Publishing, Media, and Communications

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

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