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RKL eSolutions helps entertainment companies—including film and TV production, distribution, gaming, talent, digital media, VR, commercials, and support services—connect accounting, reporting, planning, and operational systems. Our scalable entertainment finance software provides greater visibility across entities, productions, titles, projects, and revenue streams while automating core financial processes, reducing reliance on spreadsheets, and integrating with industry-specific solutions. Backed by extensive experience serving entertainment organizations across the spectrum, RKL eSolutions delivers proven technology solutions, specialized expertise, industry best practices, and real-time information that empowers finance leaders and decision-makers when and how they need it.

Which financial processes in the entertainment industry can be supported by accounting software?

Entertainment accounting software helps companies manage financial activity across multiple entities, productions, projects, titles, and revenue streams. It can support consolidations, budgeting, forecasting, approval workflows, financial reporting, and integrations with production accounting, rights management, and payroll systems.

Sage Intacct, a true cloud accounting software platform, helps finance and accounting teams in the entertainment industry track production costs across multiple projects, manage contracts and ensure that talent gets paid accurately and on time.

Legendary Entertainment

"We’ve always known that RKL eSolutions is looking out for us. They’ve scaled with us as we’ve scaled—continuing to offer the same sound, informed advice and solutions that enable us to focus more on our business, and less on our accounting software."

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Skydance Media

"Not only is RKL eSolutions extremely knowledgeable in accounting and technology, they have an abundance of entertainment industry experience. That made it so much easier for us to explain what we need from our financial management software, because they’ve done it countless other times for companies just like ours."

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Are you managing multiple companies/entities manually?

Our Technology Solution:

Manage unlimited entities
Share vendor, customer, project and item lists across entities
Centralize payable and receivables
Automate inter-company transactions
Automatically consolidate reports and dashboards
Add multi-currency and global consolidations when necessary

Your Benefits:

Instant roll-up reporting (single currency)
Consolidate operational reports by customer, vendor, project, and more
Accelerate monthly closes
Push-button consolidations (multiple currencies)

Do you lack the reports and insight needed to run the business effectively?

Our Technology Solution:

Create user-defined dashboards and reports
Report on an unlimited number of data dimensions (e.g., project, title, season, episode, channel, network, producer, etc.)
Include statistical (i.e. non-financial) data to calculate KPIs
Create accrual and cash-based reports quickly and easily

Your Benefits:

Make timely, data-driven decisions (finally!)
Stop relying on manual Excel
Create reports and dashboards without IT assistance
Provide self-service for execs and other stakeholders

Are your systems and workflow processes disconnected and disjointed?

Our Technology Solution:

Leverage integration with industry-specific applications (rights management, payroll, etc.)
Automate project accounting
Streamline revenue management (i.e., bookings, billings, renewals)
Create workflows and approval paths for automated accounts payable

Your Benefits:

Best-in-class finance + rights management, entertainment payroll, etc
Boost project success with a single-source for project reports, dashboards, and delivery details
Gain insight into future revenues, projected renewals, deferred revenue, and more
Adapt your changing business needs on the fly

Is your budgeting and forecasting process slow and painful?

Our Technology Solution:

Implement continuous planning and rolling forecasts
Include revenue, personnel, expense, capital, balance sheet and cash flow planning
Leverage key assumptions, driver-based planning, and “what-if” analysis

Your Benefits:

Reduce cycle times by up to 90%
Enjoy a comprehensive and flexible planning process delivered with speed and accuracy

Does your old or aging technology keep your business from growing?

Our Technology Solution:

Access via the web from any device
Use the latest version and newest features … always
Set your IT resources free: backups, data security, disaster recovery are all included with subscription

Your Benefits:

Rapid and enthusiastic user adoption
Scale entities and locations rapidly
Finance can truly “own” the solution
Integration guaranteed not to break

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Automation

Make your accounts payable process more efficient by slashing the time you spend on invoice approvals and payments by 60% or more with a cloud-based AP Automated software.

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Budgeting & Planning

Forecast, plan, and report accurate budgets with flexible enterprise performance management tools for FP&A Specialists and other finance professionals.

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Employee Expense Management

Quickly add your employees' cash expenses, upload their receipts, and automatically analyze their expense reports with employee expense management software.

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Month-End Close Management

Organize, automate, and ensure the completeness of your current month-end close processes with our preferred workflow automation management solution.

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Production Accounting

Manage purchase orders, track actuals against your budget, pay vendors, and more with a fully integrated production accounting solution.

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Rights Management

Manage the distribution of your content and intellectual property, track royalties, and maintain copyright and data protection compliance with rights management software.

Talent Payroll

Automatically create smart timecards with built-in union compliance for your production payroll needs with a talent payroll management solution.

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Entertainment Accounting Software FAQs:

What is entertainment accounting software?

Entertainment accounting software helps production, distribution, media, gaming, and talent companies manage financial activity across entities, projects, productions, titles, and revenue streams. Depending on the platform and integrations, it can support consolidations, reporting, budgeting, approvals, production accounting, rights data, and payroll activity.

What accounting software is best for entertainment companies?

The best system depends on the company’s entity structure, reporting requirements, production workflow, integrations, transaction volume, and growth plans. Companies with multiple entities or complex reporting needs may need a cloud ERP platform rather than basic bookkeeping software. A requirements assessment should be completed before selecting a platform.

Can Sage Intacct support entertainment companies?

Sage Intacct can support multi-entity accounting, consolidations, dimensional reporting, dashboards, workflow automation, and financial controls. It can also connect with specialized production accounting, planning, AP, rights-management, and payroll systems, depending on the organization’s requirements and available integrations.

What should an entertainment CFO look for in an ERP system?

Entertainment CFOs should assess multi-entity accounting, reporting dimensions, production and project visibility, budgeting and forecasting, approval workflows, integration options, security, audit trails, implementation support, and the system’s ability to scale with new productions, entities, acquisitions, and revenue channels.

Can accounting software integrate with production accounting?

Yes. Production accounting systems can often be connected with a company’s core financial-management platform. A properly designed integration can reduce duplicate entry, improve reconciliation, and help management connect production activity with consolidated financial reporting.

Can entertainment accounting software integrate with rights and payroll systems?

Depending on the selected products and available connectors, financial software can integrate with rights-management, royalty, production-payroll, talent-payroll, AP, and other operational platforms. Integration requirements should be documented during system selection and solution design.

How does multi-entity accounting help entertainment companies?

Multi-entity accounting helps finance teams manage separate legal entities, productions, locations, or business units while automating intercompany transactions, eliminations, and consolidated reporting. This reduces manual spreadsheet work and gives leadership a clearer view of the overall organization.

How long does an ERP implementation take?

The timeline depends on entity count, process complexity, data quality, integrations, reporting requirements, and internal resources. A discovery phase allows RKL eSolutions to define scope, responsibilities, risks, and a realistic implementation schedule.

How should an entertainment company prepare for an ERP implementation?

Preparation should include documenting current processes, identifying reporting and integration requirements, cleaning financial data, assigning internal decision-makers, reviewing the chart of accounts, and establishing measurable implementation goals.

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