New Intacct Alliance Provides Invaluable Benefits to AICPA Members, their Businesses and Clients. The AICPA and CPA2Biz have formed a new alliance with Intacct, a market and technology leader in on-demand financial management and accounting applications. This alliance will help businesses adopt “cloud computing” to improve their financial performance and profitability, gain new operational efficiencies and make more informed and faster business decisions.

Delivered online via a best-in-class Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, Intacct's feature-rich, easy-to-use applications offer a robust solution for many different sizes and types of businesses. Core modules include: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, Order Entry, Purchase Order, Employee Expenses, Standard Reporting, Centralized Dashboards and more. Intacct’s applications can help businesses:

• Improve organizational performance and decision making — by allowing an always-current overview of the organization’s cash position, revenue and outstanding accounts receivable (A/R).
• Make finance more productive — using Web-based reporting and analysis from summary dashboards, improving financial reporting and allowing controlled access to those in the organization who need it.
• Help businesses achieve faster financial closes — leveraging the Internet to streamline financial reporting, deploy real-time consolidation, improve workflow and process scheduling and ease collaboration.
• Improve lead to cash cycle — delivering seamless information and business processes from lead to cash and quote to collect across both sales and finance, including seamless integration with Salesforce.com.
• Shorten days’ sales outstanding — automating billing and collections management.
• Optimize cash management — allowing you to report, analyze and allocate cash in real-time, with both local and corporate visibility and control.
• Improve compliance and transparency — providing broad support for accounting standards, federal and industry regulations and improved administration of internal controls and segregation of duties.
• Reduce risk and provides a level of security, data recoverability and data access — runs in IBM's Fortune 100-class, highly secure data center with automatic and continuous backups, disaster recovery via SunGard and 24x7x365 operations.

With more efficient financial reporting and less IT overhead to manage, AICPA members in business and industry will find that Intacct enables them to focus on the business issues that matter most. Visit www.cpa2biz.com/IntacctBenefits to find out more about the many ways in which Intacct can enhance your business and also to learn about preferred pricing available to AICPA members. AICPA members who work in public practice can visit www.cpa2biz.com/Intacct to learn how to leverage this on-demand financial application and deliver added value to their client relationships.