Case Study: Mountainside Fitness Centers achieves 20‑day faster month‑end closes and $140K payroll savings with Sage Intacct

Mountainside Fitness Centers Gets its Financials in Shape with Intacct’s Best-in-Class Financial Management

Mountainside Fitness Centers is the largest locally owned health‑club chain in Arizona (11 locations, 45,000 members) and was preparing to double in size. Its QuickBooks-based finance processes couldn’t handle multi‑entity reporting, lacked financial controls, required extensive Excel work and manual revenue and payroll entry from its CSI club system, and stretched month‑end close and AP processing to days or weeks.

By implementing Intacct’s cloud financial management and integrating CSI and payroll systems, Mountainside automated multi‑entity consolidation with a single chart of accounts, reduced GL complexity by over 50%, and added granular controls and audit trails. The finance team shortened monthly close by about 20 days, cut AP processing from days to hours, avoided hiring 5–6 additional staff (about $140,000 in payroll savings), and used improved reporting to make decisions that preserved roughly $250,000 in EBITDA.

Mountainside Fitness Centers

Tracy Taylor

CFO