[Noah Moseley]

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Hi Ritu. You can handle your financial reporting in F&O using F&O’s Financial Reporter which is really just Management Reporter after they dropped the name. It’s the same Rows/Columns/Trees. It’s easy to use and built for accountants (from the FRx days). There are some features that were dropped when Microsoft went to F&O like no longer being able to link to data in Excel, but most of the reporting features you will need are there. If you want to talk about other options, I’ve been handling financial reporting applications for 20+ years now. Comment here or email me at noah.moseley@msxgroup.com. Have a great day!

[Noah Moseley]

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Hi Ritu.

Did you ever replace F&O’s Financial Reporter with Defacto?

[andrew alwin]

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Yes, some teams are moving from Management Reporter to tools like Defacto, especially with Fabric in the mix.

That said, it depends on your goal:

If you want financial reporting inside D365 → Financial Reporter (built-in) is still solid

If you need advanced reporting + external data + analytics → Defacto / Fabric approach makes sense

What I’ve seen:

Defacto works well when you already use Fabric/Power BI heavily

It gives more flexibility, but adds architecture complexity

So:

Simple finance reporting → stay native

Cross-system analytics / data model → Defacto + Fabric

Key question:

Are you replacing reporting, or building a full data platform? That decides the direction