GHJ is sponsoring the ACG Entertainment Industry Event. What is the outlook for California’s entertainment industry as it confronts new financial, cultural and technological pressures as well as a changing audience? Come hear the answers at the June 4th breakfast meeting of ACG 101 at the Westlake Village Inn. Date: Wednesday, June 4th, 2014Time: 7:00 a.m. [...]

GHJ invites you to our second nonprofit workshop of 2014 featuring the latest in accounting and tax updates. Attendees will learn about various topics, including recent recommendations from the FASB’s Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee, the new Federal grant reform guidance, the latest revisions to the Form 990 and highlights of the proposed Tax Reform Act o [...]

Akash Sehgal, Tax Director, is speaking at the Not-for-Profit Organizations Conference on May 21st at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco.Date: May 21, 2014Time: 12:35pm – 2:15pmLocation: Grand Hyatt San FranciscoFor additional information click here.To register for this event click here.

Akash Sehgal, Tax Director, is speaking at the Not-for-Profit Organizations Conference on May 20th at the Westin Los Angeles Airport. Date: May 20, 2014 Time: 12:35pm – 2:15pm Location: Westin Los Angeles Airport For additional information click here. Click here to register.

On May 19th, GHJ welcomes you to an “invitation only” networking event for thought leaders in the entertainment industry. With the addition of Cedar Boschan as a principal and music practice leader, we continue to expand and enhance our leadership in film, TV, video games and music accounting. We offer the largest entertainment royalty audit team in the U [...]

Michele Gentile is speaking at the Women in Film and Television International Summit on May 16th in Pittsburgh. Dates: May 16, 2014 – May 19, 2014 all-day Location: Westin Convention Center Hotel 1000 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Cost: Early Bird – Women In Film Members: $325.00 Early Bird – Non-Members: $375.00 Day passes also available For more infor [...]

California recently issued Franchise Tax Board Chief Counsel Ruling 2013-04, which deals with the sourcing of management fees for nonresidents of California for services provided to a private equity fund (“PEF”) and to the fund’s portfolio investments where the services were performed wholly in California. This tax alert contains information on the followi [...]

Tom Barry, partner, wrote the article “Changes in Private Company Reporting” in the April 2014 edition of the Long Haul Newsletter Historically, accounting standards have not differentiated between public and privately held companies when it came to financial reporting. What was right for a Fortune 500 publicly traded company applied to every business, large [...]

Ilan Haimoff, Partner, is a guest speaker on the Risk Assessment Approach to Monitoring Royalty Streams panel at the IIA-LA Fraud Conference. Ilan heads our Entertainment Practice. Time: 2:00pm (Ilan Haimoff, guest speaker) 8:00am – 5:00pm (All Day Conference) Location: Los Angeles Athletic Club (LAAC) 431 West 7th Street Los Angeles, CA 90014 For more inform [...]

Ilan Haimoff, Partner, is speaking on the Production Incentives & Fraud Panel at the Association of Film Commissioners International. Ilan heads our Entertainment Practice. Production incentives have been in place in the U.S. for over 12 years, and available in international jurisdictions for even longer. With the help of Film Commissions and related Produ [...]