Business Central has hundreds of pre-built reports to cater for typical business needs, including trial balance, income statement, balances sheet, aged accounts payable/receivable, inventory valuation etc. It also has an array of reporting tools including customised home pages, KPI analysis by dimensions, personalised views and seamless Excel integration.  

For custom reporting requirements, Power BI is Microsoft’s dedicated data visualisation tool. It enables you to connect to all your data sources (not just Business Central) and display the data in a live, interactive and meaningful way.  

Yes. Business Central has workflow capabilities to enable approvals on documents and master data. There are standard workflows to handle common business tasks such as purchase order approvals, as well as flexible tools to customize them to your business processes. 

Also, Microsoft provides a dedicated workflow solution in Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow). It allows you to automate business tasks in an “if this, then that” model across all your business applications in a no-code/low-code manner. 

Yes. There are a number of 3rd party expense solutions that are built specifically for Business Central.

In Business Central, you can keep detailed records of your employees. You can register and maintain employee information such as employment contracts, confidential information, qualifications and employee contacts. You can also register and track employee absences. Beyond this, Microsoft offer more comprehensive HR capabilities by using Dynamics 365 Human Resources. 

Business Central doesn’t include a payroll system as standard but can integrate with many 3rd party payroll apps and solutions. Talk to us about your requirements! 

Yes. Business Central has standard accounting capabilities for month end reporting and accounts prep. This includes automatic depreciation calculation & posting and options for accruals and prepayments. There are a number of different journal types – recurring, and reversing being just two, that allow us to template and repeat calculations like month end accruals.  

In addition to this, you can automatically defer the recognition of expenses and revenues over a custom or pre-templated timeframe – for example recognizing an annual cost evenly over 12 months or taking 25% up front and deferring the remainder. 

There are 3 types of licensing: 

• Premium – Full access to all modules 
• Essential – Full access to all modules (excluding manufacturing and service management) 
• Team Member – Read-only access to all modules, with limited access to certain essential capabilities such as approvals and purchase requisitions.  

Read more on the Microsoft Licensing guide.  

Yes, it can. For example – a user with a Team Member (TM) license can raise a Purchase Quote and then this can then be approved by another user with a TM license. A full user can then convert the approve Purchase Quote into a Purchase Order and continue the process as normal. 

Yes, you can get significant discounts for NFP and educational usage. If you are eligible for these discounts, it’s likely you’ll have already been through the Microsoft registration for discount on Office 365 licenses. Please ask for the discounted license prices when you get in touch. 

Yes. Dual rights allow you deploy both on-premises and online versions of Business Central. Properly licensed users do not need additional client access licenses (CALs) to access on-premises instances.  

For further details, download the Business Central licensing guide.  

Microsoft releases major updates twice a year and minor updates monthly. Most new capabilities are made available in the major updates, with bug fixes and more urgent changes being released in the minor updates.  

Much like PC updates, Business Central updates are automatic and controlled by Microsoft. They’re scheduled out of business hours (with the ability to change if needed) and, from a user perspective, are seamless.  

Also like with PCs, on very rare occasions the update may cause conflicts where new code conflicts with 3rd party code. At Bam Boom Cloud we proactively manage the roll-out of the upgrades and rectify any issues as part of our support services. 

Due to the sheer reach of Microsoft’s products, they operate in a partner model. Meaning Microsoft develop the products, while Microsoft partners (such as TheDynamicsPeople) offer project, training and support services to get the most out of them.  

We offer different levels of support service each month, this includes raising support tickets with our helpdesk team and having a dedicated account manager to support you getting the most out of the Microsoft products. This support also includes upgrade management and consultant reviews.