The PSAB accelerator overview
The goal is to reduce the amount of finance design that municipalities need to recreate from scratch during ERP or finance modernization.
Current finance pressure
Municipal finance teams often rely on spreadsheets, legacy reports, manual year-end schedules, and disconnected asset or grant records to support PSAB reporting.
Accelerator approach
PCL starts with PSAB-aware configuration patterns for fund structures, TCA readiness, deferred revenue, reserves, grants, accrual workflows, and audit evidence.
Migration connection
For municipalities on Dynamics GP, the accelerator helps map GP finance structures, fixed assets, reporting outputs, and Excel schedules into the future-state model.
Future-state outcome
Finance teams gain clearer workflows for reporting, audit support, year-end readiness, asset reporting, and management visibility.
Built around the standards Canadian municipalities actually work with
The accelerator focuses on the finance workflows that create the most friction during municipal ERP modernization: fund accounting, tangible capital assets, post-employment benefits, grants, reserves, year-end reporting, and payroll-connected obligations.
Pre-built PSAB fund accounting configuration
Fund ledger structures, restricted and unrestricted funds, deferred revenue treatment, grants, reserves, accrual workflows, and year-end reporting readiness.
Tangible Capital Assets — PSAB 3150 readiness
Asset acquisition, betterments, amortization, disposals, net book value, capital reporting, and audit evidence for municipal infrastructure, vehicles, buildings, and equipment.
Post-employment benefits — PSAB 3255 readiness
Support for tracking post-employment benefit inputs, actuarial assumptions, liability reporting workflows, disclosure support, and HR/finance coordination.
CUPE / IAFF pay grid templates
Configurable pay grid structures for step progression, premiums, overtime rules, acting pay, retro pay readiness, and payroll handoff planning.
Designed around Canadian municipal finance and public-sector requirements
From Dynamics GP to PSAB-ready municipal finance
For municipal finance teams, replacing Dynamics GP is not only a technology decision. It is an opportunity to improve fund accounting, chart of accounts structure, TCA tracking, deferred revenue, grants, reserves, reporting continuity, and audit evidence before the next year-end cycle.
Where the accelerator connects across PCL Civic
PSAB readiness is not isolated to the finance team. It connects to assets, payroll, grants, procurement, reporting, and migration.
Fund Accounting & Budgeting
Fund structures, reserves, deferred revenue, grants, accrual workflows, budget control, and year-end reporting.
General Finance
AP, AR, cash, reconciliations, approvals, audit trails, period controls, and reporting exports.
Asset Management
Tangible capital asset records, betterments, amortization, disposal workflows, and PSAB 3150 readiness.
Public Sector HCM & Labour Relations
Pay grids, premiums, retro pay readiness, pension handoffs, and HR-to-payroll workflows.
Dynamics GP Migration
GP finance, fixed asset, reporting, payroll, tax, utility, and municipal add-on dependency mapping.
ERP Advisory & Implementation Oversight
Current-state discovery, governance, implementation oversight, testing, change readiness, and year-end planning.
Related guidance
View PSAB & Municipal Finance InsightsWho this helps
CFOs and finance directors
For teams focused on fund accounting, PSAB reporting, year-end close, audit evidence, reserves, grants, and management reporting.
Controllers and accounting managers
For teams managing accruals, deferred revenue, TCA schedules, reconciliations, audit support, and reporting continuity.
CAOs and corporate services leaders
For leaders who need confidence that finance modernization supports governance, public accountability, and operational continuity.
IT and implementation leaders
For teams mapping Dynamics GP, reports, integrations, security, data migration, and finance system dependencies.