Finance

mediafusion4television

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

The mediafusion4television Finance Module represents a proven application, 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.

The Finance module in mediafusion enables the calculation of financial information based upon current contractual positions and planned content scheduling. This gives its users a wider scope of analysis, extending the reach of the financial department beyond invoicing information. The Finance module provides predictive reports, which can be exported into a familiar MS Excel environment, such reports can include;

Profit and Loss Reports

Detailing information by Licensor, Title, Genre etc, providing the ability to analyze profitability based on user defined criteria.Historical Reporting – Using legacy data to provide analysis on performance of past contracts facilitating improvements for future contract negotiations.Profit and Loss Calculations for License Deals - Enabling the modeling of financial scenarios based on minimum guarantees and royalties.

360 degree overview of Revenues & Cash Flow

Based on information from the strategic program plan and linked to past historical advertising sales performance, revenue models for future income for one to two years in advance can be quickly modeled, giving a quick and simple overview of possible future revenue streams.

Real Overview of Cash flow

Through utilization of contract data, contractual obligations which are not invoiced are made visible, aiding further the effective planning of the company’s financial resources.

Currency Control

Having a contractually based 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. This enables finance teams to purchase forward at favorable rates rather than expensive spot purchases.

Creating Asset Visibility

Based on the current availabilities data in the connected License Module, you can automatically calculate the value of content that the organization actually owns. Categories such as ratings, platforms 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. Rules such as US GAAP, Sarbanes Oxley and others can be incorporated.

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. The system supports linear and run based depreciation as well as a combination of both functions. Depreciation calculations can be done very fast in just a few clicks, calculating thousands of content titles at one time. Depreciation calculations based on rules such as US GAAP, Sarbanes Oxley and others can be incorporated.

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 - Statements of Recoupment- Cross-collateralization. The ability to accurately calculate break even and the current status of recoupment of any single deal, the current financial status and cash flow implications based on the current sales in line with the contract.Audit Trail - Simplifies internal and external auditing, with clear traceability of royalty statements. Can be easily produced for sending to Licensors or their agents. 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.

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