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Elevate your mission with automated church metrics
Sep 23, 2021 · Authored by
It can be hard to imagine that cloud-based ERP can help you accomplish your mission. Time and time again, we’ve seen churches and other not-for-profit organizations strengthen stewardship and demonstrate their outcomes with church metrics. Find out how the visibility, flexibility, efficiency, automation and integration you need to succeed is a reality with Baker Tilly and cloud church accounting.
Streamline grant and donor accounting
With extensive experience helping not-for-profits of all types including congregations and faith ministries, Baker Tilly streamlines grant, fund, program, and donor accounting, while delivering real-time visibility into the metrics that matter.
Our modern, cloud-based solution, the only one endorsed by the AICPA, gives faith-based organizations the visibility, and efficiency they need to do more with less. At Baker Tilly, we have helped hundreds of congregations and faith ministries strengthen stewardship, build influence, grow funding, and achieve mission success.
Gain real-time operational and financial visibility
The days of flying blind without real-time reporting and visibility are over. Sage Intacct includes a dynamic, multidimensional, multiledger system that enables you to easily capture granular financial and operational data in exactly the same way that you manage your organization.
Gain real-time visibility into the overall health of your faith-based organization’s finances; whether you’re interested in which funds were used for each program, the performance of your organization by entity, campus or department, the expense tied to each volunteer or employee, or any other aspect unique to your organization.
Sage Intacct’s role-based dashboards and rich reporting and analytics make it easy to keep a pulse on the financial health of your organization, as well as the health of individual programs, and to accurately budget for the months ahead. Sage Intacct automatically keeps your sub-ledgers and your general ledger synchronized in real-time, so you always have instant access to summaries and balances as well as transaction details.
Manage multi-entity, multilocation and multicurrency needs
Your congregation or faith ministry is complex, but your system doesn’t have to be. Whether you’re a Catholic diocese that manages a chancery, parishes, schools, and cemeteries, a megachurch that manages a dozen campuses, or a global faith-based relief organization with subsidiaries and satellite offices in multiple countries, Baker Tilly automates multi-entity, multisite, multicurrency, and multicountry operations.
Streamline inter-entity transactions, allocations, eliminations, and financial consolidation, reporting, and analysis with extensive built-in automation and one-click consolidations. Take advantage of deep support for global organizations with automatic multicurrency transactions and reporting. Plus, you can store, manage, and report any data in multiple currencies.
Simplify grant, fund and donor accounting
Running reports tailored to each funder’s requirements shouldn’t be hard. No two funding sources are alike, creating extraordinary complexity in congregation and faith ministry accounting. From revenue recognition to reporting, Sage Intacct makes it easy to measure the effectiveness of your organization’s programs and demonstrate your financial responsibility to your congregation, donors, grantors, volunteers, and others.
Baker Tilly provides your team with a platform that features robust fund, grant, and donor accounting, flexible budgeting and planning, real-time reporting, and role-based dashboards.
Empower the modern church team
Your teams become more effective and efficient from day one. With Sage Intacct, you can create tailored dashboards and reports—on the spot—that are relevant to your faith-based organization’s specific mission and operational measures.
Engage both employees and volunteers in your financial processes with built-in expense management, time and billing, and purchasing applications—saving hundreds of hours of staff time every year. You’ll also save hours every month and eliminate errors by getting rid of spreadsheets to calculate allocations.
Plus you can do your job from any browser and any device with confidence. This also allows you to easily provide views to non-finance personnel including the executive team, finance committee, and other key stakeholders within your organization that require insight for decision making, including full drill-down capability to source documents.
You can also empower non-finance personnel to initiate finance department interactions such as expense requests, check requests, purchase requisitions, budget to actual, and more with flexible electronic workflows, easy-coding rules, and anywhere access.
Replacing and updating your old accounting solution with a modern, best-in-class cloud solution built for not-for-profits and faith-based organizations can cost less than you think—while saving you time and resources.
We can help you prepare an ROI analysis for your key stakeholders and discover how you can lead your organization to better stewardship and greater impact. Our mission is to help you succeed with your mission.