What's New: Enhanced Financial Analytics (2026 release wave 1)

Overview

The session covers finance reporting changes aimed at better reports, faster reports and in-client analysis. Excel layout deferral reports for GL, purchase and sales, first released in fall 2025 without subtotals, now ship with subtotals included. Trial balance and trial balance previous year reports have been performance tuned and are placed under a feature management flag, so users can roll back to the old behavior if numbers look wrong.

Analysis views can now ship out of the box, starting with the GL registered and fixed asset ledgers pages. These are in 28.X and not in the April release. Users can also describe a desired analysis and paste it into Copilot Analysis Assist to get additional reports or analyses. New fixed asset demo data covers acquisitions and depreciations.

Key points

Excel layout deferral reports for GL, purchase and sales now include subtotals out of the box; the fall 2025 version had none.
Trial balance and trial balance previous year reports are performance tuned and sit under a feature management flag.
The feature management flag allows rollback to the old behavior, at least for this release wave and possibly the next, if numbers look wrong.
Out-of-box analysis views are announced for the GL registered and fixed asset ledgers pages; they ship in 28.X, not in the April release.
Copilot Analysis Assist accepts a pasted description of the desired analysis and generates additional reports or analyses, including ones that need specific account filtering.
New fixed asset demo data covers acquisitions and depreciations transactions so fixed asset reports can be demonstrated out of the box.

Features

Feature	Status	At	Evidence
Deferral Reports with Subtotals	generally available	0:43	“we’re also shipping in Business Central out of the box the deferral reports with subtotals included” (1:21)
Performance-Tuned Trial Balance Reports	status not stated	1:31
Out-of-Box Analysis Views for Finance	announced	2:31	“These are shipped in 20 eight dot X, so they’re not in the April release yet, but they will come very soon.” (2:57)
Copilot Analysis Assist for Finance Reports	status not stated	3:20
Enhanced Demo Data for Fixed Assets	status not stated	3:57

AL objects mentioned

As heard in the captions. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.

page “GL registered” at 2:42
page “fixed asset ledgers” at 2:42

Not found in BC28-30: page “GL registered”, page “fixed asset ledgers”.

Quotes

0:19 “We invested in this for three things: better reports, faster reports, and in-client analysis of of things related to finance”
1:21 “we’re also shipping in Business Central out of the box the deferral reports with subtotals included”
2:16 “You can always go back to the old behavior, at least for this release wave and maybe the next one”
2:57 “are shipped in 20 eight dot x so they’re not in the april release yet but they will come very soon”
3:34 “Copy the description of what to do into uh Copilot analysis assist, and and it will give you these additional uh reports or analysis”
4:08 “we’re adding new demo data in fixed assets for transactions data for acquisitions and depreciations”

Disclaimers in the video

2:03 preview: we have put these new uh the new tuned reports under a feature management flag for now. In case something uh you you you find that they’re not showing the right numbers, we try to test as much as we can
2:57 coming-later: They are shipped in 20 eight {dot} X, so they’re not in the April release yet, but they will come very soon