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Growing Internationally with the Cloud

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At rinehimerbaker we focus a considerable amount of time helping our customers grow within their currents markets and helping them achieve their growth goals. If their growth takes them into international markets we take steps to ensure they have the tools to succeed. Expanding into international markets brings communication and data sharing challenges if you don’t have the right technology in place.  Here are some of the ways cloud-based ERP’s can help alleviate the complexity of growing internationally.

Seamless Connection Around the Globe

The cloud is a set of servers that can be accessed over the internet. This eliminates on-premise hardware and allows a company or person to be anywhere with access to their data. There’s no need to set up your own internal networks or maintain security on your logins. Cloud systems protect your data and are constantly updated to ensure you can access it anywhere anytime. This is what has created the boom in remote employees and has given companies an easy way to expand their business. This includes going international because they can seamlessly add team members without missing a beat.

Real-Time Data to Monitor and Create Growth

With the anywhere anytime access companies also gain the ability to see real-time results for their business including net income, expenses, revenue, and more by total company or separate location. As companies add on new countries of business, they can easily create separate entities to track how the new area is performing. It also lets you easily see the difference in cost for vendors, profits, customer turnover, and more. A cloud-based solution also allows you to easily rollup that data for a total company performance. With the ease of insight into what is working and what is not working across all departments it allows a company to successful set up new branches no matter the location.

Multiple Currencies and Compliance

 

When growing internationally you may find your that your business has to conduct transactions in foreign currencies. Leading cloud ERP solutions can seamlessly handle transactions in multiple currencies which lessens the burden on your accounting staff. Compliance and tax laws can also become more complex for your business when you cross borders. Cloud ERP’s offer the ability to structure your company so that you capture all of your data and stay in compliance.

Expanding your company’s reach has never been easier, take full advantage of what the cloud has to offer by ensuring all the technology your company uses is cloud-based.


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When Family Offices Should Move to the Cloud

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Family Offices are key to managing wealth and asset growth for current and future generations of a family. As they grow, the ownership structures become more complex and sophisticated, the diversification of assets widens, and their need for real-time information becomes imminent. With that type of responsibility on a company’s shoulders, the last thing they need is additional stress that comes with being behind in technology advancements including their accounting solution. If a family office is still using an on-premise solution for their accounting department, they are missing out on the elimination of manual work, real-time data, continuous consolidation, and easy access from anywhere. A cloud ERP solution provides all of that and more. Below are the top benefits we have seen family offices gain from switching to the cloud.

Cloud-Based

Being cloud-based is the number one asset we can provide for family offices. This gives the office and family members access anywhere, anytime. The office managers can travel with the family and, with internet access,still have access to all their data. This also means that family members can access their information at home, or on the go. Lastly, the office can be located wherever the best talent is, leaving the family with the flexibility to be where they are happiest.

Multi-Entity

Another top benefit of a cloud-based solution is a multi-entity platform with continuous consolidation. This allows offices to manage each family member individually with the option for a quick total family roll-up. Our recommended cloud-based solution allows users to manage separate entities (aka different family members or businesses) under a single log-in. This provides the capability to produce individual reports at the entity level or consolidate at the family level. The reports require a quick few clicks and are instantly completed. Report templates can be saved which allows users to swiftly access them again. With reports being easy to create and run users can quickly see their consolidation which eliminates the need to combine reports manually.

Dashboards

Custom Investor dashboards are a great asset as they can be the login screen for each user and can be customized to their daily needs. Since family offices typically deal with a large portfolio of investments, having the real-time data displayed immediately upon log-in gives the user an overall view of the financial information that’s important to them. The dashboards can be customized to each user based on their position or to a certain family member that only wants to see their personal information. The dashboards also give the user a quick way to drill down into the details of data if they want to know more about it.

Eliminating Manual Work

Eliminating manual work can save family offices multiple hours of staff work as well as help keep their team lean. An example of this is when a family office has to process dozens of checks each week. When they move to the cloud, they eliminate all of the manual work which can include the opening of the mail/ printing emails, scanning the bills, routing them via email for approval and coding along with tracking where are in the approval process, entering into QuickBooks, printing checks, signing checks, stuffing envelopes, trips to the post office, and filing. On top of eliminating all of these steps, you also get rid of the constant paper waste. This can all be automated using bill.com where the bills get emailed directly to the inbox, coded, routed for approval and paid either electronically or with a check generated by bill.com. The details are then automatically synced with your cloud solution.

