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Accounting Software for Biotech & Life Sciences

Accounting Software for Biotech & Life Sciences

Compliant financial and project management software to support and scale your scientific breakthroughs. Sage software helps biotech and life sciences manage grants, projects, research spend, and more, smarter.

Smart financials support scaling biotech breakthroughs

Track grants and research spend by trial, site, and sponsor with real-time dimensional reporting.
Stay audit-ready with SOC certifications and automated FDA, SOX, and global compliance.
Track grant restrictions and reporting with automated schedules and sponsor tags.
Consolidate global entities instantly with continuous rollups across subsidiaries and partnerships.

Uniquely suited for biotech

A single source of truth for all of your teams. Easy to adopt. Anywhere access. Fast collaboration and alignment.

Real-time financials and multi-entity accounting

Accounting and financials with built-in controls and FDA-ready audit trails.

  • Continuous, multi-entity accounting with a dimensional, AI-powered GL
  • Real-time reporting with customizable, role-based dashboards
  • Revenue recognition, program costing and billing, and seamless approvals

Real-time, project-level tracking and reporting

Monitor all research programs and project in granular detail.

  • Dimensional tagging for drillable reports and role-based dashboards
  • AI-powered time tracking and smart resource management
  • Restriction tracking and sponsor/grant reporting
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Confident decisions with real-time visibility across operations

Get and easily share instant insights with real-time reporting and role-based dashboards.

  • Budget tracking by client, program, and project
  • Integrated time tracking and resource planning
  • Multi-entity reporting and global consolidation

Integrate seamlessly across your tech stack

Connect your tech stack to your Sage solution and keep your teams in sync and data-driven. Use our open API or 200+ pre-built integrations with top business apps.
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Halloran adds $4 million in new profit since implementing Sage

Our customers see results

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Tania Zieja

CFO, Halloran Consulting Group

"[After evaluating Netsuite and Microsoft GP], we felt that Sage Intacct was head and shoulders better as far as ease of use, user access controls, revenue recognition, and the reporting factor.

The visibility we have through Sage Intacct is great. It's helped us improve profitability and make faster, better decisions."

Key features for biotech and life sciences

Specialized for biotech, from grant tracking to investor reporting.

Biotech financials and accounting

Manage finances, forecast growth, and optimize operations to drive strategic decisions and secure funding.

Built-in controls

Core financials with built-in controls and audit trails.

Role-based dashboards

Give teams the real-time insights they need to make strategic decisions quickly.

Clinical trial budgeting

Project and manage costs for multi-phase clinical trials.
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Exception-based reporting

Focus teams on budget variances and cost overruns, not routine manual tasks.

Multi-entity accounting

Automate inter-company transactions across subsidiaries and joint ventures.

Financial forecasting

Predict cash burn, model investments, and optimize financial strategy for growth.
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Real-time reporting

Access up-to-date financial data across all research programs and entities.
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Multi-entity consolidation

Complete performance view across entities with detailed individual reporting.

Project and grant management

Get full visibility into research projects, clinical trials, and grants.

Unified research dashboard

Monitor all research programs, trials, and grants from a single view.
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Time and expenses

Track time and expenses for employees from any device accurately.

R&D tax credit docs

Categorize and track expenses to support R&D tax credit claims.

Multi-dimensional reporting

Analyze research spending by program, therapeutic area, and funding source.

Grant compliance tracking

Track spending against grant requirements and generate compliance reports.

Clinical trial costing

Allocate costs accurately across multiple trials and research sites.

Research portfolio modeling

Model research portfolio scenarios to streamline development and achieve proof of concept.

Global compliance and scalable operations

Ensure consistent accounting standards and regulatory compliance across all international and public operations.

Faster month-end close

Transform month-end close from week-long ordeal into a streamlined process.

Scalable subsidiary management

Add new entities for partnerships or spin-offs quickly without disruptions.
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Automated workflows

Reduce manual tasks to ensure a more accurate and auditable financial process.

Global compliance

Maintain consistent accounting standards across all international entities.

IPO readiness

Build financial controls and audit trails to prepare for public company compliance.

