Specialized Industry GAAP: Entertainment

Course Description:

This course discusses all of the important authoritative pronouncements on GAAP for entertainment industries. This course addresses accounting principles, financial reporting presentation requirements, required and recommended disclosures for entertainment industries such as broadcast, cable television, film, and music.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the reporting requirements for network affiliation agreements
• Identify the accounting requirement for barter transactions in the broadcast industry
• Identify key terms and how to treat different cost for the cable TV industry
• Recognize the direct selling costs for cable television providers
• Recognize different film costs, including participation costs, exploitation costs, and manufacturing costs, and their accounting
• Recognize factors that should be used to estimate future cash flows for a film.
• Account for royalty payments to music artists