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The expert accountancy team
for the media industry

About us

Saving you time and money

Media Accountants was founded in 2008 by Kamla Claire, a specialist TV Production Accountant with over 25 years’ experience. Media Accountants provide all levels of Accounting services including Bookkeeping, Production and Management Accounting. Kamla and her team have long been crunching numbers for top TV companies such as Blast Films, Chimp Productions, Unigram Media, The Smallest Cog and Grand Tour Productions.

The company has thrived through word of mouth and client recommendations. We have now grown into a multi-level financial services company for the whole media industry, providing a team of specialist, expert Accountants ranging from junior to senior level. Whatever financial challenge you face, whether it’s setting up a new production company or reconciling petty cash floats for an existing production, we can help. Our team of dedicated Accountants will provide accurate reports, information and solutions to help you achieve your goals. Our reports are easy to read and understand so that you can make important financial decisions.

We also cater to non-media clients who receive the same level of care and dedication. We are always ready to listen and will work with you step by step.

You are guaranteed a professional service at an affordable price.

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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

How we work

We’ve got your back

Dedication

Following an initial consultation with you, we will hand pick a dedicated Accountant or group of Accountants.

Flexibility

Our time can be increased or decreased to suit your requirements, as and when a production is commissioned or completed.

Expertise

All our Accountants are rigorously selected to ensure their experience matches our high standards.

Location

Our Accountants can work alongside you at your office, on location or remotely. We can adapt to your needs.

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Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou

Our services

Tailored to you

Media Accountants | TV production studio UK

Production accounting

We support your HoPs and Production Managers to ensure budgets and cost reports are accurate.

  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Budgeting
  • Contract Crew
  • Cost Reporting
  • Credit Card Analysis
  • Foreign Currency Negotiations
  • Maintain PO Log
  • Month End Reconciliations
  • Multi Currency Payments
  • Petty Cash Reconciliation
  • Production Accounting
  • Production Payroll
  • Withholding Tax & 46R-1 Submission

Media Accountants | TV and film accounting services and bookkeeping

Company accounting

From simple bookkeeping to VAT returns, we help you plan, prepare and troubleshoot all things financial.

  • Audit Preparation
  • Banking
  • Bookkeeping
  • Cash Flow Forecasts
  • Credit Control
  • Implement Systems
  • Invoicing
  • Oversee VAT & HMRC Inspections
  • Management Accounts
  • Payment Runs
  • Payroll
  • Profit and Loss Forecasts
  • VAT Returns

Media Accountants | media industry accounting and bookkeeping

More solutions

We offer further services through our Associates. We match you with trusted specialists who deliver an expert service.

  • Audit
  • Company Secretarial
  • Health & Safety Regulations
  • HR Services & Pensions
  • International Tax
  • Legal & Business Affairs
  • Pension Auto Enrolment
  • Production Management
  • Production Stationery
  • Self Assessment
  • Statutory Accounts Prep
  • Tax Credits & Grants
  • U.S. Workers Comp
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Accounts Software

If you’re using it, so are we

  • Kashflow
  • MYOB
  • Navision
  • PMI
  • Sage Accounts L50
  • Sage 200
  • Sage Payroll
  • TAS Books
  • Xero
When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron

Our team

Totally unfazed by a spreadsheet

Our Accounting team are carefully selected for their level of skill, knowledge and experience. All our Accountants have worked on many high profile television programmes and are experienced in various genres within the media.

We will only recommend the best Accountant with the appropriate level of experience for the job. If the right person isn’t available, we’ll discuss the options with you to find a solution. You will always receive an accurate and efficient service from our friendly team.

We are always on the lookout for more talented people to join us. To apply or recommend someone please contact us.

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6
Production Accountants
6
Bookkeepers
2
Management Accountants
6
Specialist Associates

Our clients

Feel free to ask them for a recommendation

Balberry Publishing
Blast! Films
Chimp Productions
Chump Productions
DCD Media
Drive Tribe
Echo Velvet
Flat 4
Grand Tour
Heels on Fire
Jive Maya
Little Gem TV
Minnow Films
Mojo Musique
MR Production
New Black Films
Peanut & Crumb
Red House
Rise Hall
Sugar Films
Together Films
Unigram
World's End Productions
York Notes
Youngest Media
Hindsight Productions Ltd
Five
Coast House
Honey Productions
Smallest Cog
BRIT 2016
BRIT 2017
BRIT 2018
BRIT 2019
BRIT 2020
Love Productions
Mercury Prize 2020
Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
Greer Garson

Team Credits

TV shows and films our team members have worked on

Let the credits roll!

