Case Study: Archdiocese of Detroit achieves 25% finance productivity gain and faster monthly close with Sage Intacct

Archdiocese of Detroit sees the light with Sage Intacct

The Archdiocese of Detroit is a historic nonprofit overseeing more than 200 parishes and schools across southeast Michigan. Faced with a legacy accounting system that made tracking restricted and unrestricted funds cumbersome—requiring multiple manual journal entries and heavy spreadsheet work—the finance team spent roughly 85% of its time on bookkeeping instead of analysis, limiting the organization’s ability to focus on mission-driven activities.

Working with implementation partner RSM, the Archdiocese deployed Sage Intacct, simplified its chart of accounts, and set up multiple entities and automated workflows (including recurring invoices and daily bank transaction imports). The changes boosted finance productivity by about 25%, cut monthly close times by ~15% (trending toward 25%), improved forecasting by ~20%, reduced invoicing time ~20% and banking process time ~25%, and shifted the team’s effort to around 30% analytical work while lowering compliance risk for restricted funds.

Archdiocese of Detroit

Donald M. Genotti

Controller, Accounting & Treasury