Finance

Islands of disconnected information and spreadsheets can no longer solve the rising complexity and need for agility faced by today’s Media business.

mediafusion4production finance module represents a proven application built to serve the financial controlling requirements of Media firms, managing and accelerating all key aspects of your business, delivering a powerful insight into how your business is really performing.

Deeper Insight into Business Performance through Better Reporting Tools

mediafusion4production enables the calculation of financial information based upon current contractual positions. This gives users a wider scope of analysis, extending the reach of the financial department beyond basic invoicing information. mediafusion provides predictive reports, tied to contractual data, which can be exported into a familiar MS Excel environment, such reports can include;

Budget Planning

The ability to allocate and manage production costs in all different production stages, from initial development to post production, marketing and distribution.Preproduction evaluation is assisted through the easy creation of financial proposals to support the decision making process. All costs and potential revenues being easily allocated supporting the decision making process and the selection of financially viable projects based on clear parameters. All approved projects receiving a unique identification number against which all future costs can be allocated.

Financial Controlling

Financial controlling of all orders for production related materials, marketing and promotion. Ability for financial controllers to approve or deny organizational purchase requests and allocation of costs to specific production projects.

Profit and Loss Reporting

Profit and Loss Reports - detailing information by Title, Territory, Genre etc, providing the ability to analyze profitability based on product, market and other user defined criteria.

Royalty Statement Calculation and Reporting

Automating Royalties statement calculations eliminates the time consuming process of entering manually royalty information into excel sheets, improving data accuracy and greatly increasing the speed of production of such reports.Automated Calculation of Royalty Reports -
Audit Trail - Simplifies internal and external auditing, with clear traceability of royalty statements. The dates when audit reports are contractually required can be set up in the task list in the work-flow, to ensure that the company fully complies with contractual requirements for royalty statement production. Royalty Calculation for Unit Sales - for Downloads and DVD sales - Ability to track unit sales and the calculation of unit based royalties linked to downloads, DVD sales and such.

360 degree overview of Cash Flow

Through utilization of contract data, you can see contractual obligations which are not invoiced as yet, making a more transparent and meaningful way to view future cash flow obligations.Real Overview of Cash flow. Currency Control - Having a real overview of the future cash obligations enables the preparation and planning to cover currency requirements should contracts be made in currencies outside the company’s national currency, enabling finance teams to purchase forward at favorable rates rather than expensive spot purchases.

Creating Asset Visibility

Based on the availabilities calculation in the connected License Module, you easily calculate the value of content that the organization actually owns. Categories such as ratings, platforms, available territories and license periods determine a financial valuation of the firms owned content, which can be used to raise external finance or as part of the company valuation process.

Depreciation Calculations made Fast and Simple

Having the purchase values, expenses and utilization of licensed assets documented inside mediafusion enables the easy calculation of depreciation using company specific criteria. Assets can be depreciated based on their rate of exploitation, enabling the reduction in tax liabilities. Depreciation calculations can be done very fast in just a few clicks, calculating thousands of content titles at one time.

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