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Sage Intacct accounting for professional services

Take collaboration and productivity to the next level with our professional services accounting software. Gain operational and financial visibility across your entire organisation to drive profitable growth.

Powerful, automated accounting software for professional services

Manage project profitability, optimise financials and accelerate client satisfaction. Sage Intacct gives you to power to oversee the health of your business to react fast and grow faster. 
Automate complex processes like cash management, AP/AR, order management, and more and slash close time by 50%.
See profit-and-loss by service, project, region, or another dimensions. Reach peak performance with rich, flexible financial reports and customisable dashboards.
Manage projects and profitability by tracking project costs, expediting time-and-expense processes and accelerating project billing.
Use our APIs or pre-built integrations to integrate with CRM tools like Salesforce, resource management software, Professional Services Automation (PSA) and more to streamline quote-to-cash cycles.

Why firms choose Sage Intacct

Sage Intacct

Whether it's digital marketing, IT services, professional employer organisations (PEOs), consulting, advertising, HR services, research, engineering, or another specialised sector, Sage Intacct  professional services software combines smooth operational workflows with greater visibility to help your firm drive profitable growth. We help CFOs and project managers:

Benefits

  • Drive profitability with optimised project management, costing, and accelerated billing cycles.
  • Deliver exceptional service by optimising resource allocation based on real-time insights. 
  • Simplify project management with AI-powered time tracking and mobile timesheets.

Benefits

  • Manage complex projects, diverse clients, and project teams confidently as you scale.
  • Drive digital transformation with shared, secure data and integrations with top solutions without high IT costs.
  • Drive digital transformation at your firm, cutting out countless spreadsheets and endless admin. 

Brian Lawrence

Senior Director, Finance and Taxation, Clinical Trial and Consulting Services (CTI)

"When our team went in search of a new accounting solution, we were looking for cloud-based options that would be more scalable, flexible, and intuitive for our teams around the world. Sage Intacct was a no-brainer for us because, unlike NetSuite and the other vendors we looked at, it met all of our requirements for integrated time and expense management and Multi-entity & global consolidations, and was robust and adaptable enough to grow with our business over time."

CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting

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Professional services accounting FAQs

Sage Intacct is a comprehensive financial management system with tailor made features for project-based businesses. Over 1.5 million projects have run on Sage Intacct. We work with companies that have financial management needs that range from simple cost tracking to detailed project task cost allocation and complex billing requirements. Our cloud-based system is centered on a high-powered general ledger that provides dimension level tracking for all of your transactions. What that means is you can significantly reduce the number of GL accounts you use, while also significantly expanding the way you report on your data. With automation of processes related to project costing, vendor management and accounts payable, project billing, time and expense tracking, and resource management, Sage Intacct can allow your finance team to focus on strategy instead of administrative process.

Professional Service Automation (PSA) is phrase often used to refer to a wide range of software features built to serve service organisations such as Consulting, Marketing Agency, Engineering, Architecture, Information Technology, and many other types of service providers. Many PSA software providers will use the term to refer to features related to the front of the project life cycle such as proposals, estimates and forecasting. PSA can also include resource management, time and expense tracking, vendor management and project billing.

Sage Intacct is a full featured accounting solution for professional services. Customers rely on Sage Intacct to 'own the dollar' for all of their project financial management needs. This covers project budgeting, billing, time and expense, AR/AP, vendor management, purchase orders and much more. By 'owning the dollar' our features extend to provide robust project financial reporting, resource management, and a suite of tools designed for operations and project managers.

The professional service industry is constantly faced with challenges of revenue leakage, low utilisation, and strained project profit. Accurate and complete time entry is a major contributing factor to these struggles. Sage Intelligent Time is the only AI powered time entry system built into a full featured ERP system. Sage Intelligent Time provides each member of your team with an AI powered time assistant that provides suggested time entry cards based on that employee's calendar, email, and other activity. Using machine learning, the Time Assistant gets smarter and continuously improves the speed and accuracy of your teams' timesheet.

Sage Intelligent Time is providing a solution to an age-old problem for service-based businesses. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are providing a tangible tool for your team to provide continuous and trusted insights regarding their time. With this insight, your project managers can make better decisions, you project pricing is more accurate, and you invoicing and close process are faster than ever.

For many growing professional service companies, the billing process is too labor intensive to scale. Billing for professional services can be complex depending on the various elements that you need to include on your invoice. Sage Intacct is built to handle even the most complex invoicing requirements, as well as the variety of revenue recognition methods that can be associated with them. Automation around time entry, expenses, purchase orders, vendors, and all the other components required for billing, are instantly available for your team to easily draft and issue invoices, helping you scale your business without being held back by cumbersome processes.

When it comes to financial reporting, automation, accuracy and customisation are key requirements for an effective solution. Sage Intacct financial reporting excels at all three. By leveraging the dimensions of the general ledger, reports can be grouped and sorted in a near unlimited way. Financial reporting done right can provide the insight your financial team needs to go from burdened with administrative tasks, to focusing on strategic planning. Whether you're creating multiple profit and loss reports, or automating project reports for your project managers, Sage Intacct can handle what you need.