When Rumala Sheikhani started accounting on shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia , she was processing extras’ paperwork — the timecards, or vouchers, for daily job bookings — by manually calculating payouts in Excel spreadsheets. “You have 500 people showing up to set for one day and leaving, so it’s really hard to keep track of their paperwork and make sure they’ve filled it out. These are W-4s, I-9s, complicated tax paperwork,” she says.

Sheikhani, who began her career at pro services giants PwC and Ernst & Young before stints in production accounting at Searchlight Pictures and NBCUniversal, took those hourslong paperwork days and launched her own firm with a focus on streamlining the pay process specifically for background actors.

When Rumala Sheikhani started accounting on

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