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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 organization to drive profitable growth.

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CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting

Powerful, automated accounting software for professional services

Manage project profitability, optimize 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 customizable 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.

Advanced professional services accounting software features

Our features and flexible add-on modules are perfect for growing firms to further automate and streamline complex processes.

Employee timesheets

Revolutionize your timesheet management with AI powered time tracking software and our employee timesheet app.

Project accounting

Manage project costs and revenue, keep projects on time, and maintain project profitability.

Multi-entity and global consolidations

Consolidate hundreds of entities in minutes, not days – and boost productivity by more than 50%.

Unlock secrets from top CFOs

Discover the strategies and best practices top financial leaders use to be more strategic and impactful in leading their organizations.

Why firms choose Sage Intacct

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Whether it's digital marketing, IT services, professional employer organizations (PEOs), consulting, advertising, HR services, research, engineering, or another specialized 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 optimized project management, costing, and accelerated billing cycles.
  • Deliver exceptional service by optimizing 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. 

A solution that supports your firm's unique needs

No matter your industry, unlock new opportunities and drive your firm's growth with the best  ERP software for project-based businesses. Close up to 70% faster and seamlessly handle multiple entities, currencies, and compliance as you scale. 

Biotech, pharmaceutical, and life sciences companies

Our cloud accounting is ideal for the needs of biotech, pharmaceutical, and life sciences organizations.

Engineering companies

Track your project costing, bill your customers, and manage all your service lines.

Marketing and advertising agencies

Track your campaign and project costs, bill your customers accurately, and allocate your vendor spend.

Service-based businesses

Track your project costing, bill your customers, and manage all financial processes.

Resources for professional services companies

Explore the latest research, guides, and webinars on accounting for professional services.
Analyst report

Sage Intacct named a leader in IDC Marketscape Report

G2 report

Sage Intacct accounting software products— #1 in customer satisfaction

Analyst research

2023 Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark Report

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Overcoming financial growing pains in professional services organizations

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Talk to our product specialist to help you get the most out of your software so you can be more productive.

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Tap into talks and articles from the world's leading experts to help with business challenges, like using innovation to create impact.

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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 organizations 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 utilization, 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 customization 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.

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