery workshops and the first design review. It almost always starts the same way. The controller presents a clean, organized draft Chart of Accounts. The groupings…