 

Overall, the benefits a family office can gain from moving their accounting ERP to the cloud will transform how they operate. The elimination of manual efforts allows for a better run business, quicker decisions, and growth.

 

Find out how rinehimerbaker can help your company get results through the cloud by reaching out to accounting@rinehimerbaker.com.


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Transform Your Business Through Sage Intacct Dashboard Feature

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For business leaders a clear, concise dashboard that showcases real-time information allows them to easily see a digestible snapshot of their company’s status. Without a dashboard providing performance cards, reports, and graphs an executive or financial leader could be left in the dark on what is occurring in their business. Companies without dashboards often waste time on pulling, sorting, and formatting data rather than focusing on understanding their finances and strategizing on steps for improvement.

What does a customized dashboard look like?

8-10 key performance metrics, covering both financial and non-financial data, that are important to you and your company. You can even harness the power of Sage Intacct’s open API to integrate other software programs, allowing your dashboard to incorporate key data from other company systems, like volume, pricing, shipments, market share, and more.
Dashboards are modern and interactive, allowing you to quickly drill down with the click of a button to find out what is driving the results you are seeing. You can sort, filter, or slice and dice the data any way you want to dive deeper and truly understand your financials, ultimately giving you total power over your financial well-being.

How are you transforming?

Since the data being displayed is real-time financial leaders can use these metrics to make business-changing decisions and drive their management team’s actions. What’s even better? Each user’s dashboard can be customized to the metrics that pertain to their job. With each executive and finance team member having their own dashboard they have anywhere, anytime access to the data they need to deliver at peak performance, without comprising data security.

Dashboards will become your “finger on the pulse” of your company, forever changing how you and your team react to changes. At the end of the day, your company will have an edge on the competition by shifting from spending time aggregating data to spending time analyzing and acting upon insights.

rinehimerbaker is an outsourced cloud accounting company that can do it all. We offer consultation and implementation of cloud-based ERP solutions, outsourced accounting, and more. Contact our team at accounting@rinehimerbaker.com to find out more about how we can help you keep up with 2020’s biggest accounting trends.

 


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Sage Intacct and Salesforce

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The Sage Intacct integration with Salesforce via open API gives your company a best-in-class cloud ERP accounting solution and a best-in-class cloud CRM solution. This powerful integration gives you a full view of your customer’s life cycle, streamlines your quote-to-cash process, and increases your internal communication between the departments that deal with the numbers!

The key highlights of the integration are productivity and automation. By integrating both best-in-class solutions you eliminate the double entry by both your sales and accounting team. This reduces the number of errors that occur from manually entering the same data in multiple locations and saves hours of work each month. It also enables the sales and finance teams to quickly and easily gain the visibility needed between the sales cycle and the customer activities.

How does it work?

Once a sale is completed in Salesforce it triggers the data to be pushed into Sage Intacct for invoicing and revenue recognition based on your company’s requirements. With this integration you now have a fully automated quote-to-cash process where the sales and finance teams have the visibility they need.

Another great aspect is that Salesforce chatter is imbedded into Sage Intacct. This allows your sales team to check pricing, discuss different aspects of a deal, and more with the finance department with ease. Both departments can work in the software they know while having open and real-time discussions.

Overall, implementing both Salesforce and Sage Intacct with the integration can save your company hundreds of hours by eliminating duplicate entry and the errors the follow, utilize automated process for your customer lifecycle, and increase the visibility for both your sales and finance departments. It’s a big win for the company when you get sales and finance teams in sync.

To find out how rinehimerbaker can help your company implement both cloud-based solutions please reach out to accounting@rinehimerbaker.com.


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Sage Intacct Reporting

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Check out November’s Sage Intacct Tips and Trick video produced by our internal team. This month we review Sage Intacct’s reporting capabilities and how they can give your company greater insight. The reporting capabilities allow you to slice and dice the data any way you want to really see into your data.

 

Find out more from our team by emailing accounting @rinehimerbaker.com


Where is Cloud Accounting Technology Headed

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Watch our webinar this week on Where Cloud Accounting Technology is Headed. The webinar was lead by Tonya Lilly and Michael Garrison. They discussed what the cloud is, what current benefits of the cloud are, where cloud accounting technology is headed, and how our team works with the cloud.

