We Eat What We Feed: Kerr Consulting – a Case Study

By Eric Vickers

For over 25 years Kerr has operated as an end to end managed services administrator, specializing in business applications and cloud technology. We offer world class solutions to small, medium, and enterprise customers, solving their business challenges by designing innovative technology strategies.

Kerr Consulting wanted to better serve their customers by increasing resource utilization, streamlining and automating the billing process and improving the efficiency of the expense reporting and billing process. The first required step was to replace our current loosely integrated accounting, billing and expense reporting systems (Sage 300, Sage CRM, Certify Expense reporting) with a tightly integrated solution, Sage Intacct coupled with Nexonia expense reporting With over 50 employees spread across 20 offices we needed a cloud-based solution that could:

Kerr Consulting chose to implement Sage Intacct for its tightly integrated Project and Financial accounting capabilities that are based in the cloud. Previously projects were entered in Sage CRM which employees coded their time against and then an integration was run to bill the customers through Sage 300. Billing was done monthly except by client request for weekly billing. With Sage Intacct’s tight integration between Project Accounting and its Time and Billing modules, Kerr Consulting was able to move to weekly billing within a matter of months of implementation.

In addition to the billing change Dave Kerr, CEO said he was now able to get dashboards that provide the following real-time information:

With Nexonia Expense management and its tight integration with Sage Intacct we benefited from a more streamlined and easier expense approval process.

As an added benefit the internal implementation of Sage Intacct at Kerr gave our implementation team real world experience in implementing a proven cloud based solution in a complex project accounting and billing environment. According to Dan Krishman, Kerr Consulting’s Intacct Practice Manager we learned the following from the implementation:

To learn how Kerr Consulting and Sage Intacct can help you improve your accounting processes and your access to real time information please contact us!