Services
Blackbaud's The Financial Edge
BlumShapiro is a registered, sales and service partner with Blackbaud “The Financial Edge.” We are certified to perform new installations and ongoing support for Financial Edge clients.
Financial Edge product highlights include:
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Strategic Financial Management - turn abstract numbers into clear forecasting and planning information including:
- Managing Multiple Funds
- Tracking Costs
- Crossing Fiscal Years
- Budgeting
- Reporting
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Integration
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Accountability/Stewardship - build your stakeholders’ trust…and keep it by:
- Sharing timely, accurate information with key stakeholders
- Ensuring donated funds are accounted for and protected
- Quickly responding to your auditor’s requests for supporting detail
- Verifying to donors that gifts were used as intended
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Producing easy-to-understand, presentation-quality reports and analyses
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Budgeting/Planning - stretch your resources by:
- Turning your budget into a planning and forecasting tool
- Taking advantage of powerful budgeting, in-depth analysis and reporting features that replace spreadsheets and cumbersome, error-prone third-party tools
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Budgeting as many years into the future as needed so your organization can prioritize expenditures, assess funding needs and make comparisons across fiscal years
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Spending - tighten the reigns by putting your spending on auto-pilot by:
- Moving critical procurement processes online, including requisitions, purchase orders, approvals and common product selections — to reduce errors and save time
- Consolidating multiple small orders to realize quantity discounts
- Keeping close watch on budgets by determining the availability of funds using budget checking and commitment control functionality
- Leveraging ready-to-go reports to quickly analyze your purchases
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Approving procurement requests anytime, anywhere for maximum convenience
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Collections - decrease time spent collecting, and increase time spent fundraising
The following modules are available as part of “The Financial Edge”:
| General Ledger | Cash Management |
| Allocation Management | Consolidation Management |
| Budget Management | Fixed Assets |
| Projects, Grants and Endowments | Cash Receipts |
| Accounts Payable | Payroll |
| Purchase Orders | Student Billing |
| Accounts Receivable | PaperSave |
Contact Jim Clarkson for more information or to set up a demonstration.
