What's new and planned for Microsoft Copilot for Finance
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2024 through March 2025. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.
For a list of the previous wave's release plans, go to 2024 release wave 1 plan.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the date of release.
This check mark ( ) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.
Microsoft Excel experiences
Microsoft Copilot for Finance enables finance professionals to perform their tasks in Microsoft Excel.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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Use Agent-assisted reconciliation data prep and selection | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2025 | - |
Use Copilot extended reconciliation parametrization | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Dec 2024 | - |
Analyze variances in Excel with supplementary data sources | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2025 | - |
Collaborate and share out of variance analyses in Excel | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2025 | - |
Use Excel to analyze variances | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2025 | - |
You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on August 12, 2024, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
Description of Enabled for column values:
Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.