Case Study: Room to Read achieves 80% faster month-end close and 7-day quicker reimbursements with Emburse (Nexonia)

How Room to Read improved financial efficiency by 80% and helped 100,000+ children worldwide as a result

Room to Read, a global nonprofit focused on literacy and gender equality in education, faced a manual, Excel-based expense and time tracking process that couldn’t scale across its worldwide operations. With no time-tracking system, slow, weeks-long month-end closes, and constant chasing of receipts, the organization needed an integrated, automated solution—so Room to Read selected Nexonia (Nexonia Expenses and Nexonia Timesheets) from Emburse.

Emburse, via Nexonia, deployed unified expense and time tracking with Sage Intacct integration, mobile receipt capture, automated rules and approval workflows, and custom reporting. The solution cut month-end close time by more than 80% (weeks to days), sped reimbursements by seven days, improved donor reporting and compliance to secure larger awards, and helped Room to Read estimate an impact on 100,000 children through time and cost savings.

Room to Read

Shari Freedman

CFO