Industry
Production accounting, rights revenue and project margin.
Production and events businesses run project by project, with costs committed before revenue is certain. Rights, royalties and cross-border withholding complicate the picture.
5 practices most relevant to media & entertainment
Discuss your positionWhat we get asked
The questions we get from media & entertainment.
Recognisable problems rather than a capability list. Each one has a route through it.
Project and production cost accounting
Rights, royalty and residual revenue
Cross-border withholding and treaty positions
Freelance and contractor payroll compliance
Market context
Production and events businesses commit cost before revenue is certain and settle it project by project. Rights, royalties and cross-border withholding complicate both the revenue line and the tax position.
How we help
What we are actually engaged to do.
- Production cost accounting
- Cost captured and reported by production while it is still running.
- Rights, royalty and residual revenue
- Revenue recognised and reconciled across rights arrangements.
- Freelance and contractor compliance
- Payroll and engagement compliance across a variable workforce.
Relevant services
Ranked for this sector, not alphabetically.
The order reflects where the work usually starts.
Accounting & Finance
A finance function that reports on time and holds up to scrutiny.
Tax
UAE Corporate Tax, VAT and transfer pricing, handled end to end.
Business Advisory
Decisions on growth, cost and structure, backed by numbers.
Outsourcing
Your finance and back office, run by a team you do not have to hire.
Audit & Assurance
Independent assurance that stakeholders and regulators accept.
Where we get the call
Situations we are brought into.
These describe work we are engaged to do. Named engagement notes publish only where a client has approved them.
Production costs are only reconciled after delivery, when the margin is already fixed.
Cross-border rights income is being received without a documented withholding position.
Related
Media & Entertainment, in context
Next step
Talk to someone who knows media & entertainment.
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What follows
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- A written scope and fee basis, or a straight answer that there is no work to do.
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