Intacct clIent profIle - assocIatIon for HealtHcare pHIlantHropy

Intacct Client Profile

Customer: Association for Healthcare PhilanthropyWebsite: www.ahp.orgLocation: International Headquarters in Falls Church, VAPartner: Brittenford Systems

Customer Profile:Established in 1967, the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy is an international, not-for-profit professional organization dedicated to developing the men and women who encourage charity in North America’s health care organizations. From executive directors and chief development officers to major gift officers, annual campaign managers, event coordinators and grant writers, their 5,000 members represent more than 2,200 health care facilities in the United States and Canada. In addition to serving as their members’ source for education, networking opportunities, and research on health care fundraising, AHP advocates on behalf of nonprofit hospitals and monitors legislative and regulatory issues.

Project Description:AHP was using Microsoft Dynamics SL to maintain their accounting books and Microsoft FRx for financial reporting—and several workarounds had been put in place to help get the data from point A to point B. “We needed a more user-friendly solution,” says Lynn Murphy, AHP’s Chief Financial Officer and sole user of the tools. “It didn’t make sense to have large, cumbersome accounting software,” she continues. “It was much more than we needed and we didn’t want to pay for all of that.” What’s more, AHP needed their accounting system to accommodate multiple currencies and help them streamline the management of their two entities.

Plus, AHP was in the process of moving their organizational data and processes to the cloud to eliminate the need buy new hardware to keep up with software updates. “New software doesn’t run on old machines anymore!” explains Murphy, who found that Intacct’s cloud accounting software was a simpler, more streamlined solution that would better meet their needs

Client Perspective:“Brittenford was already our SL support and had always been very helpful,” says Murphy. “They made our transition to Intacct easy. We had a weekly meeting that kept us on target,” she says. “Our timeline was very smooth and went according to plan.”

Brittenford implemented Intacct core modules for AHP, leveraging the Intacct QuickStart Financial Non-profit template that includes pre-built and customizable dashboards, reports, and analytics. “Once our data was in the new system, Brittenford showed me how to get out what I needed,” Murphy says. And since Intacct’s upgrades are incremental and seamless, they are not a huge disruption or expense—and it’s easy for Murphy to make necessary adjustments to the way she does processing. “Intacct’s product is generally intuitive,” she explains, “but Brittenford walked me through anything that wasn’t clear so I’m able to make changes on my own. Those old workarounds are not necessary anymore, and,” Murphy adds, “the solution has been easy to use. I’m enjoying it!”

Intacct clIent profIle - assocIatIon for HealtHcare pHIlantHropy

Key Requirements:• Fulfill the need for a cost-effective financial management system• Manage multiple business entities and currencies more effectively• Streamline the accounting and financial management processes in the cloud

Key Challenges:• Limited client resources available for implementation• Extracting data from Microsoft Dynamics SL for Intacct

Key Outcomes:• Easily consolidate the financials of separate entities with multiple currencies• Use of Intacct smart import templates made data loading easy and efficient• Eliminate software maintenance and upgrade costs

About The Association for Healthcare PhilanthropyThe Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, established in 1967, is a nonprofit organization whose more than 5,000 members direct philanthropic programs in 2,000 of North America’s nonprofit health care providers. Hospitals, health care systems and related facilities for which AHP members raise charitable funds provide essential, comprehensive medical services to their communities, as well as wellness programs, mobile health vans, mammography screenings, hearing and eye exams, and other community-based health care services. Learn more at www.ahp.org.

About Brittenford Brittenford Systems is a nationally recognized consulting firm that specializes in delivering financial management and business intelligence solutions as well as CIO Advisory Services to mid-market companies. Based in the Washington, DC area, we help our clients leverage technology solutions to improve business processes and productivity, reduce operational costs, and get timely financial information so they can run their businesses more efficiently.

At Brittenford, we understand that managing financial information effectively is the backbone of a business. With our extensive industry experience and unique approach, we help non-profit, project-based, and international organizations implement and support Microsoft Dynamics GP, Dynamics SL, and cloud-based Intacct and Host Analytics. For more information about Brittenford Systems, please visit www.brittenford.com or call 703-860-6945.