Hollywood Accounting

Opaque or creative accounting methods

Hollywood Accounting
Hollywood accounting (also known as Hollywood bookkeeping) is the opaque or creative set of accounting methods used by the film, video, television and music industry to budget and record profits for creative projects. Expenditures can be inflated to reduce or eliminate the reported profit of the project, thereby reducing the amount which the corporation must pay in taxes and royalties or other profit-sharing agreements, as these are based on net profit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

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