Business Central for your international financial management

Why an ERP solution is essential for international operations

As markets globalize, more and more businesses are expanding their operations across borders. While this growth presents significant opportunities, it also complicates financial management. Each country enforces its own accounting, tax, and legal standards. Currencies fluctuate, languages vary, and internal IT systems often struggle to keep pace. The result? Finance departments are forced to juggle disparate tools, numerous Excel spreadsheets, and time-consuming manual processes—just to maintain compliance and data consistency.

In this context, a modern ERP system becomes indispensable. It centralizes data, standardizes financial processes, and ensures regulatory compliance in every operating country.

The goal: to enhance reliability, responsiveness, and visibility, while enabling informed decision-making.

Business Central: An ERP designed for international finance

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a cloud-based ERP solution tailored to support growing businesses—particularly those with a multi-country presence. Its flexible architecture and advanced capabilities make it a powerful asset for global financial management.

Multi-currency management with real-time exchange rates

With Business Central, each transaction can be recorded and analyzed in the local currency, then automatically converted into a reporting currency using continuously updated exchange rates. This enables seamless tracking of global financial performance with no manual intervention.

Local tax and accounting compliance

Business Central supports tax compliance in over 50 countries. It automates VAT calculations, report generation, integration with tax portals, and electronic invoicing (Factur-X, PEPPOL, etc.). The solution also complies with IFRS and GAAP standards, with configurable settings for each legal entity.

Multilingual support and localization

Available in more than 45 languages, Business Central features a localized user interface and country-specific document templates (invoices, purchase orders, etc.). It adapts to local date, number, currency formats, and national chart of accounts.

Intercompany financial consolidation

Business Central streamlines financial consolidation across multiple entities by harmonizing currencies, accounting rules, and reporting standards. Currency translation differences are automatically detected and integrated into consolidated reports.

Tangible benefits for international enterprises

Adopting Business Central allows international groups, mid-sized enterprises, and multi-site SMBs to professionalize their global financial management.

Notable benefits include:

• Centralized, reliable data

All entities operate within a single integrated system, eliminating duplicate entries, errors, and redundant processes. Data is consolidated automatically and accessible in real time to key decision-makers.

• Faster period closing and financial reporting

With built-in accounting automation and standardized reporting, teams save valuable time. Intelligent reconciliation features, powered by Copilot, also help reduce monthly, quarterly, and annual closing times.

• Compliance and risk reduction

With localized tax and accounting rules embedded, Business Central minimizes the risk of errors or non-compliance. This protects the organization during audits and regulatory inspections.

• Simplified multi-country financial analysis

Finance leaders can track KPIs across subsidiaries or consolidated entities using Power BI dashboards. They gain both a high-level and granular view of financial performance, with the ability to drill down into variances and anomalies.

• Improved cash flow forecasting

By combining sales history, customer payments, purchase forecasts, and vendor due dates, Business Central provides accurate cash flow projections. Alerts can be configured to flag deviations or liquidity risks.

Business Central: a scalable and interconnected platform

Business Central extends beyond finance—it's a comprehensive business management solution that covers:

• Accounting
• Sales
• Purchasing
• Project management
• Supply chain management

This broad scope is a key advantage for seamless and consistent international operations.

Native integration with Microsoft 365

The ERP integrates seamlessly with everyday tools like Outlook, Excel, Word, and Teams. For instance, users can send an invoice or access a customer record directly from their inbox.

Task automation with Power Platform

Using Power Automate and Power Apps, organizations can design custom workflows to:

1. Approve expenses
2. Send notifications
3. Automate critical business processes

This increases team agility and reduces manual intervention.

Copilot: Built-in AI intelligence

Business Central features Copilot, an intelligent assistant that helps users to:

• Predict payment delays
• Generate financial reports
• Suggest account matching
• Translate business documents for foreign markets

A cloud solution accessible anywhere

Accessible via browser, tablet, and mobile, Business Central enables finance teams across multiple countries to collaborate efficiently, wherever they are.

In a constantly evolving global environment, businesses need a reliable, compliant, and scalable solution to manage their finances. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central delivers precisely that—an ERP solution tailored to the realities of international financial management.