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Cloud accounting software for government

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Built to elevate government financial operations

Boost efficiency with GASB-compliant fund accounting, grant tracking and billing, dynamic allocations, and outcomes reporting.

Easily create and customize reports, dashboards, and visualizations. Provide real-time visibility into your organization's financial health.

Our industry-leading dimensional chart of accounts lets governments analyze and understand their operations by location, program, entity, or any measure.

Combine Sage Intacct with our payroll and HR solutions, or connect effortlessly to your preferred applications to gain a holistic view of operations.

Secure, collaborative, and quick to deploy, Sage Intacct Planning eliminates spreadsheet budgeting and natively integrates with core financials.

Advanced functionality to automate government accounting processes

Grant tracking and billing

Improve the delivery, reimbursement, reporting, and audit of your grant awards.

Spend management

Control spending, stay within budget, and ensure budget compliance.

Allocations

Understand your organization's performance with fully automated allocation software.

Sage Intacct Payroll

Empower your organization to take care of your greatest asset, your people.

Sage Intacct Planning

Enable your organization to budget, plan, and quickly adapt to ever-changing conditions.

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Bring accounting and housing software together in the cloud to enhance finance and administration and ensure compliance.

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Streamline utility operations between your financial management system and your utility billing software for comprehensive oversight.

Why government organizations choose Sage Intacct

Government organizations face unique challenges in managing public funds and maintaining compliance. From fund accounting and grant management to budgeting and reporting, Sage Intacct government accounting software helps you manage public resources with transparency and efficiency.
  • Real-time visibility into fund balances, expenditures, and budgets to ensure compliance and demonstrate responsible stewardship.
  • Proactive insights and customizable dashboards that empower data-driven decisions with role-based metrics.
  • Simplified, transparent fund accounting to efficiently manage restricted funds, and grants.
  • Tailored transactions and approval workflows to streamline processes and eliminate redundant data entry.
  • Automated fund, grant, revenue, and billing processes to increase efficiency with digital approvals and clean audit trails.
  • Secure, anytime, anywhere access for staff and volunteers that enhance collaboration.

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Accounting software for governments FAQs

Yes, you can automate government accounting. Sage Intacct accounting software streamlines your financial operations, making it simple to automate accounts payable, track qualified and non-qualified expenses, and manage approvals across your government organization.

Governments can use accounting software to streamline inter-entity transactions and allocations, automate workflows and approvals, consolidate data across multiple locations, and much more.

Sage Intacct is a cloud-based financial management system that makes it easy to track grants, funds, and finances—especially if you are a government organization that must comply with certain laws.

Cloud based accounting software helps government organizations improve transparency in their organization. All data is centralized and can be accessed anywhere, at any time. This allows different people in your organization to work together using the same data, even if they are not in the same location.

You can improve the accounting processes for government organizations by using a cloud-based accounting solution to manage all your accounting processes (payroll, grant management, investment management, budgeting and planning, CRMs like Salesforce, etc.), and connect it with other software to track metrics central to your organization's operations.

The best accounting software for government offers full accounting functionality at affordable prices. It will include features to manage accounting needs, staff and communities and comply with tax law.

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