Accounting to the people who fund you
SYCEBNL - the accounting framework for not-for-profit entities - governs the books of NGOs, foundations and associations across the OHADA region. It is a demanding standard, and its difficulty is not only technical: a not-for-profit organisation does not only account to the administration, it accounts to its funders. A funding audit is not satisfied by balanced statements; it asks, line by line, which accounts produced which amount.
General-purpose accounting tools, designed for commercial companies, do not cover this framework natively. Organisations end up copying their trial balances into spreadsheets, re-checking equilibria by hand, and reconstructing substantiation during the audit itself - at the worst possible moment, under the funder’s calendar pressure.
MAAS_SYCEBNL removes that rework. The software installs on the accounting department’s workstation; an imported trial balance produces statements in the required structure within seconds, controlled, audited, and accompanied by the substantiation of every line. It is the same audit-trail principle we apply on our IT audit engagements: a figure without its production path is not auditable.