App: Film TV Budgeting for Excel
Developer: BBP Software
Genres: Business, Finance

Since 1993, filmmakers have been using BoilerPlate's powerful and affordable film budgeting templates to generate fully-detailed, industry standard motion picture  production budgets and reports quickly and easily. 

BoilerPlate's 42 budgeting worksheet templates working in conjunction with the Summary Top Sheet will give you a highly accurate budget of what your next film or TV production will really cost. BoilerPlate Film TV Budgeting for MS Excel include the following features:

No spreadsheet programming required. Just fill in the budgeting information and costs in the designated cells of the 42 worksheet templates and BoilerPlate will generate your production budget Top Sheet and reports automatically. BoilerPlate is packed with budgeting features that will make production managers happy. Its exclusive Cash Flow Sheets with built-in accounting of expenses allows you to input all your expenses in each category, automatically recalculating so that you'll always know how much money is spent and how much remains in your budget during production.

Budgeting for film, television, and video Projects: BoilerPlate is especially designed for budgeting full length feature films. You can also budget television projects, documentaries, commercials, and music videos. Industry Categories with Detail of Accounts: Where necessary, all industry standard categories and accounts are expanded and fully-detailed so there is no mystery where the budgeted amounts are being spent.

Global Entries: Change your entire budget instantly. Change production header information, fringes, payroll taxes and sales tax rates. Change your shooting period (days) and see how your total budget is affected instantly.

Estimated Fringes and Taxes: Fringes, payroll and sales tax are computed instantly and automatically to the appropriate accounts. If fringes and taxes do not apply you can simply delete them from the entire budget with a simple push of a button in Globals.

Instant Calculation: When you make a change, the budget totals are recalculated instantly. Actual costs, including fringes and taxes, are always reflected automatically in the totals of the budgeted amounts.

Cash Flow Sheets with Built-in Accounting of Expenses: Input your costs for every production period to control your budget. Cash Flow Totals for the development, pre-production, production and post-production periods are linked to your Summary Top Sheet in the Total Accumulated Cost to Date column allowing for quick and easy monitoring of costs to date and the amount of the remaining budget.

Automatic Top Sheet Report and Lists: The Summary Top Sheet, Cast List, Extras & Atmosphere List, Property List and Location List are automatically generated as you complete your budget worksheets.

Quickly and Easily navigate to all your Budget Worksheets: When working on a large spreadsheet document like a film and television budget, having quick access to desired budget accounts and worksheets will save you time and frustration. BoilerPlate templates give you a few different ways to move to a desired worksheet. One of BoilerPlate's unique navigational feature allows you to instantly go to a specific category account while reviewing the Summary Top Sheet. Want to make a budget adjustment in a category as you review the Top Sheet? Just click the "GOTO" button on the category line you are reviewing and go instantly to that worksheet. 

BoilerPlate's beautifully laid out worksheets will also make your printed budget document an impressive addition to your financing package on your next film TV project.

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