Nonprofit Hagar grows internationally with Acumatica
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
- Asia
Country
- Afghanistan
- Cambodia
- United States
- Vietnam
Product
- Acumatica
Tech Stack
- Cloud-based ERP
- Excel
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Hagar International is an international Christian organization dedicated to recovery of extreme human rights abuses, particularly human trafficking, gender-based violence, and sexual exploitation. The nonprofit was founded in response to extreme domestic and community violence affecting women and children in post-civil war Cambodia in 1994. It offers trauma counseling, legal and medical support, community care, education, job training and career placement. In 2008, Hagar opened an office in Afghanistan to support Afghan women and children facing gender-based violence and human trafficking. The nonprofit later expanded into Hong Kong and Singapore and now has offices in 10 countries.
The Challenge
Hagar International, a rapidly growing nonprofit organization, was struggling with a mix of Peachtree, QuickBooks, and Mind Your Own Business accounting software and various Excel spreadsheets that couldn’t handle the nonprofit’s growing international needs. The organization needed an affordable, easy-to-use solution that could handle multiple currencies and divisions with ease. The software also needed to accommodate a complex General Ledger account structure, track Hagar’s many different programs, and provide rich reports. Hagar needed a financial system that supported fund accounting as well as traditional commercial accounting.
The Solution
Hagar CFO Ruth Ellison chose Acumatica, a cloud-based ERP solution, in late 2011. Acumatica offered built-in integration tools with other software systems and an employee portal which allows Hagar to connect all staff to the system without any additional user fees. Acumatica’s flexibility allowed Hagar to handle the complex structure and reporting easily. Because of its international nature, Hagar also needed to run different country locations in their native currencies; however, the headquarters’ office also needed an easy way to consolidate those figures in a standard currency for overall agency reporting, and then convert them back to create reports for governments in their native currencies. Acumatica’s currency module converts transactions into any currencies that are set up by the user and reporting can be done in any of the set up currencies.
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