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CFO’s what’s the real price of playing it safe
The old saying is, “If nobody moves, nobody gets hurt.” But that’s not true for business today. In fact, if you don’t move—change, innovate, accelerate—you may be at great risk of losing customers and losing ground to the competition. Twenty years ago, organizations...
Leading with Your Heart—and Thriving Financially—in the Nonprofit World
There’s a common push-pull in the nonprofit world. Some days, your work is tightly aligned with your mission, which feels great—but isn’t sustainable if you’re not also focused on financial stability. Other days, your focus is on fundraising, reports, and other money...
How healthy is your nonprofit?
How healthy is your nonprofit? To answer that question—and make critical decisions that will shape your future—you need to dig well beyond simple profit and loss. Sage Intacct, the cloud financial solution, has teamed up with GuideStar, the largest source of nonprofit...
Aligning Sales and Finance: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
At many organizations, the sales and finance departments co-exist, but they don’t exactly work in harmony. For instance, sales might bring in a new customer and feel their job is done, but then they hand it off to finance with the hope that all the nitty-gritty...
5 Steps for Nonprofits to Ensure a Smooth Move to New Accounting Software
There’s no sense sugarcoating it: Selecting and implementing new accounting software can be difficult and time-consuming. That’s especially true for nonprofits that need to make the move with minimal disruption and maximum transparency. Fortunately, you can go live...Sage Intacct's View from the Cloud
Rob Reid recently got to chat with Harry Stebbings on the 20 Minute VC Podcast, covering a range of topics including: how what it takes to be a great CEO has changed over the last 30 years, whether “management upscaling is the most important role a CEO can do, and how the old school CEO approach is upside down and backward. He shares a few key highlights from their conversation in the following Q&A four-part blog series. Read more >
Artificial intelligence (AI), which can combine automation and algorithms to simulate human intelligence, can help businesses increase efficiency and performance. Increasingly, companies are realizing the advantages of AI and investing heavily in the technology. Global spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence systems reached roughly $12.5 billion in 2017. For the finance community specifically, AI can help distill enormous quantities of data into actionable patterns, and fill in blind spots to help engage clients with greater confidence. Read more >
HSG is a leading healthcare consulting firm that helps hospitals and other healthcare providers develop physician networks, optimize strategy and transition to value-based care. But its own financial management processes were ailing until HSG upgraded from QuickBooks to Sage Intacct. The company has dramatically accelerated financial processes, saving time and money while gaining real-time visibility into the business since deploying the Sage Intacct cloud financial management platform. Read more >
Rob Reid recently got to chat with Harry Stebbings on the 20 Minute VC Podcast, covering a range of topics including: how what it takes to be a great CEO has changed over the last 30 years, whether “management upscaling is the most important role a CEO can do, and how the old school CEO approach is upside down and backward. He shares a few key highlights from their conversation in the following Q&A four-part blog series. Read more >
Is your SaaS company healthy? Are you growing at the right pace? If you don’t have a quick answer to these questions, it’s probably because your business isn’t identifying and tracking key metrics to help you keep a finger on the pulse of your company. How a subscription-based company manages metrics depends on many things, like the services sold, age of the business, number of customers served, and rate of growth. Let’s take a closer look at some best practices that will ensure your SaaS business is managing metrics correctly. Read more >
Nonprofit organizations like Meals on Wheels America can’t afford to waste resources and make guesswork decisions. Meals on Wheels, supporting programs that provide 2.4 million seniors with nutritious meals, friendly visits and safety checks has gained breakthrough insights and cost-efficiency to keep pace with rapidly growing demands. Read more >