Accounting software for media and publishing companies
Easily manage multiple revenue streams and build a flexible accounting structure that allows you to allocate costs correctly. Enjoy automated reporting by media, publication, entity or at group level.
How AccountsIQ helps media and publishing businesses grow
Ongoing flexibility
Adapt to your business’s changing needs with flexible and scalable cloud accounting software. Handle the accounting implications of acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures smoothly, with a multi-entity accounting framework and automated consolidation.
Gain clarity from complex data
With the endless options our multi-dimensional coding framework offers, you can categorise and monitor multiple revenue streams accurately — from subscriptions to ads and digital sales — and allocate costs across different media or entities.
Reduce the cost of ownership in the cloud
No more costly upgrades, expensive hardware or heavy implementation costs — just one monthly fee. Even if you’re already operating in the cloud, enjoy huge time-savings with digital workflows and embedded AI.
We needed to move to a cloud-based accounting solution that could meet the needs of our group of publishing and media businesses. We were looking for a high level of core functionality instead of bespoke patching and a system readily capable of scaling-up. AccountsIQ is an established product and it became obvious to us the product would continue to evolve.
Discover our customers’ success
“There’s never a perfect time to change finance systems, but the efficiencies you gain from AccountsIQ make it completely worthwhile.”
“Previously, we relied on the basic Sage 50 and paper-based processes, which really limited efficiency and alignment within the Ross-Shire Engineering Group standards.”
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“The system is so intuitive that it almost isn’t onboarding, the team just took to it.”
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FAQs
How do you track multiple revenue streams and allocate costs in one system with AccountsIQ?
You can track multiple revenue streams and allocate costs in one system by structuring AccountsIQ around the GL plus BI analysis codes, then using standard and recurring journals for consistent allocations. For revenue, you’d typically set up separate GL accounts for each main revenue stream and then use BI codes to capture the detail that matters. By tagging each invoice and journal with the right GL and BI combination, you can report revenue by stream, brand, channel, region, or any mix of those, including across entities using group reporting.
For cost allocation, direct costs like production or campaign spend are coded to the same BI structure as the related revenue, so profitability reporting stays aligned. Shared costs can be allocated using recurring or template journals, spreading costs by a set percentage across BI dimensions and entities. Where costs need to be recharged between entities, those intercompany allocations can be posted within AccountsIQ, with eliminations handled during consolidation.