Finance for Film and TelevisionEditie 1

This text provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the day-to-day financial management of film and television productions.

This book begins by exploring the essential facets of film accounting, before examining best methods and practices for setting up as a film accountant in today’s industry. It then moves into in-depth analyses of the role accountants play in helping film and television budgets and schedules run smoothly while anticipating common problems along the way.

This 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 will be useful for aspiring film accountants, novice film producers, film students who wish to pursue producing as a career, and film production companies looking to train incoming film accounting staff for their productions.