Case Study: The Answer Company achieves 90% faster budgeting and regains 80% of CFO time with Sage Intacct

The Answer Company remedies its financial complexities with Sage Intacct

The Answer Company is a Canadian ERP consultancy of about 90 people that helps clients deploy and optimize financial management solutions. Rapid growth and a broader services portfolio created financial complexity, but the firm’s prior NetSuite stack (core, Planning & Budgeting, OpenAir) had poor user acceptance and forced the CFO to spend roughly 80% of his time pulling and reconciling data in Excel, making budgeting slow, inflexible, and manually intensive.

Replacing NetSuite with Sage Intacct (core GL and Projects) and Sage Intacct Budgeting and Planning delivered flexible scenario modeling, seamless data flow, and monthly budget vs. actuals reporting. The firm eliminated the manual workload that consumed 80% of the CFO’s time, is on track for about 90% faster budget creation, gained clearer project profitability and utilization insights, and expects further automation to save additional hours weekly—enabling faster, data-driven decision making.

The Answer Company

George Lawton

Chief Financial Officer