Accounting Services
Lights, Camera, Accounting Ltd is qualified to assist you every step of the way
Lights, Camera, Accounting: Your Production Finance Partner
We’re accountants who understand film. We build lasting relationships, becoming trusted members of your production team. Through clear, transparent communication, we keep you informed at every stage. We adapt to the industry’s fast pace—shifting budgets, moving schedules, evolving priorities—providing flexible support from pre-production through wrap. We handle the numbers so you can focus on creativity. Whether you’re a worker or company in film, we’ll keep your production financially focused and your cameras rolling.
Provision of Services for Production Projects
- Budgeting and Forecasting – Preparation of initial budgets and provision of ongoing cost forecasts to evaluate the financial impact of production changes.
- Cost Management and Reporting – Monitor expenditure against the budget, monitoring daily and weekly costs. Reportage of significant variations from the budget to the producers and department heads and suggest cost-saving measures where necessary.
- Cash Flow Management – Management of the production cash flow, ensuring funds are available when needed to pay bills and remain solvent.
- Payroll – Provision of payroll services
- Accounts Payable and Receivable – Processing financial transactions, setting up vendors, processing purchase orders and invoices, and managing petty cash.
- Tax Compliance and Incentives – Ensuring financial activities comply with relevant tax laws and regulations, and application of film and TV tax relief schemes to maximize potential rebates for the production company.
- Auditing and Financial Statements – Preparation of financial records and statements as required by investors on the production and facilitate independent audits if required.
Provision of Services to Film Crew Personnel
We recognise that the majority of crew members in the filming industry and creative sector are self employed or are part of their own limited company.
At Lights, Camera, Accounting we can provide all the financial services required by the crew members.
Self Employed
- Calculation of annual self-employed profits
- Quarterly reporting via appropriate software for MTD commencing April 2026
- Final calculation & submission of Self Assessment
- Tax advice to ensure the trading and submissions are fully HMRC compliant whilst ensuring all tax efficiencies
Crew operating via Limited Company
- Preparation of Trial Balance, Profit & Loss Account & Balance sheet to prepare company accounts
- Production of Companies House accounts and HMRC Corporation tax return
- Submission of accounts to the registry of companies and HMRC
- Tax advice to ensure the trading and submissions are fully HMRC complaint whilst ensuring all tax efficiencies
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