Insights
Pragmatic, opinionated, locally aware. No filler — just the answers we'd give a CFO over coffee.
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Featured insight
If you sell software on a subscription, you have a revenue recognition problem long before you have an accounting team big enough to handle it manually. This is how Sage Intacct's Contract & Revenue Management module handles ASC 606 / IFRS 15 for SA SaaS companies.
Operations
Accounts payable is where finance teams either earn their time back or lose it permanently. This is how AP automation in Sage Intacct works end-to-end — from invoice capture to payment file — for an SA mid-market business.
Migration & Implementation
Sage Intacct's pricing is enterprise software pricing, which means it is rarely obvious from the website. This is what an SA mid-market organisation should expect to pay — for licensing, implementation, and ongoing support — in ZAR.
Migration & Implementation
Moving off a legacy desktop accounting system is the single most common engagement we run for South African mid-market organisations. This is the 90-day migration plan we use, with what to expect at each stage and where the work actually lives.
Compliance & Local Context
B-BBEE reporting in South Africa relies on accurate procurement, ownership, and employment data that finance teams typically extract manually at quarter-end. Sage Intacct dimensions can carry the data continuously — so the B-BBEE conversation becomes a query, not a project.
Compliance & Local Context
FICA and POPIA compliance is mostly a process question. Cloud ERP can help — but only if you design the customer and supplier onboarding workflows, the access controls, and the audit trail with both regimes in mind from day one.
Compliance & Local Context
Sage Intacct is a US-headquartered platform but works well for South African finance teams — provided it is configured for the SA context. This is the SARS, VAT, and IFRS configuration playbook we use for SA implementations.
Multi-entity & Consolidation
If your finance team is running a separate spreadsheet to track intercompany journals between entities, you're carrying a risk your auditor sees. This is how we configure Sage Intacct to make intercompany journals self-balancing, self-matching, and self-eliminating on consolidation.
Multi-entity & Consolidation
Foreign exchange in cloud ERP is one of those areas where small configuration choices have large reporting consequences. This is what we configure in Sage Intacct for South African groups operating across ZAR, USD, GBP, and the SADC currencies — and what most finance teams get wrong.
Multi-entity & Consolidation
Multi-entity consolidation is where most South African finance teams discover whether their ERP earns its keep. This is the playbook we'd use to set up Sage Intacct for a typical SA group — from ownership structure to currency translation adjustments — and the design decisions that pay back for the next decade.
Most of what we write here is the playbook for a real engagement. If anything you've read lines up with your finance team's reality, let's talk.
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