Archive for July 2026
Purchase Returns in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: Four Return Types or One Smart Order-Round 12
The box is wrong. Damaged in transit, the wrong model, or twice what you ordered — either way, it’s going back to the vendor. Now your ERP has to undo a receipt, maybe undo an invoice, get the goods out of inventory at the right cost, and make sure the vendor’s credit actually shows up.…
Read MorePurchase Credit Memos in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: Typing the Credit vs. Copying the Invoice-Round 11
Sometimes the vendor owes you. A case of damaged goods, a billing mistake, a negotiated discount after the fact — and now there’s a credit memo in your inbox that needs to land in the books, and eventually against an invoice. We’ve spent three rounds paying vendors: entering the order, receiving it, and matching the…
Read MoreYear-End Close in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: Fourteen Steps or Two?-Round 7
Every accountant knows the feeling. It’s the first week of the new fiscal year, and the books need to be closed. In some offices, that means a checklist taped to the monitor, a “stay out of the system” email to the whole company, and a very long afternoon. Whether that describes your office depends a…
Read MoreFinancial Reporting in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: Two Programs or One?-Round 6
It’s the last day of the month. The books are closed, and now everyone wants the reports — the income statement, the balance sheet, the department P&Ls, the budget variance. Where do you go to build them? If you’re on Microsoft Dynamics GP, the answer is: a different program entirely. If you’re on Business Central,…
Read MorePurchase Orders in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: Same Order, Less Typing-Round 8
The General Ledger tour is over. With year-end close behind us, the Face-Off moves into Purchasing — the module where your team probably spends more clicks than anywhere else. Round 8 starts at the beginning: entering a purchase order. A purchase order is a promise: we’ll buy this, from you, at this price. Both Dynamics…
Read MoreReceiving Purchase Orders in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: A New Window or Two Fields?-Round 9
The truck just pulled up. Boxes are on the dock, the packing slip is in someone’s hand, and your inventory isn’t right until those goods are in the system. Yesterday we entered the purchase order — today, in Round 9 of the Functionality Face-Off, we receive it. Receiving sounds simple: tell the system what showed…
Read MoreInvoicing Purchase Orders in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: The Three-Way Match, Two Ways-Round 10
Ever wonder how you three way match in Dynamics BC? The goods arrived last week. Now the vendor’s invoice lands in the inbox, and accounts payable has one job: make sure you pay for what you ordered and actually received — no more, no less. Accountants call it the three-way match, and it’s where purchasing…
Read MoreAccount Segments in Dynamics GP vs. Dimensions in Business Central: Why Your Chart of Accounts Keeps Growing-Round 5
Quick question: how many accounts are in your chart of accounts? Let’s talk about GP account segments vs Business Central dimensions If you’re running Microsoft Dynamics GP, the honest answer might be “thousands — and we’re not sure what half of them are for.” That’s not bad bookkeeping. It’s just how GP was designed. Every…
Read MoreBank Reconciliation in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: Checkmarks vs. Copilot-Round 4
Nobody loves bank rec. It’s the chore that eats an afternoon at the start of every month — a bank statement on one screen, your ERP on the other, and a hunt for the one transaction that’s keeping you from balancing. But here’s the thing: how much of that afternoon you lose depends a lot…
Read MoreRecurring Journal Entries in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: Set It and (Almost) Forget It-Round 3
Rent. Insurance. Subscriptions. Monthly accruals. Every accounting team has a stack of journal entries that show up like clockwork, month after month. Typing them in from scratch every time is a waste of your day — and a great way to introduce typos. Both Microsoft Dynamics GP and Dynamics 365 Business Central know this. Both…
Read MoreBudgets in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: One Budget or Many?-Round 2
Budget season. For some finance teams, those two words mean weeks of spreadsheets, emailed versions with names like “FINAL_v7_REALLYFINAL.xlsx,” and a scramble to get numbers into the ERP system. Your ERP should make budgeting easier, not harder. So today, in part two of our Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: Functionality Face-Off series, we’re looking at…
Read MoreJournal Entries in Dynamics GP vs. Business Central: Which Is Easier?-Round 1
If you spend your day in the general ledger, journal entries are your bread and butter. They are also one of the first things you will notice when you move from Microsoft Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC). The good news? The basics feel familiar. The better news? BC removes a lot of…
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