What’s New: Financial Reporting (for Report Authors) (2025 release wave 1)
Financial reporting changes for report authors in Business Central 2025 release wave 1: internal descriptions, intro and closing paragraphs, negative amount format, Excel layouts, where used action, visible double underline, month-to-date columns, and new row and column definition documentation.
- Introduction to new features
- Accessing and opening financial reporting
- Report definition editing - titles, descriptions, and formats
- Copy, export and import of report definitions
- Row definitions and the where used action
- Row definition options and documentation
- Column definitions and month-to-date feature
Overview
The video walks report authors through what changed in financial reporting in the 2025 release wave 1. It covers report definition editing (internal description, intro and closing paragraphs, negative amount format), Excel layouts, and copy, export and import of report definitions, which the video notes came from the last wave.
It then covers row definitions (internal description, where used action, double underline option, new documentation page) and column definitions (month-to-date column type alongside year-to-date, and documentation).
Key points
- Report definitions have an internal description field for documenting the definition for future reference.
- The report definition list now shows a display title (caption) instead of description, because it is really the title of the report.
- Authors can edit intro and closing paragraphs that show when users run the report.
- Negative amounts can be shown with parentheses or a minus sign; the change is reflected in the PDF version.
- Excel layouts can be defined for financial reports, with one chosen as the default for users to consume.
- Copy, export and import of report definitions was a menu added in the previous wave.
- Row and column definitions can be documented with an internal description.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| Internal description for report definitions | status not stated, demoed | 0:31 |
| Intro and closing paragraphs for reports | status not stated, demoed | 1:01 |
| Negative amount format option | status not stated, demoed | 1:42 |
| Excel layouts for financial reports | status not stated | 1:53 |
| Copy, export and import report definitions | status not stated, demoed | 2:21 |
| Internal description for row definitions | status not stated, demoed | 3:03 |
| Where used action for row and column definitions | status not stated, demoed | 3:18 |
| Double underline option for rows | status not stated, demoed | 4:16 |
| Enhanced documentation for row definitions | status not stated, demoed | 5:01 |
| Month-to-date column type | status not stated, demoed | 6:15 |
| Documentation for column definitions | status not stated, demoed | 6:29 |
Quotes
- 0:05 “Welcome to what’s new and financial reporting for authors in uh the 2025 release wave one for Business Central.”
- 1:14 “You can edit the introductory and closing paragraphs.”
- 1:53 “there’s also a new thing where we have support for Excel layouts.”
- 3:18 “there’s also uh something um a new thing here a new action called where used.”
- 4:16 “the double underline option is now not hidden anymore.”
- 6:15 “but now as a new thing in this wave we also added the monthto date.”