Case Study: RIVR Media achieves 125+ hours/month time savings and $100,000/year cost savings with Sage Intacct

RIVR Media gains a big-picture view of its finances with Sage Intacct

RIVR Media, an independent television producer since 1985 with more than 100 shows across major cable networks, struggled to manage complex, multi-entity project accounting using QuickBooks and Excel. Tracking budgets and costs at the series and episode level was time-consuming and made consolidations, reporting, and timely visibility into production profitability nearly impossible.

RIVR migrated to Sage Intacct (with implementation support from LBMC and Nexonia) and adopted a multi-entity, multi-dimensional general ledger that tags transactions by customer, series, and episode. The new system delivers consolidated project reports in under a minute, shortened the monthly close by 3–4 days, saved more than 125 person‑hours per month and about $100,000 annually, sped up invoicing and payments, and gave producers real-time insight to control costs.

RIVR Media

Mark Bellich

Chief Financial Officer