Most companies use about 30% of what their financial system can actually do. The other 70% was paid for, installed, and never configured. That gap is where month-end close stretches to a week and a half, where reconciliation happens by hand, and where reports get rebuilt in Excel because nobody set up the ones already sitting in Dynamics GP.
Start by finding what you are not using
Before changing anything, look at where your team’s time actually goes. The pattern is consistent: manual tasks that the system was built to automate. Reconciliation done by hand. AP data entered twice because the integrations were never set up. Reports rebuilt outside GP every month.
We have taken a client from 100 hours a month on a single task down to 20 — not by adding software, but by configuring what was already there.
Automate the work that repeats
The highest-return targets in a GP environment are usually the same four: accounts payable, reconciliation, reporting, and month-end close. Electronic reconciliation, workflow automation, and custom SSRS reporting remove the repeated manual steps rather than speeding them up.
On one engagement, scheduled integrations from an expense management system cut AP data entry by 95%. Same system. Better configuration.
Connect the systems around GP
Your accounting system rarely works alone. Bill.com, payroll platforms, HR systems, expense management and warehouse tools all hold data that ends up in your general ledger. When those connections do not exist, someone re-keys numbers from one screen into another, and reports stop matching.
Optimizing now makes any future migration easier
Microsoft’s end-of-life for Dynamics GP means no new feature updates after December 2029, with security patches stopping in April 2031. GP does not stop working on those dates, and Argus has committed to supporting it through 2036.
The practical argument for optimizing now is that it pays twice. You get a system that works better today, and if you do migrate to Business Central later, you carry a clean configuration into the new platform instead of years of accumulated workarounds.
Where to begin
Start with an honest look at what you are running, what you are not using, and what the manual workarounds are costing you. That is exactly what our Free Assessment covers — a $1,500 value, at no cost and with no migration pitch attached.