Accounting firm management software

Uncomplicate your workflows, unlock efficiencies

A scalable solution designed to provide real-time business insights, enhancing performance and streamlining business process automation. IRIS Firm Management is tailored to meet the demands and challenges of enterprise-level and growing accountancy firms.

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  • 25+

    years providing document management software

  • 50+

    top 100 US Accounting firms are IRIS clients

  • 90,000+

    users around the world using IRIS software

Practice and document management software

Delivering scalable solutions for your firm’s growth

  • Configurability

    Build a customized management solution tailored to your exact practice needs.

  • Real-time insights

    Make accurate, data-driven decisions with enhanced real-time tracking and reporting.

  • Automation

    Reduce errors and improve accuracy with automated tasks, document management, billing, and scheduling.

  • Profitability

    Optimize resources, focus on your top services, and eliminate blockers.

  • Comprehensive

    Practice management and document management capabilities all in one place.

Why choose IRIS Firm Management?

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    Time and expenses

    Effortlessly track time and bill clients with complete precision with IRIS Firm Management (IFM) – and all from a single screen.  

    • Catch gaps, overlaps and inefficiencies fast! Keep on top of all deadlines with helpful views of task completion stage and outstanding tasks by assignee. Choose from calendar, grid, or list views to quickly see where time is spent on clients. 
    • Track chargeable and non-chargeable time and expenses with automatic expense approvals using preset rules. 
    • Our period lockdown feature allows for time validation, billing, and work-in-progress (WIP) tracking before locking a period. 
    • Configuration toolkit enables customized billing and expenses to deliver a professional experience. 
    • Time and Billing APIs integrate IFM with tools like Apxium. 
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    Billing and invoicing

    Make billing easy, accurate, and hassle-free for your firm and your clients. Capture everything in one bill, while monitoring profitability against clients or jobs. 

    • Move quickly from bill initiation to client dispatch with streamlined online workflows, making it easier to identify billing opportunities within client and job portfolios. 
    • Bill your way and manage payments with ease. Choose time-based, fixed-fee or value-based billing to match how you deliver services. Apply deposits to future invoices and prepaid client deposits, and simplify reconciliations by combining multiple payments into one for group deposits. 
    • Make billing faster and more accurate across your teams. Shared billing lists and balanced workflows ensures billing WIP is accurate and easy to manage. Raise and send bills automatically when work is complete – reducing delays and manual effort. 
    • Bill across multiple jobs or clients, including parent-child relationships, in one go. 
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    Workflow and scheduling

    Schedule resources, assign tasks, and improve your workflow management to ensure you never get the ‘did we miss a deadline?’ panic again. Customised scheduling is based on chargeability or other business rules.   

    • Standardise and simplify making jobs with job templates
    • Manage jobs and time from your phone with our app. 
    • Personalise individual job lists for staff to help prioritize and balance work. It’s easy with the drag-and-drop function. 
    • Use bulk updates to perform multiple jobs simultaneously to reduce time spent. See staff availability with daily, weekly, or monthly views. When staffing conflicts arise, authorized users can quickly resolve them using the built-in resolution screen. 
    • Get real-time updates on each client, with all essential information – like tracking budget against time spent per job – visible on one screen. 
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    Secure storage

    Keep all your important documents organized and easily accessible with the help of automation tools, such as auto-filing.  

    • One centralized repository for all documents that allows fast searchability and file management. 
    • Use auto-routing to file documents by named rules. Optimize key client file routing, deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. 

    Easily manage folders by client, job, and year, with tools to move, rename, and organize files across clients. 

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    Reporting and insights

    Make better data-driven decisions with our robust reporting and analytics tools build into IRIS Firm Management. Get real-time insights to steer your firm in the right direction. 

