Financial Analyst · works with Business CentralBeta
Business Central management reporting, delivered as a finished monthly report
Sign in with your Microsoft work account, pick the environment and the company, and the Financial Analyst turns that company's general ledger into a management report draft every month, for your approval: profit and loss, a balance sheet, cash with a 13-week forecast, and a variance read that names what moved. It only ever sends read requests to Business Central.
Works — we are verifying it on our first customers' books. Tell us if anything looks off.
From $599/moFirst month free
What the monthly report contains
- Profit and loss, and a balance sheet, from the general ledger entries. Business Central's report APIs return display-formatted text, so both statements are built from the typed general ledger entries instead — which is also why every figure opens to the entries behind it.
- A clean closing month. Year-end closing entries are kept out of the profit and loss, so the month your fiscal year closes does not show the whole year's result reversed. The balance sheet keeps them, because moving the result into retained earnings is exactly what it should show.
- Cash, 13 weeks out. A forecast with its minimum balance and headroom.
- Your first global dimension. When the company has set up global dimensions — a department, a business group, whatever you use — each month's revenue and costs are split by the first one. A company with none gets the statements without the cut.
- Receivables and payables by counterparty. The balance each customer owes you and each vendor is owed at the month end.
- Variance against the prior month, with causes. Each line that moved is explained by the accounts that moved it and by how much.
The same monthly close also produces an investor report, a board deck as slides (PPTX) laid out from the report you approve, and an Excel workbook with live formulas.
What the Financial Analyst reads from Business Central
Your environments and companies, so you can pick one — and then only that company: its chart of accounts, its general ledger entries with their dimensions, its general ledger setup and company information, and its aged receivables and payables. On the first connection the analyst reads up to 24 months of history, so the first report already has a past to compare with.
The permission, plainly. Microsoft publishes one permission for apps that use the Business Central API, and no read-only version of it, so by name it is read-and-write. What it can reach is bounded by the Business Central permissions of the user who signs in: connect with a user who can only read, and the connection can only read. Either way Ataski sends read requests only.
More than one company? Each Business Central company you connect is a company of its own in the workspace. The Team plan holds three.
How to connect Business Central
- Start your free month, open the Financial Analyst's Data & settings and press Connect on the Business Central card.
- Press Sign in with Microsoft and use the work account you open Business Central with.
- Pick the environment — usually «Production» — and the company whose books should be read.
- The first load of that company's books starts at once, and your first report draft is prepared from it.
If your organisation lets only an administrator approve new apps, Microsoft says so at sign-in. The connect page then gives you a link to Microsoft's own approval page for exactly this permission: your Microsoft 365 administrator approves it once for the whole organisation, and you sign in as usual.
Disconnect deletes our sign-in. Microsoft keeps the record that you approved Ataski until you remove it at myapps.microsoft.com, or your administrator does under Enterprise applications.
What «Beta» means here
The Business Central reader is built from Microsoft's published API documentation and it works; no customer's Business Central company has been read by it yet, so the first customers' books are where it is being verified. Check your first report against a report you already trust before you rely on it.
Every permission the connection asks Business Central for
| Permission | What it is used for |
|---|---|
| https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/Financials.ReadWrite.All | Business Central's only permission for apps. Microsoft publishes no read-only version, so by name it covers reading and writing; it reaches only what your own Business Central user may do, and Ataski only sends read requests. |
| offline_access | Keeps the connection working between monthly runs without asking you to sign in again. Grants no data by itself. |
Checked before it reaches you or your board
- A second, independent AI reviewer reads every monthly narrative before release. When it disagrees with the analyst, the disagreement comes to you instead of being settled quietly.
- An AI explanation that cites a source outside your books is discarded, not published. If the month is not closed yet, the report says so and shows only the lines the books support.
- EBITDA is called EBITDA only when depreciation is read from the books; otherwise the line is named the operating result.
Your next monthly report, built from Business Central.