KUALI FINANCIALS

A financial platform built for higher education.

Accounting, budgeting, procurement, financial controls, and reconciliation, connected on a single platform for institutional finance.

WHY INSTITUTIONS CHOOSE KUALI FINANCIALS

Built for higher education finance, not adapted from generic tools.

Kuali Financials is a cloud-based financial management system built for higher education. It runs accounting, budgeting, procurement, and reconciliation through configurable workflows and built-in controls, not a patchwork of spreadsheets and point solutions.

01

Configure Around Your Institution

Configure around your institution. Adapt your chart of accounts, controls, and approval workflows to the way your institution operates—not the other way around.

02

Build Control into the Process

Build control into the process. Create controls and approval workflows that help manage funds, standardize processes, and increase transparency.

03

Designed Around the Realities of Campus Finance

Designed around the realities of campus finance. Manage financial operations with enterprise software created specifically for the funding structures and missions of colleges and universities.

04

Continuous Delivery, Without Disruptive Upgrades

Continuous delivery, without disruptive upgrades. Kuali continuously delivers new capabilities, so institutions don't have to wait for major upgrade cycles to get improvements.

Benefit:

Support complex institutional structures without forcing them into generic corporate processes.

Benefit:

Strengthen financial oversight while keeping everyday work moving.

Benefit:

Get the capabilities higher education needs without adapting a system built for another industry.

Benefit:

Stay current without the disruption of traditional upgrade projects.

CAPABILITIES

Financial operations.

Manage the financial operations that keep your institution moving.
Kuali Financials brings core financial processes together in a system designed for higher education—from procure-to-pay and general ledger to financial controls, reporting, and audit support.

Procure-to-Pay

General Ledger

Financial Controls

Reporting

Audit Support

SHARED CAPABILITIES

Built to adapt.

Your financial system shouldn't dictate how your institution works. Kuali Financials combines configurable financial management with the flexibility to adapt workflows, connect campus systems, and digitize additional processes as your institution evolves.


Make financial processes fit your institution.

Configure controls and approval workflows around your policies, structures, and processes.

Configurable approvals

Flexible routing

Built-in financial controls

Digitize the processes around your financial system.

Use Kuali's no-code forms and workflow capabilities to replace additional PDFs, emails, and manual financial processes without custom development.

Drag-and-drop forms

No-code workflows

Automated approvals and routing

Chart of accounts

A flexible, powerful chart of accounts supports the structures and controls unique to your institution.

Auditability

Manage and audit financial transactions with greater transparency and consistent controls.

Reporting & insight

Give financial teams access to the information they need to understand and manage institutional finances.

Integrations

Connect Financials with other campus systems through APIs and integration capabilities.

PROVEN IN PRACTICE

Institutions trust Kuali with the work that keeps campus moving.

12M

processes automated

350+

institutions served

20 years

in higher education

$118B

total grants managed

25M+

transactions

RESOURCES

Keep exploring financial operations.

More on modernizing institutional accounting, connecting budgeting to planning, and reducing manual reconciliation work. Start with these, then explore the full library of guides, webinars, and case studies across the site.

EBOOK

[PLACEHOLDER] Modernizing Financial Operations in Higher Education

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EBOOK

[PLACEHOLDER] What CFOs Need to Know About Modern Financial Operations

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VIDEO

[PLACEHOLDER] Connecting Budgeting and Procurement on One Platform

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