Case Study
Life Time Fitness Takes a Healthier Approach to Reporting
Life Time Fitness T akes a Healthier Approach to ReportingC ollecting and deciphering handwritten comments. Checking and rechecking numbers. Fiddling with table alignment. Footing and cross-footing. Struggling with the timeline. Managing all of that and more, Megan Rowekamp, Director of Financial Reporting for Life Time Fitness, was getting a real workout compiling her company’ s periodic SEC filings. Rowekamp oversees external report development and filing for Life Time Fitness, which operates more than 100 large and distinctive sports, professional fitness, family recreation, and spa destinations in the United States and Canada. She previously outsourced the company’ s XBRL block tagging but found she couldn’t always get the help she needed—or rely on the answers she recei