production accounting services
Moneypenny has been financially servicing the Australian film and television industry with specialist production accountants and support staff since 1980. Our dedicated team of 20 production accountants and controllers have provided project financial management for more than 350 productions (in excess of AUD$1.5 billion) with budgets ranging from $100,000 to $100,000,000 for features, MOW’s, episodic tv series, mini series, documentaries and music tours.
Financial Controllers
Production Accountants
Accounts Assistants/Petty Cash & Filing Clerks
Payroll Services
Budgeting & Cashflow Scheduling
Budget Comparisons and Scenario Planning
Co-production treaty advice and structuring
Advice on Local and International Incentives
Rebate Application Facilitation
These services may be tailored to suit your specific production. Moneypenny can provide the complete accounting team or support as required for an overseas Financial Controller.
Our accountants are experienced with most accounting packages used in this industry – Vista, Visual Max, PSL and we also have developed our own fully integrated general ledger, cost reporting and payroll software package – GFS and are familiar with the reporting requirements of US studios, international co-production and legislative authorities, various government funding bodies and completion guarantors. This wealth of experience has seen our personnel work in all states of Australia and various countries around the world in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pan Pacific.
When engaging Moneypenny, the production team at all times retains the ability to select from our pool of available accountants or assistants who they wish to have working on their project, as they do when hiring freelancers. However, our accountants come with the added support infrastructure of a specialist organization with over 200 years of collective production accounting and financial experience – we call this the Moneypenny Comfort Factor.
Accounting for how money is spent is in itself mere book keeping. The effective management, forecasting, integration and supply of appropriate compliance material and financial information, is on the other hand a highly specialised and industry specific task.
For further information or rates, please contact Jill Hewitt or Kate Meyer.