Consulting and advisory firms need complete visibility into project performance, resources, and financial results to remain profitable and scalable. Sage Intacct combines AI-powered financial management with advanced project accounting capabilities to help firms streamline operations, improve decision-making, and drive growth.
The Challenges For Growing Consulting Firms
Consulting and advisory organisations operate in a unique environment, having to manage:
- Multiple projects across different clients
- Complex billing arrangements and revenue recognition requirements
- Resource allocation across teams and locations
- Profitability tracking at client, project, and service-line level
- Increasing reporting demands from leadership and stakeholders
Without the right systems in place, finance teams can spend significant time consolidating data, reconciling entities, and manually producing reports instead of providing strategic insights.
What makes Sage Intacct a good fit for Consulting Firms?
For consulting and advisory firms, success depends on balancing profitable projects, efficient resource utilisation, and clear visibility across multiple clients, entities, and service lines. As firms grow, spreadsheets and legacy accounting systems often struggle to keep pace with increasingly complex operations.
Sage Intacct provides a modern, AI-powered financial management platform designed to help consulting and advisory firms gain deeper insights, automate manual processes, and make faster, more informed decisions. From multi-entity reporting to project profitability and resource management, Sage Intacct enables firms to focus less on administration and more on delivering value to clients.
5 Reasons Consulting Firms Choose Sage Intacct:
- To Simplify Multi-Entity Management
As firms expand across regions, service lines, or legal entities, financial reporting can become increasingly complex. Sage Intacct simplifies multi-entity management with automated consolidations, intercompany transactions, and real-time reporting from a single cloud platform. Teams can access accurate, consolidated financial data without relying on spreadsheets or manual reconciliation processes.
- Improved Project Profitability
Understanding project profitability is essential for consulting firms. Sage Intacct provides real-time visibility into project costs, revenue, budgets, utilisation, and margins, enabling firms to identify profitable clients and address issues before they impact performance. With automated project accounting and detailed reporting, leaders gain the insights needed to make more informed business decisions.
- To Optimise Resource Utilisation
People are a consulting firm’s greatest asset. Sage Intacct helps organisations improve resource planning by connecting project, financial, and operational data. Firms can track utilisation, forecast capacity, and allocate resources more effectively, ensuring the right people are assigned to the right projects at the right time. Intacct enables finance teams to do more without additional headcount.
4. AI-Powered Insights for Better Decisions
Sage Intacct’s AI-powered capabilities help finance teams automate routine processes, uncover trends, and access actionable insights faster. By reducing manual reporting and improving visibility across the business, consulting firms can focus more on strategic growth and delivering exceptional client outcomes.
5. To Identify and Fix Issues Quickly
Real time tracking of revenue, budgets, costs and utilisation enables finance teams to monitor projects throughout every stage and milestone, making it easier to spot issues early and rectify them.
Find Out More about Intacct with Acuity24
Acuity24 specialise in helping businesses implement and utilise Sage Intacct to streamline processes and improve efficiency as they grow.
We are an award winning Sage Business Partner, recognised for our innovative service delivery and support. As a member of the Sage Centurions Club, we’ve helped well over 100 customers migrate to Sage Intacct while providing fixed price services and unlimited support options to suit specific business needs.
Find out how we’ve helped customers across a variety of sectors in some of our Customer Case Studies.
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