media & entertainment
The challenges of increasing competition, rising operating costs, and the current lean financing environment, have created a growing need for expert understanding of your business operations. These issues are significant, whether you are in the traditional media space or in a new media platform.
We are experienced in working with both small and large businesses:
- Owned and operated by entrepreneurs;
- Part of a platform of operating entities owned by private equity groups; and
- Those that are part of multi-national corporations
Our services reach beyond accounting, audit, and tax compliance services to include:
- Tax efficient operating entity structure
- Deal efficiencies from a tax perspective
- Shifting of taxable income in multinational entities to countries where statutory rates are lower
- Assistance in presentation/identification of business operating results to lenders and prospective investors in a manner which highlights normalized results of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization and which reflects the proforma impact of acquisitions, divestitures, etc.
- Assistance in interpretation/application of the increasingly complex technical accounting standards to help you make better business/financing decisions
- Going beyond the numbers to recommend opportunities to improve accounting processes and internal controls
A representative sample of businesses our current publishing, media and communication clients operate in includes:
Publishing – Print & Electronic Distribution
- B2B magazines
- Consumer and enthusiast magazines
- Newsletters
- Directories and yellow pages
- Book publishers
- Custom publishers
- Catalogues
- Newspapers
Marketing, Advertising & Data/Information Providers
- Licensors of various information – financial, marketing/advertising expenditure, and telecommunications industry data
- Licensors of software – aviation, marketing-media buys
- Direct response advertising and direct mail
- Advertising agency
- Tracking and analysis of online consumer-generated media
- Advertising modeling
Other Media
- Radio stations
- Cable/television stations
- Trade shows
- Event management
- Seminars and continuing professional education
- Specialized print and online photography and illustration database
- Consulting services – telecommunications
