Sage Intacct and GuideStar Announce Exclusive Relationship to Strengthen Stewardship of Funds for Nonprofit Finance Teams

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Advantage 2017 -- Sage Intacct, the innovation and customer satisfaction leader in cloud financial management software, today announced a new, exclusive relationship with GuideStar, the world's largest source of nonprofit information. During the opening keynote of Sage Intacct Advantage 2017 in Las Vegas, the two companies unveiled a new Sage Intacct Nonprofit Financial Board Book Powered by GuideStar.

The Nonprofit Financial Board book is built on the Sage Intacct platform and incorporates the best practice metrics and insight that GuideStar uses to demonstrate the financial health of nonprofit organizations, as well as ensure the organization is on track in accomplishing their missions. This new digital board book uses real-time transactional data from the system of record to automate the calculation of key financial and operational metrics important to nonprofit organizational health.

For nonprofit organizations, Sage Intacct and GuideStar share a common goal of enabling better financial stewardship and improved mission accomplishment based on a holistic view of each organization. Beyond program expenditures and efficiency metrics, nonprofits need to ensure they have the sustainability and capacity to deliver on their commitments. This comes from a number of factors, but one of the most important is understanding whether they have enough funding to carry out their missions should any of their funding sources be impacted.

The Sage Intacct Nonprofit Financial Board Book is a real-time strategy tool that meets the specific needs of nonprofit organizations. Key metrics such as revenue composition, liquidity, and unrestricted cash are displayed via pre-built dashboards to show financial health over time. The metrics are automatically calculated using balance sheet, revenue, and expense data from Sage Intacct, and through additional operational sources from within the organization including its Donor Management Systems, Budgeting and Planning software, Payroll, and more. The dashboards help to spur conversation and analysis, while real-time delivery eliminates delays in monitoring these metrics and improves the organization's ability to respond to unplanned changes in funding.

"With critical revenue, funding, and expense data at their fingertips, nonprofit finance executives have real-time insights into the health of their organization and can make the important decisions that will shape their future," said Dan Miller, VP of Product for Sage Intacct. "GuideStar is a natural partner to work with when developing the Nonprofit Financial Board Book," added Miller. "With more than 7 million users, across 2.5 million nonprofit organizations, GuideStar has its finger on the pulse of the nonprofit sector and we share a goal of helping these organizations make better decisions through access to information."

"Nonprofit sector leaders and practitioners know that better data can lead to better decisions and a better world. GuideStar is focused on helping organizations convert data to intelligence to strengthen mission accomplishment. These efforts were a driving factor in our decision to partner with Sage Intacct," said Adrian Bordone, VP of Strategic Partnerships at GuideStar. "We envision a nonprofit sector strong enough to tackle the great challenges of our time. The first step in that process is to ensure nonprofit organizations have the information they need to make smart decisions, build connections, and learn from each other to achieve their missions. The Sage Intacct Nonprofit Financial Board Book delivers critical insights for nonprofits and meets a timely and significant market need for better access to information."

The Nonprofit Financial Board Book is based on the framework developed by GuideStar to monitor the financial performance of nonprofit organizations. The board book also features a direct link to GuideStar right from the dashboard, enabling joint customers to leverage comparative information and peer organizations that may have encountered similar issues to identify best practices for improvement.

"GuideStar was a natural partner to work with when developing the Nonprofit Financial Board Book," added Miller. "With more than 8 million users, across 2.6 million nonprofit organizations, GuideStar has its finger on the pulse of the nonprofit sector and we share a goal of helping these organizations make better decisions through access to information."

The Sage Intacct Nonprofit Financial Board Book is expected to be generally available in early 2018. To learn more about how Sage Intacct helps nonprofit organizations, please visit https://www.sageintacct.com/nonprofit-accounting-software.

About GuideStar

GuideStar is the world's largest source of nonprofit information, connecting people and organizations with data on 2.6 million current and formerly IRS-recognized nonprofits. Each year, more than 8 million people, including individual donors, nonprofit leaders, grant makers, government officials, academic researchers, and the media, use GuideStar data to make intelligent decisions about the social sector.

GuideStar Nonprofit Profiles are populated with information directly from nonprofits, the IRS, and other partners in the nonprofit sector. In addition, users see GuideStar data on more than 200 philanthropic websites and applications. GuideStar is itself a 501(c)(3) public charity. For more information, please visit www.guidestar.org.

About Sage Intacct

Sage Intacct is the innovation and customer satisfaction leader in cloud financial management. With the powerful combination of Sage and Intacct, the Sage Business Cloud offers the best capabilities of both companies. Bringing cloud computing to finance and accounting, Sage Intacct's innovative and award-winning applications are the preferred financial applications for AICPA business solutions. In use by organizations from startups to public companies, Sage Intacct is designed to improve company performance and make finance more productive. Hundreds of leading CPA firms and Value Added Resellers also offer Intacct to their clients. The Sage Intacct system includes accounting, cash management, purchasing, vendor management, financial consolidation, revenue recognition, subscription billing, contract management, project accounting, fund accounting, inventory management, and financial reporting applications, all delivered through the cloud.

Sage Intacct is based in San Jose, California and an entity of Sage, the market and technology leader for integrated accounting, payroll and payment systems, supporting the ambition of entrepreneurs and business builders and a FTSE 100 business. For more information on Sage Intacct, please visit https://www.sageintacct.com or call 877-437-7765. Connect with Sage Intacct on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

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