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Investigations on Business Central, worked end to end

How finance questions actually get answered on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: dimensions and Analysis Views, month close, accounts payable coding, and what happens when Claude is pointed at governed ledger data. Each post runs on Ember & Oud, an invented Dubai restaurant group with a realistic ledger, so the mechanics are real and the books are nobody's. Customer engagements live under case studies.

Reconciliation

Every brand matched to the cent. The totals were 292,808.81 apart.

Two people answered the same diligence question from the same ledger, one in Lens and one in Business Central, and agreed on all six brands to the dirham. Why the totals still disagreed is a lesson in dimensions, global slots and Analysis Views.

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Investigate and MCP

The best month on record, and two rows that said otherwise

A wall of green, every number true, and a 453.5 point swing on a row that is not a brand. Four questions later, two in Investigate and two in Claude on the MCP server, the problem has an address and a price, and Claude qualifies its own number.

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