Courses for
Accounting
Bookkeeping
This course will cover the analysis of budget, comparison of costs to budget, creating a miniature cost report to report the position and how to forecast final costs from limited information. It will explore ways to communicate financial information to creatives and how to get valuable information from them. It will also cover ways of finding out information as well as how to interpret that information.
This is a course for assistant accountants who might find themselves being made responsible for an entire departmental budget. It will look at the role of the construction accountant and VFX accountant and ways to monitor departmental budgets such as set dec or SFX.
Payroll
These are a range of courses giving a comprehensive overview of efficient payroll processes and the implications of the PACT/Bectu agreements. Subjects include basic understanding of cast/stunts and crew/dallies and construction payroll, understanding and cutting timesheets, establishing the difference between industry agreements, running payrolls: timing, deadlines, getting organised, finding your system, construction payroll: layout of the contract, US studios regulations, IR35 updates, useful links.