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13 13 Surviving with Rear-View Mirror Reporting and Manual Compliance The wrong financial reporting system can require too much manual data entry and even force you to transfer data into Excel for further manipulation. When your finance team is in survival mode, you just try to produce the basic reports your organization needs today, this week, or this month. Everything happens in a crunch. With the wrong financial systems, information must be entered manually into different systems. Many accounting systems are only capable of rear-view mirror reporting—backward looking month-end financial packets that don't provide any real-time insights. Today, nonprofits need access to more and better information than yesterday's news. How can your team access the data required to gather insights, do strategic analysis, and make recommendations that support your mission? Ascending to Excellence Source: GWSCPA, Nonprofit Accounting Basics, Microsoft Excel Table Tips for Managing Lists, June 24, 2013 Financial Management with Excel

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• Surviving in a Complex and Stressful Environment
• "There's a level of complexity here that is equivalent to what a major for-profit organization deals with."
• Surviving with Limited Resources
• Getting Beyond Survival, So Your Nonprofit Can Thrive
• The Basecamp of Nonprofit Accounting: The Chart of Accounts
• Why Chart of Accounts and Reporting Is Hard to Manage for Nonprofits
• Surviving the Traditional, Linear-Based Chart of Accounts
• Thriving with a Logic-Based Chart of Accounts
• "When I arrived we had 56,000 accounts in our chart of accounts. By leveraging Sage Intacct's dimension capabilities, we dramatically streamlined to just 100 accounts and can now tag transactions with detailssuch as specific programs and locations."
• Reporting and Compliance with a View
• Surviving with Rear-View Mirror Reporting and Manual Compliance
• Thriving with Future-Focused Financials and Automated Compliance
• Dashboards for Stakeholders
• Role-Based Dashboards
• Measuring What Matters―Outcomes and Mission Impact
• Automated Reporting of Outcomes
• "Before, everyone was in the dark, but with Sage Intacct it's a whole new world. Department managers can see precisely how they are doing with the click of a button... As a result, people are controlling their costs proactively, the organization's overall
• Find Your True North and Thrive
• Educational Resources to Help You Make the Right Decision
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