Case Study: Room to Read accelerates monthly close and scales global finance with Sage Intacct

Room to Read turns a new page on its financial management with Sage Intacct

Room to Read is an international nonprofit that has improved literacy and girls’ education for more than 12.4 million children across 20,000 communities and grown to $50M in annual revenue with offices in 10 countries. As the organization scaled and launched a new “Accelerator” model, leadership and a newly hired CFO found their legacy server‑based general ledger (Epicor) lacked the granularity, multi‑entity/multi‑currency support, and global access needed for detailed program costing and donor reporting.

Working with Armanino, Room to Read implemented Sage Intacct, collapsing its chart of accounts from 56,000 to 100 using dimensions and integrating with Salesforce, Adaptive Insights, and Nexonia. The change eliminated manual spreadsheets, sped the monthly close (3 to 2 weeks), cut audit prep by 60%, accelerated planning 4x, delivered ~25–30% productivity gains (about $300K annual field savings), avoided at least one FTE, paid for itself in two months, and now enables drill‑down reporting—even to the cost of a single library—improving donor accountability and program decision‑making.

Room to Read

Shari Freedman

Chief Financial Officer