Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the role of finance professionals. This session explores how Business Central, Copilot, AI forecasting, intelligent agents, and Microsoft 365 work together to automate routine accounting tasks, improve decision-making, and free your team to focus on higher-value activities. We will demonstrate both today’s built-in AI capabilities and the next generation of accounting agents that can monitor, analyze, and act on your behalf.

· Improve forecasting and financial planning using AI-powered cash flow forecasting

· Predict late payments and improve collections with intelligent payment prediction

· Accelerate bank reconciliations using automation and Copilot-assisted matching

· Ask questions in natural language and receive insights directly from Business Central

· Explore new Business Central agents including Payables, Sales Order, and operational agents

· Learn how custom agents can monitor AR, exceptions, approvals, and financial risks

· Automate accounting workflows, approvals, follow-ups, and management reporting

· Use Copilot to create board presentations, analyze trends, and generate executive insights

Demo Focus

1. Cash Flow Forecasting

2. Payment Prediction

3. Bank Reconciliation Automation

4. Business Central Q&A / Natural Language Insights

5. Payables Agent

6. Sales Order Agent

7. Custom AR Collections Agent

8. Executive Oversight / Exception Monitoring Agent

9. Copilot creating a Board Presentation from Business Central data

10. Power BI financial dashboards with AI-generated commentary

Key takeaway: Modern accounting teams can move beyond data entry and manual reporting by using AI to forecast, reconcile, monitor, analyze, and communicate financial information faster than ever before. The future is not just Copilot answering questions, but intelligent agents actively helping run the finance department.