As you watch if there are questions you have please reach out to our team at accounting@rinehimerbaker.com.


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rinehimerbaker’s customer recognized at Sage Intacct Advantage

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At this year’s Sage Intacct Advantage conference, our customer MemberClicks was recognized as a recipient of the Sage Intacct Customer Success Award, an award designed to celebrate customers who have made dramatic improvements to their business and financial operations using Sage Intacct.

MemberClicks’ mission is to “Empower member-based organization to thrive through refreshing technology and a heart for service.” Their purpose-built suite of technology and customer-centric culture helps them achieve this allowing their customers to focus on serving its members.

For MemberClicks, 2017 was a year that largely focused on growth. With that came the challenges that all growing companies face and in 2018 they decided it was time for a new system that would help, not hinder, their company.

Sage Intacct was implemented for its ability to automate their order to cash process, manage customers’ subscriptions, and automate revenue management to keep them compliant with ASC 606, along with many other benefits!

Using Sage Intacct, MemberClicks was able to increase efficiencies throughout the organization with capabilities like:

  • Producing consolidated financials from multiple entities with various currencies in just a few clicks
  • Closing their books in just four days and spending the ten days they saved to analyze the data rather than reconcile it
  • Seamless order to cash process starting in Salesforce and creating contracts when deals are closed/won
    • Automating revenue and billing management across 3,000+ contracts
    • Automating customer payments through recurring subscription billing

Using Sage Intacct, they now have a consistent customer experience across the entire organization from orders to renewals to payments and everything in between. This consistency provides key members the visibility into every stage of the contracts’ lifecycle.

rinehimerbaker worked with MemberClicks to design and deploy this fully integrated solution centered around Sage Intacct. As a group, we were committed to helping migrate the company’s entire accounting operations onto a system up to the challenge of supporting their dynamic organization.

With MemberClicks recognized as one of a few winners selected out of hundreds of applicants, the journey for them proved worthwhile and demonstrates that success like this can be achieved by organizations of all sizes when you work with people and software that strive to achieve great results!

Congratulations again to MemberClicks from the entire rinehimerbaker team!

Find out how rinehimerbaker can help your company get similar results by reaching out to accounting@rinehimerbaker.com.


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Does Sage Intacct have Payroll?

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A question our team gets asked often is does Sage Intacct have payroll?

The answer is yes and no. Sage Intacct has a philosophy that they want their customers to have a best-in-class solution allowing them to stay focused on continuously adding innovation to the ERP.

Sage Intacct’s open API allows other likeminded vendors to build best-in-class solutions that integrate directly with the ERP. This allows every Sage Intacct customer to choose the best payroll solution for them. All of the marketplace partners have created seamless integrations with Sage Intacct.

By implementing both Sage Intacct and a marketplace partner payroll solution you will be creating a system that is tailored to your company, not someone else’s. This is unique when compared to other mid-market accounting and ERP solutions that are a suite of products that limit your functionality.

At rinehimerbaker, we have access to market leading payroll solutions and the expertise to implement them. We’ve helped our clients save time and money by eliminating manual entry and paper processes by leveraging the strengths of cloud-based payroll solutions. These solutions offer many of the benefits employers, and employees, are looking for today. Such as, access from anywhere anytime, employee self-service, mobile apps, compliance support, and advanced reporting tools.

Benefits of Integrating Your Payroll Solutions: 

· Real-time data that is easily accessible

· Ability to report on financial and statistical data for key metrics

      o Active employee headcount on your dashboard

      o Avg. cost of benefits per employee

· Robust departmental reporting

· Reduction of human error through automation

· Reduction in manual work returning hours of time to your team

Our team works with a few different payroll solutions to ensure that you get the perfect match for your company. Our top choices from Sage Intacct’s marketplace partners are Workforce Go! HCM, APS online, and ADP Workforce Now. If you want to keep it in the Sage family take a look at Sage People and keep your eye out for their upcoming integration into Sage Intacct.

Not sure if your current system can integrate? 

