We can provide:
• Budgets and cashflows; pre-close, prep and ongoing management.
• Cultural certificate applications and support. BFI obviously, but we can also manage tax credit and rebate applications for Ireland, Belgium, Malta, Portugal, Finland and South Africa amongst other locations.
• Draft tax credit and rebate calculations and ongoing management of them – the actual financed rebate or credit figure will almost always start to change the moment spend starts.
• Production bookkeeping
• Production payroll and VAT
• Production accounting; not just accurate and timely cost reports, but proactive cost and cashflow management; this is bread and butter outside the film world but in our experience within film and TV it is often left to producers and line producers who really have a lot of other things to be concentrating on.
Our view is that the lead production accountant should be a true expert partner to the producers, in much the same way a finance director would be to a business outside the film and tv industry.