Cloud computing-based financial applications have two central benefits that are particularly attractive to nonprofits. First, the entire organization can access the financial system from anywhere, at any time of day or night. Second, cloud-based applications are vastly more cost effective than trying to operate and manage their own financial management and fund accounting software. With Intacct, organizations do not incur a large upfront cash or CAPEX charges since they don't  need  to  buy  software,  hardware, or other infrastructure to deploy the system. Intacct is delivered using a subscription model, with one low monthly fee. Plus, there is no ongoing maintenance of the software for an IT team, allowing the organization to focus their financial and human resources on something more strategic to their mission than managing financial software.

Take for example, SEMI, the global industry association serving the nano- and micro-electronic manufacturing supply chains. SEMI (www.semi.org) switched from Lawson, an on-premises financial solution, to Intacct. Jim Jackman, corporate controller at SEMI, noted: "Intacct  offered the best mix of functionality and quickly eliminated the need for us to manage and maintain any hardware or software going forward. Intacct helps reduce the TCO of our financial system by at least  50  percent  on  an  annual  basis."

In addition to providing cost savings as a cloud-based system, Intacct offers nonprofits many other key benefits around improving financial operations. For example, Intacct helps nonprofits to gain real-time operational and financial visibility, deliver robust financial and regulatory reporting, achieve world-class stewardship of funds, accelerate billing and collections, and automate revenue management.

Canyon Ridge Christian Church (www.canyonridge.org) switched from QuickBooks to Intacct in 2011. Gay Lynn Martin, finance director for Canyon Ridge, commented on  Intacct's  flexibility  and scalability for growing organizations: "Intacct provides all the functionality we need today and allows us to grow into the more advanced financial functionality, like multi-entity management, over time. Intacct has enabled us to double the productivity of our finance team while providing better overall control and visibility into the use of our funds. With Intacct, we can continue to grow without the need to immediately add headcount to our finance team - providing a nice savings to the church."

Cloud computing is one of the hottest trends for nonprofit organizations, and Intacct has seen an increasing number of organizations select Intacct for cloud financial management. Some of the nonprofit organizations that have recently selected or gone live on Intacct, include: Bridges Community Church (www.bridgescc.org), California Southern Baptist Convention (www.csbc.com), Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (www.hiltonfoundation.org), Fellowship Bible Church (www.fellowshipnashville.org), Fellowship Church (www.fellowshipchurch.com), IslandWood (www.islandwood.org), Lake  Monticello  Owners'  Association (www.lmoa.org), National Council on Crime & Delinquency (www.nccd-crc.org), NECCO (www.necco.org), Organ Donation & Transplantation Alliance (www.organdonationalliance.org), UAB Educational Foundation(www.uab.edu/uabef), White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (www.whiteribbonalliance.org), Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (www.wedc.org), and Women's  World  Banking (www.swwb.org).

To learn more about how  Intacct's  cloud  financial  applications  help  nonprofit  organizations,  please visit http://us.intacct.com/your-business/your-industry/nonprofits. Case studies from several Intacct nonprofit customers are available here: http://us.intacct.com/customer-successes?vertical=Non-profit#casestudies.

About Intacct
Intacct is the cloud financial management company. Bringing cloud computing to finance and accounting,  Intacct's  award-winning applications are the preferred financial applications for AICPA business solutions. Intacct applications, in use by more than 5,000 organizations from startups to public companies, are designed to improve company performance and make finance more productive. Hundreds of leading CPA firms and Value Added Resellers offer Intacct to their clients. The Intacct system includes accounting, contract management, revenue management, project and fund accounting, inventory management, purchasing, vendor management, financial consolidation and financial reporting applications, all delivered over the Internet via cloud computing.

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