    • Microsoft SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) includes standard reports, covering a variety of everyday reporting needs in areas such as accounts receivable (A/R), work-in-progress (WIP), timesheets, staff analysis, and more.  
    • Business Process Automation (BPA) enables your firm to monitor and report on key information proactively. Customize margin and realization calculations by client. 
    • Highly configurable dashboards give an overview of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) upon login. Quickly identify areas requiring attention and drill down into the details. 
    • Advanced Analytics, powered by Power BI and Tableau, offers improved visibility into financial data and dynamic, interactive data visualization as an integration with IFM. 
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    Security first

    IRIS Firm Management is hosted entirely in Microsoft’s Azure environment. It leverages cloud resources within Azure to transmit, process, host, and store application code, client data, client websites, and benefits from the system monitoring utilities. 

    • IFM has SOC2 Accreditation. 
    • Database configuration enables each firm to maintain its database, ensuring storage in the correct jurisdiction and providing more flexible options for downloading data to local data warehouses or data lakes. 
    • Access for employees is via Azure Portal on the web using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or Microsoft Server Management Studio (SSMS). 
    • Ensure business continuity with weekly database backups that are automatically encrypted and securely stored, protecting your firm and delivering fast recovery if disaster strikes. 

Simplify your firm’s workflow with IRIS Body

IRIS Firm Management brings together all your tools—tasks, time tracking, billing, and client collaboration—into one seamless platform. Streamline operations, increase productivity, and deliver exceptional service with confidence. Designed for modern accounting firms ready to grow smarter.

Let talk firm management

Got questions?  Our experts are here to help.
 
Whatever your firms’ needs, IRIS Firm Management and its modular approach can be configured to reflect your core capabilities. Start shaping a solution that fits your firm —talk to us today. 
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See why accounting firms value IFM

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"Partnering with IRIS has been one of the best decisions we've made...what stood out to us during evaluation was that implementation was fully customizable and that IRIS has a lot of the top accounting firms in the world...[it] gives us comfort we are making a great investment. IFM will drastically change our firm operations it will bring a lot more information to our leaders of all of our different service line, it will help me better understand our performance, our client margins and overall billings."

Joseph Lerro, Partner - Leorro Sarbev

What’s standing between your firm and smoother operations?

Stuck between paper-based processes and the world of AI and automation, accounting firms today are stuck between tradition and transformation. Accountant Eva Mrazikova shares the four critical operational gaps holding CPA firms back. Explore her takeaways or see how your firm stacks up with our benchmarking tool. 

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Maximising IRIS Firm Management to work for you 

Want to get more out of your tech without adding complexity? This practical guide shares key strategies to help accounting firms streamline their operations, improve client collaboration, and boosting overall efficiency using IRIS Firm Management.  

Whether you’re new to the platform or looking to fine-tune your setup, this guide gives you clear, actionable ways to get more value – fast. 

Your checklist to get the most from IRIS Firm Management

Frequently asked questions

A firm management solution describes a collection of tools – in this case, pieces of software – that you can use to manage and run your firm. 
 
This might include software that supports:
  
- Practice management (including workflow management)  
- Document management  
- Client relationship management  
- HR and payroll functions  
- Planning and scheduling  
- Billing  

However, in the case of IRIS Firm Management, these otherwise independent tools, apps, and software components are brought together into a single, unified solution.  

It’s everything you’d need to run a fully functioning accountancy or CPA firm – plus, everything you need to drive profit, stay competitive, and be future-ready with automation, AI, and more. 
Yes, IRIS Firm Management is designed to work seamlessly with your existing IRIS and third-party software.  

Equipped with a powerful API layer, IRIS Firm Management can interact with third-party applications like:  

- Salesforce  
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central  
- Apxium  
- HubSync  
- And more 

Talk to our experts to find out more. 
IRIS Firm Management is an evolving solution, with new tools and functionality being added to help you meet the demands of a highly competitive, shifting market.  

Look out for new solutions and improvements coming up soon! 
As a cloud-based firm management solution, IFM is built on Microsoft Azure, the globally recognized cloud-computing platform.  

With 23% of the cloud market share, we believe Microsoft Azure is the ideal infrastructure partner to allow us to bring you the solutions you need.  

Azure also provides unique capabilities for a cloud platform, including facilities for software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). 

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