Configuration around projects
Define project and task structures, permissions, time and expense approvals, billing requirements, and the reports each audience needs.
Unanet
Unanet implementation, integration, and ongoing support.
Unanet implementation, data migration, integrations, reporting, training, and ongoing support for government contractors and project-based firms.
Build your implementation around business priorities.
An initial assessment identifies configuration gaps, migration and reconciliation needs, reporting priorities, and responsibilities for testing and approval.
Review the current edition, licensing, project records, and reporting requirements before setting the scope. Support can begin with a new implementation, a migration, or an existing environment that needs cleanup.
From configuration to the recurring close
Data migration and opening balances
Map the records, assess completeness, test migration, and reconcile opening balances and project information before cutover.
Payroll and expense interfaces
Review supported APIs or imports with providers, test representative records and failures, and reconcile labor and expenses through to the ledger.
Funding, costs, and reporting
Build reports for funded value, funding burn, cost incurred, customer billing, and receivables. Reconcile report totals to source records.
Training for the actual tasks
Walk employees and reviewers through time entry, approvals, project administration, billing, and close activities using agreed scenarios.
Ongoing support
Scope project and user administration, reporting changes, issue review, and refresher training as the business adds people or contracts.
Moving to Unanet from Deltek Costpoint or QuickBooks
Most migrations start with mapping the chart of accounts, projects, labor categories, and open balances. We test the conversion against a closed period, reconcile opening balances before cutover, and keep the historical detail you need for incurred cost submissions and audits.
- Chart of accounts, project, and labor category mapping
- Test conversion against a closed period
- Opening balance and open-project reconciliation
- Historical data retained for incurred cost and audit support
Set readiness checks before cutover.
- Discover. Review processes, data, access, dependencies, and responsibilities.
- Configure and migrate. Prepare the environment, map records, and reconcile the test results.
- Test and train. Verify complete workflows with the people who will use them.
- Go live and stabilize. Confirm the criteria, coordinate the cutover, and resolve exceptions.
Timing follows the scope, data readiness, system dependencies, and the availability of your reviewers.
For government contractors
Connect project-based month-end close, timekeeping and labor distribution, indirect rate structures, provisional billing rates, and contract funding modifications to the supporting records. Reconcile funding burn and Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) and government billing inputs with project information.
We help organize accounting system readiness aligned to the SF 1408 pre-award accounting system survey criteria and support DCAA audit readiness. Coordination with your advisors can cover FAR Part 31, applicable Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and incurred cost submission (ICS) support.
Ascent prepares documentation, reconciles records, and coordinates with your advisors.
Government contractor operationsKeep the process working after go-live.
Define the user and project administration, reporting review, issue handling, and training that continue after launch. A monthly review connects the system work to the close, payroll, billing, and contract responsibilities.
How we work togetherQuestions before we start
How long does a Unanet implementation take?
Implementation timing depends on the scope, data migration, integrations, reporting requirements, and readiness of your team. We agree the rollout plan and milestones after the initial assessment.
Can you help us move from QuickBooks or Deltek?
We can assess a transition from QuickBooks or Deltek and plan the agreed migration work. The records to move, available exports, historical detail, and reconciliation requirements determine the approach and what needs further review.
What happens after go-live?
Support can continue through agreed administration, issue review, reporting improvements, and training. We define the responsibilities and service scope with your team so ongoing support reflects your operating needs.
Can we keep our payroll provider?
That depends on your provider, the required information, and the transfer methods available. We review the workflow with you and the provider before recommending how payroll and accounting records should connect and reconcile.
How much do Unanet services cost?
Implementations are quoted as a fixed fee after the initial assessment. Ongoing support is a monthly fee based on users and scope. We share typical ranges on the first call.
Do you perform audits or represent clients before DCAA?
No. Ascent does not perform audits or represent clients before DCAA. We prepare documentation, reconcile records, and coordinate with your advisors.
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What should your Unanet environment do better?
Bring the project setup, reconciliation, report, or interface that is slowing the work.