Why Sage Intacct is the Best Alternative to Microsoft Dynamics GP for Nonprofits

Is it time to transition your nonprofit organisation’s accounting and financial management software?

It’s challenging to navigate today’s dynamic environment with technology that was designed before the Internet. With increased oversight, competition for funding, and expanding compliance requirements, your organisation should be leveraging the most modern technology available today.

Sage Intacct makes your team more effective and efficient from day one. These are some of the capabilities non-profits benefit from when they make the move from Microsoft Dynamics GP to Sage Intacct:

• Manage grants, programs, and funds, track qualified and non-qualified expenses and automate outcome metrics for real-time visibility
• Automate day-to-day revenue recognition and expense allocation tasks for greater compliance
• Consolidate continuously across entities and currencies with drill-down to source data
• Budget and plan without using Excel or a third-party vendor
• Track expenses against budgets, compile spend requests, and manage fund availability from purchasing and payables during transaction entry

Empower the modern accounting team

“One of my favorite things about Sage Intacct is how we can track and report on grants and restricted contributions very
easily and instantaneously, up-to-the-minute. It’s as if Sage Intacct was designed specifically for nonprofit accounting.”

~ Robert Ehret, VP of Finance, Boys & Girls Club of Greater Tarrant County

Infuse flexibility and automation

Sage Intacct brings flexibility and automation to your organization, freeing up time to focus on strategic financial management. Easily configure operational workflow processes, tracking and reporting, and compliance based on your specific requirements. As your organisation evolves, financial operations need to keep pace with transaction tracking procedures, internal controls, and reporting views that support the current organisational needs.

“Our reporting is like night and day compared with Microsoft Dynamics GP. Sage Intacct has opened our eyes by delivering
real-time visibility into each and every one of our clinic locations. And now that we have greater transparency into our
donations, we know exactly how many patients we can support each year and what level of care we can offer them.”

~ Don Mackay, CFO, Remote Area Medical

Gain greater visibility into mission success

Don’t waste another moment trying to combine financial and statistical data in spreadsheets. Sage Intacct offers the native ability to automatically report on both financial information and operational metrics—and then allows you to include calculations of the two within the system.

“In the world of community health centers, you have to be able to look at your financials in a very dynamic way in order to
both meet compliance requirements and actively manage operations. From my own experience, as well as every other CFO
I’ve asked, there’s no financial system better than Sage Intacct when it comes to analyzing data across multiple dimensions.”

~ Lora Winchell, CFO, Hunter Health

Seamlessly connect with other solutions

Sage Intacct was built on a cloud platform from day one, giving it the ability to connect to disparate systems and eliminate information silos. Our open API lets you connect to existing or future systems. This means you can leverage key data from donor management, payroll, budgeting, CRMs like Salesforce, and others to track metrics that are central to your organisation’s operations and programs in one place.

“Now that Sage Intacct and Salesforce are completely integrated, we can see data accumulating throughout the
month. For example, every time a membership is purchased on our website, it integrates to Sage Intacct immediately.”

~ Jeremy Van Ek, COO, American Marketing Association

Gain efficiencies for multiple entities

Streamline inter-entity transactions, allocations, eliminations, reporting, and analysis with extensive built-in automation and one-click consolidations.

“Our fund visibility has been drastically improved because of the Sage Intacct multi-entity, multi-dimensional architecture.
With the many dimensions available within Sage Intacct, we are able to easily keep track of each fund’s separate cash or
accounts payable balance, or roll up all of our funds to look at the Foundation’s overall portfolio.”

~ Jodie Mote, Controller & Treasurer, UAB Educational Foundation

Ready to leverage modern cloud technology?

Is your finance team ready to maximize return on mission and gain the visibility, flexibility, efficiency, automation, and integration available with a modern cloud accounting solution?

Your current maintenance and operational costs may be more than you realize. Replacing and updating your accounting solution with a modern, best-in-class cloud solution costs less than you think and saves you time and resources. We can help you do the analysis and discover how to lead your organization to better stewardship and greater impact. Check out Sage Intacct and see what is possible.

About Sage Intacct

Sage Intacct is the AICPA’s preferred provider of cloud financial applications.

Specialising in helping nonprofits of all types—including health and human services, NGOs, charities, trade and membership associations, cultural institutions, and faith-based organisations—Sage Intacct streamlines grant, fund, project, and donor accounting, while delivering real-time visibility into the metrics that matter.

A true cloud solution, with open APIs, gives nonprofits the connectivity, visibility, and efficiency they need to do more with less. Sage Intacct helps nonprofits strengthen stewardship, build influence, grow funding, and achieve mission success.

In addition to intuitive software solutions, Sage Membership provides members with access to actionable human advice from experts and peers through exclusive content and tools to help you make even better mission-critical decisions.

Contact us at Akuna Solutions and explore with a Sage Intacct implementation specialist how to leverage the most modern technology available today to support your organisation’s mission. 

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