Simplify your financial tracking, analysis and reporting for asset management with our robust Asset Management Financial Software that allows for bulk data uploading of asset information, and the ability to align with your General Ledger and Statements of Financial Activities. Robust financial reporting and analysis equip financial officers with the essential tools to effectively manage an organization’s assets and deliver clear, well-informed insights for decision-makers.
Features and Benefits
Asset Financial History and Analysis
Analyze Financial Information Over Years: Analyze how asset costs have evolved over time, incorporating various filters to allow for increased refinement and more thorough interpretations.
Cumulative Financial Analysis: View and report on long-term spending habits regarding specific assets, and how this asset spending correlates to overall organization spending and asset management.
Organization Insights at a Glance: Understand how asset management financially shapes your organization, supporting well-founded choices.
Intelligent Asset Oversight
Simplified Asset Data Entry: Easily input and manage details for various asset types, including equipment and vehicles, buildings or facilities, roads, land water and sewer—improving workflow efficiency by reducing repeated data entry and administrative burden.
Extensive Recordkeeping: Fill in key fields like specific depreciation schedules, acquisition and disposal dates, and additional financial information in a centralized location allowing for faster reporting and analysis and improved consistency in documentation.
Keyword-Based Categorization: Assign specific keywords to categorize assets, providing advanced filtering and analytics for improved reporting and insights, all while accelerating task completion and improving accountability.
Statement of Financial Activity Summaries and Analysis
In-Depth Asset Reporting: Gain a complete overview of asset financial activities within your organization by utilizing customizable filters for asset type, keywords, date ranges, attribute descriptions, operational statuses, and operational years.
Asset Summaries: View aggregated data on asset types, operational years, and keywords, offering a high-level snapshot of asset financial trends.
Asset Status Highlighting: View a compiled list of asset operational statuses for review, fostering informed discussions and strategic planning.
Thorough Keyword Monitoring: Leverage a broad keyword list to capture various aspects of community financial asset management, effectively providing detailed tracking and analysis of your data.
Exportable Data: Effortlessly export asset reports into Excel for further analysis, sharing, or recordkeeping.
Smart Report Creation
Customizable and Time-Saving Templates: Access a variety of pre-designed templates, tailored to specific asset types, minimizing manual effort while producing consistent and accurate finalized reports.
One-Click Simplicity: Easily generate summaries and letters with a single click, pulling data from custom fields to quickly produce complete, ready-to-use documents.
Detailed Output: Receive fully polished reports that include all the required fields from asset acquisition to disposal, ensuring that no vital data is left out. Perfect for both internal use and stakeholder sharing, these reports contain everything entered into the system.
Role-Based Access & Coordination
Integrated Data Accessibility: Access connected data from different departments, maintaining consistency and reliability across all roles.
Customizable Role Permissions: System access can be fine-tuned to match user roles, with configurable permissions that grant or limit access to specific features, asset types, and reports, enhancing departmental security and precision.
Multi-User System Access: Support concurrent use by multiple team members, facilitating smooth coordination between administrators, finance, public works, and the rest of your team within a shared environment.
Departmental Data Integration: Share crucial information and send notifications seamlessly between departments, keeping data consistently accurate and up-to-date throughout the system.
Geospatial Community Asset Management (Optional Add-on)
Enhanced Asset Layer Visualization: Toggle through layers representing assets like signs, culverts, and roads, each with distinct symbology, allowing for intuitive identification.
Integrated Mapping for Deeper Insights: Analyze development and asset layers simultaneously to uncover relationships and trends, enabling data-driven planning decisions.
Detailed Asset Information at a Click: Select any asset to reveal details such as condition, cost, and maintenance history, facilitating decision-making with lifecycle insights.
Precise Asset Positioning: Zoom into asset layers for accurate location tracking, providing a comprehensive view of your infrastructure.
Case Study: Enhancing Organization Financial Asset Management Through Our Solution
Background
As a Saskatchewan-based company specializing in community governance solutions, we recognized the need for a comprehensive software platform to streamline financial asset management processes. After working with existing software packages provided by other providers, and sharing the challenges of using those software packages, Northbound decided to build our own software to provide easy-to-use, yet robust financial asset management to organizations of any size.
Challenge
Organizations often face challenges in managing assets financial information efficiently and effectively. Manual processes and disparate systems can lead to delays, errors, and increased administrative burden. Additionally, asset management can be complex and time-consuming without the right tools in place.
Solution
Our asset management financial software provides a robust solution to address these challenges. With powerful analysis capabilities, intuitive asset financial workflows, and centralized asset management features, our software empowers organizations to streamline their financial asset processes and improve operational efficiency.
Implementation
Internally, we’ve struggled with other asset management financial software for many years, causing our team to build our software into our workflow for assisting organizations with year-end audits, reconciliations to statements of financial activities, and robust analytics and reporting. The transition was smooth, thanks to the user-friendly interface and comprehensive support provided by our team. As we experienced firsthand the benefits of our software, we were confident in its potential to transform asset management financial processes for our clients.
Result
Since implementing our software internally:
Asset data import processing time has decreased by 80%, leading to faster project approvals and consistent reporting. Decreases management administrative time by 20%, by reducing duplication of data entry and increasing sharing between parties.
Asset management has become more efficient, with real-time tracking and exports to external (and often existing) maintenance scheduling reducing downtime and operational costs.
Our team and clients have saved valuable time and resources previously spent on manual data entry and coordination tasks.
Client Rollout
Encouraged by our success, we are excited to offer our software to organizations as a solution to their asset management financial needs. By opening it up for clients to use, we aim to empower organizations across Canada and beyond to streamline their asset management financial processes, save time and money, and drive positive outcomes for their communities.
Conclusion
Our experience using our asset management financial software internally has demonstrated its effectiveness in streamlining asset management processes. We are confident that organizations will benefit from its features and capabilities, and we look forward to partnering with them to achieve their asset management objectives.
If you're interested in learning more about how our software can benefit your organization, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're here to support you every step of the way.