Investor-ready reporting

Generates comprehensive reports that meet external stakeholder requirements.
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Resources for biotech, pharmaceutical, and life sciences companies

Explore the latest research, guides, and webinars on accounting and finance.
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How your biotech startup can use AI to supercharge finance

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FAQs for biotech, pharmaceutical, and life sciences companies

Sage Intacct provides a comprehensive financial management platform specifically designed for the complex operational needs of biotech and life sciences organizations. Unlike generic accounting software, Intacct delivers integrated grant and fund accounting, sophisticated cost allocation capabilities, multi-entity consolidation, advanced planning and forecasting tools, and detailed compliance reporting in a single cloud-based solution. The platform seamlessly handles complex research cost tracking, clinical trial budgeting, grant compliance requirements, and the detailed financial reporting that biotech companies require for investors and regulators. With native integrations to popular research management systems and purpose-built workflows for R&D-intensive businesses, Intacct eliminates the financial complexities that prevent biotech companies from scaling their operations efficiently while maintaining focus on scientific breakthroughs.

Sage Intacct is designed to scale with biotech companies from early-stage private companies through IPO and beyond as public entities. For smaller private biotechs (Series A-B), Intacct provides the sophisticated financial foundation needed to manage complex grant funding, research cost allocation, and investor reporting without the overhead of enterprise-level systems. The platform grows seamlessly with companies as they scale, supporting Series C-D organizations with multi-entity consolidation, advanced forecasting, and the robust financial controls needed for SOX compliance preparation. Public biotech companies benefit from Intacct's enterprise-grade security, comprehensive audit trails, and automated reporting capabilities that meet SEC filing requirements. Unlike systems that require costly upgrades or replacements as companies grow, Intacct provides a single platform that adapts to increasing complexity, from startup grant tracking to public company regulatory compliance, making it an ideal long-term financial management solution for the entire biotech lifecycle.

Sage Intacct's AI-powered timesheets are specifically designed for the complex time allocation needs of research-intensive organizations managing multiple grants, clinical trials, and development programs. Unlike basic time tracking tools that simply record hours, Intacct's intelligent system learns from researcher work patterns and automatically suggests time entries based on project schedules, grant requirements, and historical data. The AI can pre-populate timesheets with likely activities across different research programs, detect inconsistencies in time allocation patterns, and ensure compliance with grant funding requirements. For biotech companies, this means more accurate grant reporting, better cost allocation across research programs, and reduced administrative burden on research teams. The system also supports complex time allocation scenarios like splitting researcher time across multiple grants or clinical trials, ensuring that your financial reporting accurately reflects the sophisticated nature of biotech research operations.

Sage Intacct provides comprehensive grant and fund tracking capabilities specifically designed for research-intensive organizations managing multiple funding sources and compliance requirements. The platform enables detailed tracking of grant expenditures with multi-dimensional coding that captures spending by grant, research program, principal investigator, and expense category. Automated workflows ensure that costs are properly allocated to the correct funding sources while maintaining the detailed audit trails required for grant compliance. Real-time reporting capabilities allow research administrators to monitor grant utilization against budgets and generate the detailed reports that funding agencies require, including effort reporting and cost-sharing documentation. The system supports complex grant scenarios such as cost-sharing requirements, indirect cost calculations, and sub-award management. Integration capabilities allow data from research management systems to flow seamlessly into financial reports, ensuring accuracy while reducing administrative burden. For organizations managing federal grants, Intacct helps maintain compliance with regulations by providing the detailed documentation and reporting capabilities that auditors and funding agencies expect.

Sage Intacct delivers comprehensive financial reporting specifically designed for the unique needs of biotech and life sciences operations. The platform provides real-time research program profitability analysis, allowing you to see which therapeutic areas and development programs are performing within budget and timeline expectations. Executive dashboards offer instant visibility into key performance indicators like research burn rates, grant utilization, clinical trial costs, and cash runway projections. Multi-dimensional reporting capabilities enable you to analyze performance across different therapeutic programs, development phases, funding sources, and research sites. The system also provides sophisticated grant compliance reporting, detailed cost allocation analysis, and automated consolidation capabilities for multi-entity biotech organizations. Unlike generic accounting reports, Intacct's reporting is purpose-built for R&D-intensive businesses, providing the strategic insights that biotech leaders need to make informed go/no-go decisions about research investments, partnership opportunities, and strategic development priorities while maintaining the regulatory compliance and investor transparency that are critical to biotech operations.

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