Secrets to Gaining Visibility into Nonprofit Financials
Flexible reporting functionality is a top criterion for nonprofits wanting to replace an underperforming financial management solution. The right financial management and reporting solution can be a critical driver of efficiency and visibility; the wrong solution can be a critical roadblock to strategic improvement. Read this ebook to learn how finance leaders can leverage the…
5 Telltale Signs Your Nonprofit has Outgrown QuickBooks
Many small nonprofits manage accounting operations with small business software such as Intuit® QuickBooks®. QuickBooks is a great bookkeeping solution for small nonprofits, but as your organization grows in size and complexity, you’ll start to feel some growing pains. You might be able to limp along with QuickBooks, but you’d be missing out on the…
Ebook: How to Speed Up Your Nonprofit Audit with Audit-Ready Financials
A guide to achieving an expedient and cost-effective audit In this era of the 24- hour news cycle and instant social media amplification of any scandal, nonprofit organizations have to be more cautious than ever about their stewardship. Funders have seen and heard too many stories of fraud, malfeasance, and poor financial leadership within the…
Ebook: Benefits of Cloud-Based Nonprofit Accounting Software
Why nonprofits are moving financial management to the cloud At a minimum, a modern accounting system should automate and streamline core financial management functions such as Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Financial Close. But you can hardly fuel your growth and need for accountability and transparency by simply automating the minimum. Nonprofits have accounting, tracking,…
Ebook: The Definitive Guide to Driving Nonprofit Finance Efficiency with Paperless Automation
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many nonprofit organizations experienced an urgent need to undergo rapid digital transformation. Cloud business systems helped staff stay productive while they worked from home under government stay-at-home orders. More than a year later, it is clear many of the pandemic’s effects on the way we work and utilize technology will…
Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management, A Guide for Nonprofits
Current events have heightened the need for more and better risk management in the nonprofit sector. Enterprise risk management (ERM) is a long-term investment that improves an organization’s financial strength, operational efficiency, program effectiveness, and resilience during uncertain times. Sponsored by GRF CPAs & Advisors, Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management, A Guide for Nonprofits…
Ebook: 2021 Close the Books-Living on the Ledger
Closing the books for many organizations is an exercise in stamina and endurance. For nearly 60%, the close process takes over a week, delaying access to reliable information vital to business direction. To better understand the close process and help you find ways to accelerate your time to actionable insights, we at Sage Intacct run…
Cloud Integration Starts with a Strong SaaS Backbone
The challenge of integrating a growing stable of SaaS applications along with legacy on premises software will be daunting for the next several years. Choosing flexible core applications will be paramount as organizations cope with an unprecedented pace of business change that will stress legacy software. Consider choosing one application to be the integration point…
Next Generation Financial Consolidations
Corporate accounting has long been viewed as custodian and curator of financial data. However, whether it’s bringing the data together or distributing the financial results broadly, the financial consolidation process has long been an onerous drudgery of information assembly, validation, and reporting. The consolidation process for many corporate accounting groups is sometimes measured in months,…
Five Ingredients for Finance Transformation
Over the next 10 years, technology will do more to change the finance and accounting organization than it has over the past 50. A spate of advances in databases, data processing, analytics and tools addressing the user experience as well as the application of artificial intelligence will free up much of the time now required…