DebtBook for Higher Education
The treasury and accounting software of choice at over 150 colleges & universities
- Manage external debt, central bank, and internal loans
- Monitor private business use and tax compliance
- Build accurate cash forecasts and maximize liquidity
- Ensure compliance with GASB 87, GASB 96, and ASC 842 standards
Trusted by Leading Colleges & Universities
We’ve been in your shoes
Our platform is designed by former government and nonprofit finance professionals who have spent decades in your world. That experience shapes everything we do—from how we build our software to how we support our customers.
We are the only financial software solution built with this depth of industry expertise, ensuring our platform works the way finance teams need it to.
A modern financial solution for higher education
DebtBook provides a centralized, cloud-based platform designed to help higher education institutions streamline debt, cash, lease, and subscription management – saving time, improving collaboration, and ensuring compliance.
Universities and colleges face unique financial challenges, including tracking capital projects, managing internal loans, navigating central bank structures, tracking private business use for tax compliance, and ensuring compliance with GASB & FASB standards. DebtBook simplifies these complex processes, allowing finance teams to focus on strategic decision-making.
How Higher Education Institutions Use DebtBook
- Manage external debt, central bank, and internal loans – Track and report interdepartmental lending with full transparency
- Monitor private business use and tax compliance – Automate compliance tracking and receive real-time alerts when limits are exceeded
- Optimize bond proceeds and project allocations – Allocate proceeds to projects and track spending effortlessly
- Streamline financial reporting and debt structuring – Maintain compliance and explore refinancing opportunities with ease
- Build accurate cash forecasts – Anticipate future cash needs so you can invest and borrow more strategically
- Maximize liquidity and optimize cash positioning – Gain real-time visibility across all university accounts
- Enhance treasury operations for central bank management – Track inflows, outflows, and interdepartmental cash movements seamlessly
- Ensure compliance with GASB 87, GASB 96, and ASC 842 – Automate calculations and maintain audit-ready records
- Streamline interdepartmental lease tracking – Manage real estate, equipment, and technology leases across departments
- Simplify financial reporting for university leadership – Generate reports in just a few clicks
How UNC Charlotte saved students $600K in fees with DebtBook
“By using DebtBook we were able to identify when this particular debt issuance was going to mature. So we were able to see a situation where we could actually retire that debt fee a few years early, prior to those bonds maturing.”
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
We basically gave several of our spreadsheets to our DebtBook team and they ran it.
“I can basically send a new senior financial analyst to the tool and say, ‘Create five different scenarios with these assumptions,’ and I feel confident that they could get me something within an afternoon.”
City of Milwaukee
How we helped UNC Greensboro uncover a sizable bank overcharge during implementation
During implementation, our team discovered discrepancies in some amortization schedules that didn’t align with University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Excel versions.
We helped uncover errors caused by manual data entry in previous years, enabling the team to correct the schedules, and discovered a sizable bank overcharge.
Why higher education finance teams choose DebtBook
At DebtBook, we've worked hard to establish ourselves as the industry leader in government and non-profit financial software by delivering world-class solutions that have changed the way teams work.
We believe we stand apart from the competition and are committed to being a trusted partner to you with staying power.
- The only cloud-based platform designed specifically for government and nonprofit teams
- Over 2,100 customers, including over 150 higher education institutions
- 125+ employees
- SOC 1 & 2 data integrity and security compliance and single sign-on functionality
- Built by public finance professionals
