Case Study: Yardstick achieves halved monthly close and $100K/year headcount savings with Sage Intacct

Yardstick finds a better way to benchmark its business with Sage Intacct

Yardstick is a fast-growing, award-winning Canadian provider of licensure, certification, online training, and psychometric services that operates multiple entities across North America and recently acquired a large publishing business. After a decade on QuickBooks the finance team faced a tangled chart of accounts, manual daily e-commerce journal entries, and no visibility into revenue by item or customer, so they sought a multi-entity, multi-currency cloud ERP with strong APIs and Salesforce integration.

Yardstick implemented Sage Intacct and integrated it with their proprietary e-commerce system and Salesforce, automating detailed revenue postings (customer, tax, revenue) and handling Canadian VAT. The change delivered granular reporting and project accounting via Dimensions, halved the monthly close, reclaimed 20 workdays per month, avoided about $100,000 in annual headcount costs, paid for itself in four months, and enabled the company to absorb the acquisition without adding accountants while improving decision-making.

YardStick

Salma Kaida

Project Accountant