Production Accounting & Payroll
What We Do
Most CPAs treat content businesses like freelancers and production companies like one-off projects. Both are wrong. We’ve spent 37+ years inside the industry building the kind of accounting systems creative businesses actually need, multi-entity, project-aware, real-time, and built to flex with the spike-and-valley cash flow that comes with the work. Accounting that makes financial decisions easier instead of harder.
Accounting & Financial Reporting
Transaction-level coding across all entities, monthly close with real analysis, project P&Ls per show or campaign, and real-time dashboards so you always know what’s actually on budget.
Production Payroll
Union and non-union crew payroll, 1099 and W-2 processing, multi-state compliance, fringe and per-diem calculations handled correctly the first time.
Investor & Royalty Accounting
Capital account tracking, waterfall and distribution calculations, and clean K-1 reporting for investors, paired with inbound royalty and residual income tracking across networks, distributors, and licensing partners. Every dollar in and every dollar out, documented and reconciled.
The PRod Co Advantage
Most firms either understand corporate accounting or production accounting, not both. We’re the team that does both, under one roof, built on 25+ years of doing this work for reality, documentary, episodic, scripted, and creator businesses. Show-level data, corporate-level data, and investor-level data finally tell the same story, in the same week, with the same numbers.
Accounting FAQs
It’s how we bring corporate accounting and production accounting together so they finally tell the same story. Most production companies and creator businesses end up with two sets of books. One for the business, one for the work, that drift apart over the course of a year. Line It Up reconciles them in real time, so when you ask “where do we stand?” The answer takes minutes, not weeks.
Our Line It Up System does have a tech stack that we recommend to clients as a “best practices,” but if you love your current stack then we can absolutely work within the systems that you have in place.
Real-time cost reports per show or campaign, monthly close packages with a written analysis (not just a P&L), project-level profitability dashboards, and statements ready for investors, networks, lenders, or completion bond providers. Plus quarterly business reviews with someone who has the context to interpret them, not just hand them off.
Pricing is structured by complexity, number of entities, scope of strategy work, and filing scale. Most engagements are quoted as a flat weekly/monthly fee after a 30-minute discovery call. Reach out for a custom quote.
Ready for Clearer Financials?
Get the insights you need to stay ahead of the curve.