There are some final places available on the forthcoming FÁS Screen Training Ireland Essential Book Keeping Workshop taking place in Dublin on April 23.
The book-keeping workshop is devised for emerging producers, sole traders and small production companies.
The aim of this workshop is to enable participants to establish, understand and maintain a basic book-keeping system thereby ensuring good company financial management. Areas covered include:
• Accounting for VAT
• Director obligations/ company returns
• Basic book-keeping and software options available
• Banking and bank reconciliation
• Petty cash
• Creating management information
• Reporting requirements
Two experienced industry acocountants will tutor the course. Sue Henderson has been working for top production company Hells Kitchen for five years. Her credits include ‘In America’ and ‘The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse’. Billi Webster has been working as an assistant accountant in the film industry for 9 years. She has worked on such feature films as ‘In America’, ‘Breakfast on Pluto’, ‘Bloody Sunday’, as well as T.V. dramas such as ‘Any Time Now’, ‘Paths to Freedom’ and ‘Proof’.
To apply for this course contact Gráinne Tiernan at grainne.tiernan@fas.ie