With Sage Intacct’s open API, if your current solution isn’t listed on Sage Intacct’s marketplace an integration can be built. This allows you to work with any software you choose. If it works for your accounting department, it works for our team, we can help you implement and go-live creating your own custom best-in-class solution. 

Contact our team at rinehimerbaker to learn how your business could benefit from an integrated payroll solution and a true cloud-based ERP .


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Sage Intacct Advantage Conference Recap

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The annual Sage Intacct Advantage was an amazing event again this year with great opportunities to learn about the future of finance, network with our customers and the Sage Intacct team, and enjoy Las Vegas! Below are our team’s top takeaways from this year’s conference.

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1) MemberClicks won a customer success Award- rinehimerbaker’s customer, MemberClicks was honored with the customer success award this year at Advantage! This award celebrates customers who have made dramatic improvements to their business and financial operations using Sage Intacct.  Congratulations Brent Stringer and team!

 

2) Change in Thinking-There was a strong focus on how the accounting function is moving from the age of information to the age of answers. Gone are the old ways of simply reporting “what happened”; now we are focused “why it happened” which is quickly moving to “what will happen next and what should we do about it”. This focus shows how finance teams are moving away from manual work and utilizing technology to deliver strategic value so that organizations can further their mission, grow and scale more quickly.

 

3) Eliminating the Close– Sage Intacct continues to look for innovative ways to make accountants lives easier. They are currently working on AI capabilities that are embedded directly into the Sage Intacct Intelligent GL.  The goal is to have continuous GL and eliminate the close. How? By using AI to accelerate the capture of data, to detect anomalies and ensure data is accurate and compliant, and to analyze and make intelligent decisions.

 

4) Sage People– This was an exciting announcement. Sage People is a new HR/benefit/onboarding/payroll solution that will be fully integrated with Sage Intacct. With this full integration, users will be able to quickly and easily view analytics, reports, graphs and dashboards related to the HR function.

 

5) Growth in Use– Currently 38% of the top CPA firms are using Sage Intacct. The continued growth of users shows how impactful Sage Intacct has been in revolutionizing the cloud accounting world throughout many different industries. The fastest growing verticals adopting Sage Intacct are hospitality and healthcare.

 

6) Orlando in 2020– Next year’s Advantage conference will be held in Orlando, FL the week of Oct 13th. For everyone that couldn’t make it this year, mark your calendars for next October. It will be a great week to learn, and network!

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Where is Cloud Accounting Technology Headed?

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What is cloud accounting technology?

 

Everyday companies make the decision to move from on-premise solutions to the cloud. With so many companies choosing to move to a cloud-based ERP solution to drive their finance department, what’s next with the cloud is always at the forefront of their minds. You are probably already familiar with the benefits of the cloud such as, not needing IT resources to support your finance function, one login with anywhere-anytime access, and API connections with other cloud solutions. For certain cloud solutions, you can also get real-time data, easy to create reports, company roll-ups, customized dashboards, dimensions to eliminate additional general ledgers, easy intercompany payments, and a notes section for communication between your team about changes.

Join us for a cocktail hour where we discuss where cloud accounting technology is headed

Where is cloud accounting headed?

 

As cloud accounting continues to develop the user interface and open API’s are a top priority for ERP solutions. Both of these factors are leading the way due to users continuing to want easy-clean way to run real-time reports and create an audit trail. The evolution of the user interface is a top priority. These changes will make or break companies’ decisions to move to their solution based on the quickness their employees can get through tasks.

 

The open API is an important factor for continued development as companies continue to want a best-in-class solution instead of a one-in-all solution. This means continuing to create seamless API connections on the back end with other top cloud software vendors.

 

Finally, the most exciting trend for cloud accounting technology is the use of artificial intelligence and the influence it will have in ERP solutions. Companies demand their technology to work for them and eliminate manual work, coding, and clerical employees will continue to lead to a need/desire for technology that can do more automatically.

 

Overall, over the past decade, cloud accounting technology has continued to go develop and change the landscape of finance departments. With the anywhere, anytime access, and consistently updates throughout the year, the technology can only allow for capabilities to drastically improve with less and less manual effort to accomplish tasks.

Sign up for our Cloud Accounting Technology Future webinar

Join us for our webinar on November 21st at 1 pm eastern time to deep dive into where cloud accounting technology is headed, and the updates we see with the software we provide every day to customers.