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Mastering Sage Intacct General Ledger: Features, Benefits, and Best Practices

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Key Features of Sage Intacct General Ledger

Packed with features designed to streamline the financial management process, let’s take a look at some of the key features in Sage Intacct’s general ledger.

The Role of the General Ledger

Multi-Dimensional Capability

The innovative design of the general ledger allows you to use dimension values instead of segments, where you can track financial data from multiple sources.

These values include locations, products, funds, or any other category. You can then capture the total in your general ledger account.

Pre-Built Dimensions

Sage Intacct makes it easy to use its multi-dimensional capability by including pre-built dimensions for projects, customers, locations, departments, vendors, items, employees, and classes.

This also serves to streamline your chart of accounts since you won’t have to add additional accounts for each category.

Scalability

One of the top reasons business owners switch accounting software is because they outgrow their current application.

Sage Intacct’s general ledger includes multi-entity management capability, so you can add branches, locations, or additional entities to the application easily.

Real-Time Posting

All transactions entered in Sage Intacct’s general ledger are posted immediately, with account balances always reflecting the most current transaction totals.

User-Defined Dimensions

If your need to track information goes beyond the pre-built dimensions included with Sage Intacct’s general ledger, you can also create custom configurations for more in-depth tracking.

Multi-Book General Ledger Capability

Sage Intacct’s general ledger can be set up using cash basis accounting, accrual accounting, or both, allowing you to compare financial results side-by-side.

User-Defined Books

If you’re a global company, you can create individual books that adhere to GAAP, IFRS, or local standards to ensure compliance regardless of where your company is located.

Flexible Reporting Capability

Sage Intacct’s general ledger features an account group option, budget accounting for comparing budgets to actual results, and the ability to store and access statistical data for additional reporting purposes or measuring key metrics.  

Flexible Journal Entry Management

You can specify which journals need approvals and automatically route them to assigned approvers, import journal entry data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and other applications, and create and utilize templates to streamline the journal entry process.

Use of AI in Sage Intacct

Sage Intacct Financials is powered by Intelligent GL, designed to streamline the entire financial process by eliminating manual tasks while defining the workflow strategy that works best for your business.

Using Intelligent GL, you can also assign smart rules to expedite the approval process. The GL also includes the GL Outlier Detection feature and offers multi-currency management, including automatic currency rate tables and currency conversions.  

Key Features of Sage Intacct GL

Sage Intacct GL Outlier Detection: Enhancing Accuracy & Compliance

One of the most interesting features found in Intelligent GL is the GL Outlier Assistant, which is designed to identify unusual patterns or anomalies in data.

Having a method to detect unusual activity automatically helps identify errors and inconsistencies and can even help pinpoint fraud.

The GL Outlier Assistant works in three separate stages:

Intelligent GL & Outlier Detection

  1. The Define Stage

The define stage is where you select and preview the data that you wish to be included in the detection process. This can include GL transactions, journal entries, and other data.

When creating the define stage, you can set various parameters, including account type, date range, and transaction amounts.

  1. The Learn Stage

The learn stage uses machine learning to create models that will be used during detection by using historical data and algorithms designed to detect patterns and identify potential issues.

When creating a model, users can identify and set relevant fields to be included in the detection process.

  1. The Review and Detection Stage

Once the first two stages are complete, the GL Outlier Assistant identifies the outliers and allows users to review them for accuracy and make any necessary corrections.

In addition, users are provided with additional options, such as creating alerts for quick future detection.

For instance, if you typically have $5,000 in depreciation expense, but the current period’s depreciation expense is $7,500, the GL Outlier Assistant would flag that journal entry.

If you have purchased additional assets and have increased your depreciation expense, you would do nothing, but if the entry is incorrect, you can correct it immediately.

Benefits of Using Sage Intacct General Ledger

Sage Intacct’s general ledger offers numerous benefits to users, beginning with the inclusion of both AI and machine learning capability, which helps to streamline the entire workflow process and eliminate both manual approvals and manual data entry.

Benefits of Using Sage Intacct GL

The GL also provides users a level of flexibility not frequently seen, which allows you to add additional companies, departments, or locations as needed.

Multi-book capability keeps your business compliant with multiple regulatory agencies, and real-time visibility means that general ledger reports are always accurate.

Finally, Sage Intacct’s GL allows you to track the information you need, including the ability to create account groups for more efficient report capability.

Finally, Sage Intacct’s GL allows you to track the information you need, including the ability to create account groups for more efficient report capability.

Best Practices for Optimizing Sage Intacct GL

Like any application, Sage Intacct GL works best when you adhere to best practices.

Here are a few suggestions:

  • Design a clear chart of accounts with appropriate sub-ledgers.
  • Use dimensions to analyze data at multiple levels.
  • Run the GL Outlier Assistant regularly to spot issues or fraud.
  • Use month-end checklists to ensure all transactions are complete before close.
  • Customize GL and dimension reports for efficient financial reporting.
  • Leverage Sage Intacct’s AI tools, including Intelligent GL, Smart Rules, and Smart Events, to automate tasks and alerts.
  • Automate multi-entity management to streamline consolidation and eliminate manual intercompany entries.

Integrate PLANERGY with Sage Intacct

Sage Intacct’s web services API enables seamless integration with applications like PLANERGY.

PLANERGY + Sage Intacct Integration

During setup, PLANERGY professionals help define which data is shared between the two applications. You also assign employee permission levels, such as creating, viewing, updating, or deleting data.

Once complete, you can continue to utilize PLANERGY’s key features. These include managing and purchase orders, automated three-way matching to ensure invoice and payment accuracy, as well as automated invoice approval.

To guard against overspending, you’ll want to take advantage of PLANERGY’s spend management features, providing approvers with the information needed to make more informed accounts payable decisions.

Once payables have been approved for payment, simply export the data to Sage Intacct for processing.

Integrating PLANERGY with Sage Intacct also provides enhanced reporting capability, with access to comprehensive reporting tools such as core financials and spend management reports.

Alongside this, it offers user-defined financial dashboards that show current and upcoming spending levels.

Integrating PLANERGY and Sage Intacct provides you with easy access to a cloud-based general ledger accounting software offering real-time visibility powered by AI and machine learning, which streamlines the entire workflow process.

For businesses that want to spend less time on manual business processes and more time growing their business, this partnership could be the solution.

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