Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Finance in 2025 release wave 2

Overview

As finance leaders scale to meet growing business complexity—spanning global entities, evolving regulations, and rising business performance demands—the pressure's on to do more than close the books. Today’s finance organizations must move faster, manage risk more proactively, and adapt dynamically.

In this release, we're investing in the future of global-scale finance and agentic operations. We will focus on deepening our multi-entity capabilities and accelerating period-end close with flexible hierarchies and continued agentic capabilities.

A new journal framework and accounting rules engine give you the flexibility to configure them to fit your specific organization or industry needs and process finance processes across legal entities. Support for stocked items with project, agentic bank reconciliation, and continued country coverage all improve global-scale operations.

Updates to Dynamics 365 Finance 2025 release wave 2

Investment areas

Business performance
The business performance suite of capabilities brings together analytics, planning, and insights as an extensible solution on a single platform to continuously plan, act, and analyze your financial and operational data. Features in business performance showcase the enhancements around business performance planning and business performance analytics.

Core financials
Our core financials investments focus on bringing extra enhancements to core financial capabilities. They enhance end-to-end business processes across ERP, increase automation, reporting, and analytics, and reduce financial close time.

Globalization Studio
To meet various tax compliance and local requirements (localizations), customers in over 210 countries and regions use our solution. We offer out-of-the-box localizations and continuous regulatory updates for multiple countries and regions, available in multiple languages. Our no-code/low-code Globalization Studio services automate complex tax scenarios, so partners and customers can easily extend localizations.

We're investing in expanding out-of-the-box country coverage, automating continuous regulatory updates, and reducing the manual efforts involved in managing taxes.

To follow our planned and released regulatory updates, see Search for country/region-specific regulatory updates.

For more information on Globalization Studio, see Globalization Studio documentation.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Dynamics 365 Finance below:

For application administrators

User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.

Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.

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