This old and established showbiz accounting firm used its years of experience in the entertainment industry finance field to take Movie Magic as a basis and fashion a superb instrument for estimating the cost of production for anything from MTV and commercials to miniseries, maxiseries, and features, and everything in between. After going through many changes and updates, and a couple of different owners, it came into the good hands of Entertainment Partners. For those with a history in the business, EP Budgeting started life as Movie Magic Budgeting in the mid-1980s. Furthermore, EP Budgeting seems to be designed most closely to the way we are accustomed to making budgets, and undoubtedly the designers and programmers listened to the plentiful advice given them by members of the filmmaking community. No other program can make that statement as of this writing, or in the foreseeable future. EP Budgeting is the only program that works on both IBM and Macintosh platforms, and the data are interchangeable between the two.
There are several budgeting software programs in the marketplace that will make budgets for you, but of those only one has the lion’s share of the market (well over 90 percent), and for good reason. This book is about the process of budgeting, specifically budgeting using a computer. Today, with the advent of improved computer budgeting programs, it takes only a few hours and some knowledge of the copy-and-paste functions to enable the adept Production Manager to put together a budget-that and a thorough knowledge of the budgeting process. In the early 1960s when I first became a Production Manager it would take several days with a hand-cranked adding machine, pencils, and a lot of erasers to create a decent budget. TABLE OF CONTENTS USING THE SOFTWARE 1 INTRODUCTIONīUDGETING: AN ACCOUNT-BY-ACCOUNT ANALYSIS 1100 DEVELOPMENTġ Introduction The process of budgeting has changed radically in the past few years. ISBN: 0-4 For information on all Focal Press publications visit our website at 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Application Submitted British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
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