Accounting Services for Media & Publishing Organizations
You’re the best at bringing quality content to the public.
Let us help you find the real story with your finances.
Reliable information builds trust.
Media and publishing nonprofits are navigating an era of unprecedented disruption as rapid regulatory changes have fundamentally altered their funding landscape. Reliable information has never been more vital, and financial stability has never been more difficult to secure.
YPTC helps you maintain financial resilience, comply with evolving regulations, make informed decisions, and build trust with donors, funders, and stakeholders—so you can keep telling the stories that matter.
How We Can Help Your Media and Publishing Organization
Reporting
Like your organization, accurate and timely reporting is what we do! We work with you to develop financial reports and visualizations that tell your organization’s financial story in a way your team can embrace and communicate to stakeholders. Our nonprofit finance experts can build custom dashboards, visuals, and reports to illustrate your progress toward subscription targets; distribution, licensing, and royalty agreements; intellectual property valuations; inventory management; and more.
Revenue
Understanding complex and changing revenue streams is critical as many organizations are pivoting to emergency fundraising, membership drives, foundation grants, and new earned revenue strategies following a loss of federal funding. YPTC has deep experience managing all the nuances of revenue recognition, from advance sales, subscriptions, licensing, advertising, and underwriting to corporate sponsorships, digital media sales, training programs, and special events. We also handle unrelated business income (UBI).
Allocations & Cost Accounting
Tracking your projects, including overages, budgets, grants, and restrictions, can strain your organizational capacity, taking the focus away from your mission. We are experts in allocations and cost accounting. We’ll help you track production costs and overhead across multiple metrics to bring clarity and data-backed insights to help you get the most out of your limited resources.
Budgeting and Forecasting
Federal funding cuts, regulatory changes, and political volatility have made traditional, single-scenario budgeting insufficient. YPTC helps build robust, multiple-scenario plans that model the financial impact of key risks. We train your team in budgeting best practices, scenario modeling, and continuous cash flow forecasting to ensure you've got stress-tested, action-ready plans to protect your mission, no matter what comes next.
Our Nonprofit Accounting Services
We work with nonprofits of all types—including media and publishing organizations. Our team helps nonprofits take charge of their financial management and build a foundation for future success through the following services:
• CFO-level thought partnership
• Accounting, bookkeeping & month-end close
• Financial reporting & analysis
• Board meeting attendance & training
• Budgeting & forecasting
• Scenario planning & cash flow management
• Policies & procedures
• Grant proposals, management & reporting
• Audit preparation
• Customized dashboards
• System conversions
• Interim solutions
Proudly Serving Media and Publishing Clients
“It’s not just bookkeeping; they’re making an investment in the financial health of the organizations they work with, and they see that as their mission. It’s really incredible to be able to get that level of support.”
- Cierra Hinton, Executive Director-Publisher, Scalawag Magazine
“They’ve freed up my time and my colleagues’ time for all the other work we need to do, plus their reports are more rigorous, more timely and more informative. They make us more nimble.”
- Meaghan Parker, Executive Director, Society of Environmental Journalists
“We needed someone brave who could handle all these different government accounting standards, code everything in multiple ways and map it all out. In our annual independent audit, we have to go through over 100 different items, plus testing, to meet Corporation for Public Broadcasting standards. YPTC has been worth every penny.”
- Erinn Kari, Business & Operations Manager, KUNR 88.7
Meet Our Team
Justine Townsend, Manager and Leader of YPTC's Arts & Culture Specialization
Justine Townsend, CPA, is a lover of the arts and has worked with many arts organizations. She is also an adjunct professor of Financial Management of the Arts for the University of Houston’s Master of Arts Leadership program. She has served in financial leadership roles and as an auditor for nonprofits for over 18 years. Justine uses her in-depth knowledge of nonprofit financial management and passion for service to the arts to help arts, media, and publishing organizations achieve their missions.
Additionally, Justine is backed by numerous colleagues at YPTC who are passionate about the arts and have experience helping media and publishing organizations reach their full potential.
