Steven D. Sills, Partner

Steve has over 25 years of entertainment accounting experience. His specialty involves audits of production and distribution of motion pictures and television programs on behalf of third party participants. Steve's other areas of expertise include merchandise licensing royalty audits and valuation of film and television properties and libraries. As a consultant, he has given expert testimony in entertainment litigation, been a contract negotiator for profit and royalty participants and participated in settlement negotiations of audit claims. Before founding Sills & Gentille in 1990, Steve spent 13 years at the CPA firm of Laventhol & Horwath.

Steve is an attorney, CPA and Forensic CPA. He has been a featured speaker at the California Society of Certified Public Accountants and New York CPA Foundation, as well as the UCLA and USC film schools. In addition, he taught a profit participation in film and television class at UCLA. Steve's publications include the following:

• Profit Participation in the Motion Picture Industry, Los Angeles Lawyer, April 1989
• Participants in the Motion Picture Industry, Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook, 1987
• Movie Money: Understanding Hollywood's Creative Accounting Practices, 1998 (2nd edition published in 2006). Available on Amazon.com.

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