Case Study: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts achieves 25% finance efficiency and saves 8+ days/month with Sage Intacct

YSTA Services gains a data-driven outlook with Sage Intacct

YSTA Services, a family‑run shared‑services company in Texas that manages 20 legal entities including utility Payless Power, faced growing pains from using separate QuickBooks files that didn’t integrate with new CRM and GridLink billing systems. The fragmented setup produced manual, time‑consuming intercompany tasks and limited visibility across its diverse businesses.

Working with Madken Advisors to implement Sage Intacct (plus Nexonia) and integrate it with GridLink automated AR/AP, reconciliations, and expense processing while streamlining the chart of accounts. The finance team gained 25% efficiency, freed more than eight days per month, cut bank reconciliation from six hours to two and expense processing from ~10 hours to 1.5, and used new dashboards to identify investment opportunities — including selling 5–6 houses for strong returns.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Jason Maurice

Chief Financial Officer