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Articles for South African finance and operations teams: payroll, PFMA and PPPFA, IFRS, funder reporting and role-based training.
Migration · 18 min
SAP to Dynamics 365: What Every SAP User Must Know Before the 2027 Deadline
What the end of SAP ECC mainstream maintenance means, five reasons organisations move to Dynamics 365, when to stay on SAP, how modules and data map, and how to plan backwards from the deadline.
Solution Architecture team · 29 Oct 2026
Financial Services · 17 min
Dynamics 365 integration use cases for banking and insurance: 28 patterns from the ledger to the customer.
A holistic map of Microsoft Dynamics 365 integration use cases for banks, lenders, insurers and brokers: finance, customers, operations, data, AI and control.
Finance practice · 29 Oct 2026
Migration · 16 min
Migrating from Odoo to Microsoft Dynamics 365: when it is time, and how to do it well.
Seven signs it is time, four reasons that are not, how Odoo apps map to Dynamics 365, how the data moves, the order of work and the mistakes to avoid. Written for finance and IT leaders running or weighing Odoo.
Solution Architecture team · 29 Oct 2026
Compliance · 9 min
IFRS 18 in Dynamics 365 Finance: how the Financial Services Accounting Hub (AccountingFlow 365) speeds up compliant reporting.
IFRS 18 from 2027: how to design it in Dynamics 365 Finance, and how the Financial Services Accounting Hub helps African lenders and insurers.
Finance practice · 17 Oct 2026
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.
GovFlow 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 2026Payroll on Dynamics 365.
Does Dynamics 365 include payroll? The honest answer for South Africa and Southern Africa: what Business Central and Finance & Operations include, the options, and how PayrollFlow 365 adds payroll.
Read the guide → Payroll guide · South Africa and Southern Africa Payroll for Dynamics 365Payroll for Dynamics 365 in South Africa and Southern Africa: PayrollFlow 365 runs payroll inside Business Central and Finance & Operations and posts every pay run to the ledger by dimension.
Read the guide → Payroll guide · South Africa Dynamics 365 payroll for South AfricaDynamics 365 payroll for South Africa: PAYE, UIF (Unemployment Insurance Fund), SDL (Skills Development Levy) and more, calculated in PayrollFlow 365 and posted to the ledger by dimension.
Read the guide → Payroll guide · Namibia Dynamics 365 payroll for NamibiaDynamics 365 payroll for Namibia: PAYE, Social Security Commission (SSC) contributions, Employee tax certificates and more, calculated in PayrollFlow 365 and posted to the ledger by dimension.
Read the guide → Payroll guide · Botswana Dynamics 365 payroll for BotswanaDynamics 365 payroll for Botswana: PAYE (income tax withheld from employees), Pension and medical scheme deductions, Returns to the revenue authority and more, calculated in PayrollFlow 365 and posted to the ledger by dimension.
Read the guide → Payroll guide · Zambia Dynamics 365 payroll for ZambiaDynamics 365 payroll for Zambia: PAYE, NAPSA contributions, NHIMA contributions and more, calculated in PayrollFlow 365 and posted to the ledger by dimension.
Read the guide → Payroll guide · Zimbabwe Dynamics 365 payroll for ZimbabweDynamics 365 payroll for Zimbabwe: PAYE, NSSA contributions, AIDS levy and more, calculated in PayrollFlow 365 and posted to the ledger by dimension.
Read the guide → Payroll guide · Mozambique Dynamics 365 payroll for MozambiqueDynamics 365 payroll for Mozambique: Personal income tax (IRPS), INSS social security contributions, Local-language payslips and more, calculated in PayrollFlow 365 and posted to the ledger by dimension.
Read the guide →The papers behind the work.
One template. Many statutory books.
Request the PDF → Business Central or Finance & OperationsThe platform decision for a group that will not stay in one country.
Request the PDF → Financial services accounting hubThe core system stays. The books become Dynamics 365.
Request the PDF → Funder reportingOne template. Many funder books.
Request the PDF → Government 365Public-sector law, inside the ledger.
Request the PDF → Marketplace settlementsThe order was fine. The accounting was not.
Request the PDF → IFRS 18 reportingThe statement changes. The ledger does not.
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