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Articles for finance and operations teams running Dynamics 365 across Africa and globally: multi-country templates, IFRS, tax, eTIMS and role-based training.
Briefing · 8 min
September 2026: what changed on the programmes, and what we refused.
The first half-year briefing. Tax in configuration, e-invoicing inside posting, and a new country as a bank-file mapping. No market statistics.
Solution Architecture team · 23 Sep 2026
Payments · 7 min
A new country is a bank-file mapping, not a new X++ project.
Vendor and employee payments through one gateway, to any bank. A new country's format is a mapping in Azure. IBAN rules for 89 countries.
Solution Architecture team · 23 Sep 2026
Financial services · 7 min
The core system stays. The books become Dynamics 365.
An accounting hub for lenders and insurers: sub-ledgers post under rules, leases are data, and payments leave through one gateway.
Finance practice · 23 Sep 2026
Public sector · 8 min
Public-sector law belongs inside the ledger, not in a register beside it.
My Government 365 on Finance & Operations. South Africa ships first: bid committees, PPPFA and the Public Procurement Act on one toggle, supplier checks, and GRAP or Modified Cash Standard.
Solution Architecture team · 23 Sep 2026
Compliance · 5 min
Tax changes are inevitable. Your ERP configuration shouldn't be.
Separating tax logic from customisation so a rate or rule change is a configuration update, not a project.
Finance practice · 22 Sep 2026
Compliance · 7 min
IFRS reporting inside Dynamics 365: what a compliant chart of accounts actually needs.
Mapping local statutory books to IFRS without a shadow spreadsheet, and where Finance & Operations makes it easier than Business Central.
Finance practice · 15 Sep 2026
Strategy · 6 min
Multi-country deployments: one template, many statutory books.
How to design a single Dynamics 365 template that rolls out across borders without a re-implementation in every country.
Solution Architecture team · 3 Sep 2026
Compliance · 6 min
eTIMS inside the ledger: what changes when signing moves into posting.
Why bolt-on eTIMS tools create a reconciliation problem, and how in-process signing removes it.
Solution Architecture team · 2 Sep 2026
Data & AI · 7 min
Agentic ERP without the hype: three processes where an agent earns its keep.
Collections, reconciliation and order intake, with the guardrails a CFO should insist on.
Data & AI practice · 19 Aug 2026
Strategy · 6 min
Business Central or Finance & Operations? A decision framework for groups that will not stay in one country.
Entity count, integration load and regulatory reporting decide the platform. Headcount does not.
Solution Architecture team · 5 Aug 2026
Supply Chain · 6 min
Marketplace settlements are an accounting problem, not a logistics one.
What an order and fulfilment hub has to do so finance stops rebuilding settlements by hand.
Supply Chain practice · 22 Jul 2026
Non-Profit · 5 min
Funder reporting in one click: the data model that makes it possible.
Dimensions, grants and budgets, and where most NGO implementations get them wrong.
Non-Profit practice · 8 Jul 2026
Training · 4 min
Why role-based training beats module training every time.
A finance approver and a warehouse picker should never sit in the same session.
Training team · 24 Jun 2026Use your company email. Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo cannot request them. The request goes to insights@softwaredynamicsgroup.com, and we send the PDFs to you ourselves. The September 2026 briefing is on this page. Read it.