Finance for Film and Television: A Guide to Film Accounting

This text provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the day-to-day financial management of film and television productions. The book begins by exploring the essential facets of film accounting, before examining the best methods and practices for setting up as a film accountant in today’s industry. This leads into in-depth analyses of the role accountants play in helping film and television budgets and schedules run smoothly, anticipating common problems along the way. The text examines the practices behind recording, organizing, and reporting financial transactions specific to different film and television productions. This is all supplemented with real-world schedules and budgets from film sets, along with contracts, payroll and processing paperwork, and various other transactions and processes not yet published in an academic text. This book is useful for an aspiring film accountant, the film producing novice, the film student wishing to pursue producing as a career, and film production companies looking to train incoming film accounting staff for their productions.