CIP (construction in progress) isn’t just tracking projects—it’s shaping everything that comes next.
Many of you have asked for a User Group Session on CIP reporting. So we're happy to bring this to you! These are lively, interactive sessions (webinars) that are hosted by our fixed assets expert and Sage Fixed Assets Product Manager, Angela Bolton. Join us!
User Group session: CIP reporting
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT
Duration: 45 minutes
If you’ve ever looked at a report and thought, “Why doesn’t this match what we planned?” you’re not alone.
More often than not, the issue doesn’t start in reporting—it starts earlier, during construction in progress.
Most teams have a way to track CIP, but that tracking doesn’t always hold up when it comes time for reporting, audits, or analysis.
By the time assets are placed in service and rolled into the general ledger, key details are often:
- Consolidated
- Lost
- Or no longer easy to trace
And that creates gaps that show up later—when the stakes are higher.
Over the past year, we’ve been working with customers and sharing best practices around:
- Centralizing CIP data
- Improving visibility across teams
- Reducing manual errors from spreadsheets
- Strengthening audit readiness and compliance
If you haven’t seen it yet, this best practices guide is a great place to start:
Mastering CIP: Best practices guide
And if you prefer to dive into some training, Sage University recently released a new CIP interactive eBook you can explore:
Check out the interactive eBook
One theme that keeps coming up:
CIP isn’t just an accounting step—it’s part of a broader asset journey.
If you’re coming at this from an FP&A perspective, Angela Bolton, fixed assets expert, trusted consultant, and Sr. Product Manager for Sage Fixed Assets, recently shared a deeper take on this—exploring why FP&A is often brought in too late in the process, and what changes when they’re involved earlier.
And when teams aren’t aligned early, it becomes harder to:
- Connect planning to execution
- Support tax and reporting requirements
- Explain what actually happened later
In one of our recent CIP sessions, many of you told us you wanted to go deeper into reporting—what happens after projects are tracked, and how that data holds up across tax, audit, and analysis.
So we’re leaning into that and taking a closer look in our next user group session.
In this session, we’ll explore how to think about CIP differently—connecting it to:
- Better visibility before assets are capitalized
- Income tax reporting
- Property tax and sales and use tax considerations
Alongside Sage Fixed Assets expert Angela Bolton, we’ll be joined by:
- Kurt Reichenbach (GA Group – income tax expertise)
- Paul Chaben (GA Group – valuation, property tax, sales and use tax)
Even if your current process works, this session will likely surface opportunities to improve how you capture and use CIP data—before it becomes harder to fix.