Powerful Not For Profit ERP Accounting Software By Sage Intacct
Not for Profit organisations (NFPs and NGO’s) have specific needs seldom thought about within commercial financial solutions and other accounting software providers. NFPs often face additional layers of financial complexity, especially when dealing with donors, grants, acquittals, and additional reporting requirements.
Sage Intacct offers core accounting capabilities suitable for NFPs of all sizes and complexity and meets the needs of many NFP sectors, including:
- NDIS (National Disability Scheme)
- Educational
- Human services
- Philanthropic
- Healthcare
- Faith-based
- Membership-based NFPs
Work with Progressive Business Technologies (PBT) as your Sage Intacct Not-For-Profit Partner
PBT, one of the leading partners for Sage Intacct Australia, has an in-depth understanding of Not For Profits Accounting requirements and an intimate understanding of how the ERP software was developed with these types of organisations mind.
Say Goodbye to Spreadsheets with Dedicated Not for Profit Accounting Software
Sage Intacct eliminates the need for multiple spreadsheets and manual reconciliations. It replaces those with a unique multi-dimensional accounting system that will reconcile transactions and statistics across various Entities, Locations, Departments, Grants, Donors, and more.
Sage for Non Profits - Centralised Control & Distributed Responsibility
Sage Intacct accounting software helps balance a not-for-profit’s unique need for centralised control and distributed responsibility. While allowing flexibility at the local level, the platform provides for the management of many dimensions, such as:
- Funds by grants
- Donors
- Programs
- Location
- …and many other dimensions
It also offers tools for budgeting by event, campaign, program, or funder. Any dimension can also manage budgets.
Multi-Entity, Multi-Divisional Reporting Non Profit Accounting Software
For NFP’s that faces the complexities of multiple entities, locations and divisions, Sage Intacct offers powerful tools to bring everything together in one platform.
All financials can simultaneously be posted into a single general ledger and new entities can inherit existing lists, definitions, and charts of accounts from the central office.
Sage Intacct can automate consolidation of all accounts from across multiple divisions, especially in financial reporting, inter-entity transactions, and statistical reporting.
NFP and Charity Accounting Software with Fund Accounting for Donor And Grant Management
Sage Intacct has specialised capabilities to streamline the financial management of donors and grants. This enables organisations to handle the financial processes, reporting, and analysis from within the accounting software. This eliminates the need to work with an additional platform or outside the system in Excel.
Sage Intacct fund accounting can create separate analysis for each source of funds, and specific reports can be made for each donor or grant.
Financial And Statistical Transactions - Sage for Charities & NFPS
The innovative general ledger account system provides a unique type of visibility, scalability, and flexibility. It allows users to view reports and dashboards across nearly any combination of drivers and metrics.
Sage Intacct accommodates statistical Charts of Accounts and journals, meaning critical non financial data can be captured and reported on. It can be mixed with financial data in reports to provide a holistic KPIS for the organisation.
Pre-Built Templates
Sage Intacct comes with multiple pre-built Not for Profit report templates. This allows users who may not fully understand the details of the accounting process to immerse themselves in relevant business data still quickly.
The software includes ready-to-use dashboards, graphs, charts and pre-configured calculations to compute KPIs.
Powerful Collaboration
Sage Intacct’s Collaboration module provides an innovative solution to make decisions as a team in real-time with a clear record of how and why decisions were made.
Intacct’s collaboration process allows you to see all messages related to a particular issue, transaction, budget, or other entity in one place, giving you all the information needed to find a resolution. Think live chat for your business software.
More about PBT for Not For Profits
Why choose PBT for my Not for Profit?
Having worked with many Not for Profit Organisations over the years, Progressive Business Technologies (PBT), have gained an understand of NFP commonalities and requirements. We understand the need to eliminate multiple spreadsheets and manual reconciliations and replaces those with unique multi-dimensional accounting systems that will reconcile transactions and statistics across, individual clients, carers, grants, donors, locations and more.
Not for profit organisations have specific needs and can face additional layers of complexity. Today’s not for profit’s require multi-dimension, multiple division reporting and analysis.
Through the introduction of the NDIS legislation, service providers have had to purchase client management software to ensure they are NDIS ready.
Many of these client management solutions provide great functionality for the service provision area with customer-focused rostering and client plans, however many of these solutions have fallen short in the provision of a strong financial systems.
Why do not for profit organisations need specialised financial software?
Not for profit organisations require specialized financial reporting and many still rely on manual processes or basic accounting software to manage their finances.
Board members must carefully consider expenses and how they align with the organization’s goals. An effective accounting system for a not for profit should include features for tracking Entities, Locations, Contributions, Donations, Grants, Programs and more.
Modern cloud-based accounting software like Sage Intacct can greatly streamline financial reporting and payments, ultimately allowing them to focus on their mission.
PBT can assist with implementation and data migration for your organization. Contact us to learn how we can help you transition to a cost-effective, modern accounting system.
How to implement a finance system for a not for profit organisation?
Following a structured Implementation methodology is key to successfully implementing a new finance \ ERP solution into a not for profit organisation.
The process should start should start with a solution design to assess the organization’s needs to understand the organisation’s financial reporting requirements and identify any specific challenges.
Not for profits have specific needs when it comes to financial reports and many are still using multiple programs, manual processes which should be understood.
Building a prototype of the solution (of which a copy becomes the production system) should follow, configuring the solution to suit the requirements of the not for profit organisation. Cleansing and importing data from the previous solution is also key to a successful implementation.
Once a prototype has been established, business process testing should be completed with the key users and in conjunction with your implementation partner. Generally there will be changes required after business process testing before commencing user training.
User training should be delivered per role and cover all the day-to-day activities of the staff. At the completion of User Training staff should continue to test and practice in the test system, completing user acceptance testing and further informing your partner of any issue found.
Go Live is the final stage, where up to date balances need to be transferred from your previous system across into the new, and reconciled by both parties. This generally happens module by module over a period of a fortnight, culminating in the not for profit organisation completing their first bank reconciliation in around the middle of their first month on the new system.
Sage Intacct not-for-profit accounting software has many benefits for an NFP, and PBT has a wealth of experience with implementation and data migration.
Speak to us today about how we can help your organisation move to a highly cost-effective, modern, cloud-based accounting software today.
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