See how Sage Intacct applies AI and automation to finance. Automate accounts payable, timesheets, and consolidations to save time, reduce costs, and give your team reliable insights
You know the routine: hours spent entering invoices, fixing errors, and managing spreadsheets. These tasks drain your time, add costs, and make it harder to focus on the bigger priorities.
AI offers a practical way forward. It doesn’t replace your finance team — it works alongside them, taking care of repetitive processes so they can focus on analysis and decision-making. The result is faster workflows, fewer errors, and more time spent on the work that moves your business forward.
Sage Intacct brings this into practice. Its built-in AI and automation features are designed to help you save time and money by streamlining the tasks that slow finance teams down. Over the next sections, we’ll walk through five ways Sage Intacct uses AI to make finance simpler, faster, and more efficient for businesses like yours.
AI-Powered Accounts Payable Automation
The challenge
If your team is still keying in invoice details line by line, you’ll know how much time it consumes. Mistakes slip through, duplicate invoices get paid, and staff end up tied to admin instead of analysis.
The solution
With Sage Intacct, you don’t need to handle invoices this way. Its AI automatically reads each invoice, captures the key details, and applies the right coding for you. It also spots issues like duplicates before they turn into costly errors. Your team just reviews and approves — the heavy lifting is done.
The benefits
- Process invoices up to 80% faster
- Improve accuracy as the AI learns your patterns
- Avoid duplicate payments with built-in checks
- Free your team from admin so they can focus on higher-value work
General Ledger Outlier Detection
The challenge
When your team is posting thousands of journal entries, errors are easy to miss. A miscoded expense or an unusually large transaction can slip through, only to be found weeks later during close or audit. That means wasted time fixing mistakes and, in some cases, financial risk.
The solution
Sage Intacct’s General Ledger Outlier Detection uses AI to learn your organisation’s normal posting patterns. It then automatically flags transactions that don’t fit. Instead of manually combing through every line, your team can quickly review the entries that need attention and correct them before they affect your financials.
The benefits
- Spot anomalies instantly, without waiting until month-end
- Reduce the time spent reviewing thousands of entries
- Prevent errors and potential compliance issues
- Manage by exception — focusing only on the transactions that need attention
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Sage Intelligent Time
The challenge
Timesheets are often inaccurate and incomplete. When people log hours days after the work is done, details are forgotten and billable time is lost. For finance teams, that means missed revenue, slower billing cycles, and more time spent chasing down corrections.
The solution
Sage Intelligent Time uses AI to automatically capture activity from calendars, emails, and other tools, then suggests timesheet entries for your team. Instead of reconstructing their week from memory, employees simply review and confirm. Finance teams gain complete, accurate data without the usual back and forth.
The benefits
Multi-Entity Consolidation & Automation
The challenge
Closing the books across multiple entities is one of the most time-consuming jobs for finance teams. Manual consolidations mean managing spreadsheets, adjusting for inter-company transactions, and converting currencies by hand. It slows down reporting and increases the risk of errors.
The solution
Sage Intacct automates this process. With one click, it consolidates financials across all your entities — handling currency conversions, eliminations, and roll-ups instantly. Instead of days spent reconciling, you have a consolidated view ready in seconds.
The benefits
- Cut close times by days or even weeks
- Eliminate errors caused by manual spreadsheets
- Access consolidated financials in real time for quicker decisions
- Free up finance teams to focus on analysis, not reconciliation
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Sage AI Copilot
The challenge
Routine finance tasks such as pulling reports or drafting payment reminders can take hours each month. Even with automation in place, creating the right report or preparing communications often means extra steps and manual effort.
The solution
Sage AI Copilot acts as a digital assistant built into Intacct. Using natural language, you can ask it to generate reports, create dashboards, or draft customer communications. It analyses your financial data instantly and delivers insights or ready-to-use outputs, cutting out the back and forth usually involved in these tasks.
The benefits
- Create reports, dashboards, and charts in seconds with natural language commands
- Draft invoices, reminders, or dunning emails instantly
- Gain on-demand insights to support decision-making
- Reduce time spent on routine work so your team can stay focused on strategic priorities
The Impact of AI on Finance Teams
Sage Intacct’s AI and automation features are designed to support your finance team. Repetitive tasks are handled in the background, giving your people the time to focus on planning, analysis, and decision-making.
Automated processes provide cleaner data, fewer errors, and faster access to accurate information. Tools such as Outlier Detection and Copilot add assurance by highlighting anomalies and surfacing insights the moment they are needed.
For your business, this translates into quicker reporting cycles, reduced costs, and stronger decisions. For your finance team, it creates the capacity to concentrate on work that moves the organisation forward.
Conclusion
AI has become an essential part of financial management. Within Sage Intacct, it handles the routine work that slows teams down, while providing cleaner data and insights that support better decisions.
From automated invoice processing to intelligent timesheets, consolidation, and Copilot, these features save time, reduce costs, and help finance teams focus on driving the business forward.
If you want to see how Sage Intacct can support your team, the next step is simple: book a Discovery Call with Accord Consulting. Our specialists will walk you through the features that matter most to your organisation and show you how to get lasting value from your financial system.
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