Slide 8 Boys And Wanting A Girl
999, What’s Your Emergency? Series 3 to 6
A Place in the Sun
Adolf & Eva: Love and War
Anthony Gormley: How Art Began
Baby Borrowers
Before Grenfell: A Hidden History
Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding - Series 5
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
Born In The Wrong Body
Brain Surgeons: Between Life and Death
Brainiacs
BRIT Awards 2016 to 2020
Britian’s Biggest Bridges
Britain's Youngest Granny
Bus Driving School
Clarkson, Hammond & May - The Grand Tour
Cruising With Jane McDonald
Delhi Cops
Dogfest
Energy
Expedition Mungo
Famous, Rich and Homeless
Fighting Talk Radio Series 1 to 18
Forbidden
Forensics: The Real CSI
Geordie Shore Stunt
Grand Tour - Euro Crash
Grand Tour - Scandi Flick
Great British Bake Off (development)
Growing Gifted
Help, My House is Falling Down
Hidden Treasures of the National Trust
History of the Tube
Inside Legoland
Inside the National Crime Agency
Italia 90
Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
Johnny Vaughan's World Cup Show
Katy Brand's Big Ass Show - Series 1 to 3
Kill Your Friends (the movie)
Letterbox - Series 1 & 2
Life on Marbs
Manolo Blahnik - The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
Me and My Mum
My Online Nightmare
Naked
Night Bus
Plus Size Fashion
Puppy Love
Reggie Yates Extreme Russia (pre production)
Reggie Yates Extreme South Africa
Reported Missing - Series 1 to 4
Revolutions: The Ideas That Changed The World
Richard Hammond's BIG
Richard Hammonds Brain Reaction
Richard Hammond's Workshop - S1, S2 & S3
Sarah Beeny's Double Your House - Series 1 to 3
Sarah Beeny's Great British Christmas
Sarah Beeny's Sell Your Own Home
SAS: Who Dares Wins - Series 3
Saving Lives at Sea - Series 1 to 5
Secrets of the Museum
Secret Lives of The Zoo - Series 1 to 6
Sewing Bee
Sexbox - Series 2
Shakespeare in Love (the movie)
Shell - Brent Alpha
Shell - CleanTech Solar
Shell - Live Wire
Shell - Mexico Deepwater
Shell - The Value of Chemicals
Skint Britain - Friends Without Benefits
Stairlift To Heaven
Supervet - Series 2 to 7
The Big Hospital Experiment
The Carpenters: Their Greatest Hits
The Great Escapist with Richard Hammond
The Jonas Brothers Documentary
The Knowledge: The World’s Toughest Taxi Test
The Post Office Series
The Queen’s Big Night Out
The Railway 24/7
The Railways That Built Britain
The Supervet: Bionic Specials
The Tube
The Wheel Chair President
Tower Block Of Commons
Turtle Boy documentary (post production)
Trevor McDonald's Indian Train Adventures
Unplugged Nation - Series 1 & 2
Web of Lies – Series 2 to 7
Wedding Town
Young Mum's Mansion
Ziggy Stardust 50th Celebration














 8 Boys And Wanting A Girl
999, What’s Your Emergency? Series 3 to 6
A Place in the Sun
Adolf & Eva: Love and War
Anthony Gormley: How Art Began
Baby Borrowers
Before Grenfell: A Hidden History
Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding - Series 5
Bill Cosby: Fall of an American Icon
Born In The Wrong Body
Brain Surgeons: Between Life and Death
Brainiacs
BRIT Awards 2016 to 2020
Britian’s Biggest Bridges
Britain's Youngest Granny
Bus Driving School
Clarkson, Hammond & May - The Grand Tour
Cruising With Jane McDonald
Delhi Cops
Dogfest
Energy
Expedition Mungo
Famous, Rich and Homeless
Fighting Talk Radio Series 1 to 18
Forbidden
Forensics: The Real CSI
Geordie Shore Stunt
Grand Tour - Euro Crash
Grand Tour - Scandi Flick
Great British Bake Off (development)
Growing Gifted
Help, My House is Falling Down
Hidden Treasures of the National Trust
History of the Tube
Inside Legoland
Inside the National Crime Agency
Italia 90
Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
Johnny Vaughan's World Cup Show
Katy Brand's Big Ass Show - Series 1 to 3
Kill Your Friends (the movie)
Letterbox - Series 1 & 2
Life on Marbs
Manolo Blahnik - The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
Me and My Mum
My Online Nightmare
Naked
Night Bus
Plus Size Fashion
Puppy Love
Reggie Yates Extreme Russia (pre production)
Reggie Yates Extreme South Africa
Reported Missing - Series 1 to 4
Revolutions: The Ideas That Changed The World
Richard Hammond's BIG
Richard Hammonds Brain Reaction
Richard Hammond's Workshop - S1, S2 & S3
Sarah Beeny's Double Your House - Series 1 to 3
Sarah Beeny's Great British Christmas
Sarah Beeny's Sell Your Own Home
SAS: Who Dares Wins - Series 3
Saving Lives at Sea - Series 1 to 5
Secrets of the Museum
Secret Lives of The Zoo - Series 1 to 6
Sewing Bee
Sexbox - Series 2
Shakespeare in Love (the movie)
Shell - Brent Alpha
Shell - CleanTech Solar
Shell - Live Wire
Shell - Mexico Deepwater
Shell - The Value of Chemicals
Skint Britain - Friends Without Benefits
Stairlift To Heaven
Supervet - Series 2 to 7
The Big Hospital Experiment
The Carpenters: Their Greatest Hits
The Great Escapist with Richard Hammond
The Jonas Brothers Documentary
The Knowledge: The World’s Toughest Taxi Test
The Post Office Series
The Queen’s Big Night Out
The Railway 24/7
The Railways That Built Britain
The Supervet: Bionic Specials
The Tube
The Wheel Chair President
Tower Block Of Commons
Turtle Boy documentary (post production)
Trevor McDonald's Indian Train Adventures
Unplugged Nation - Series 1 & 2
Web of Lies – Series 2 to 7
Wedding Town
Young Mum's Mansion
Ziggy Stardust 50th Celebration

Testimonials

What our clients say

Kamla’s enthusiasm and engagement with business goes far beyond her undoubted and valuable abilities as an Accountant. She has helped shape and guide our businesses as they grow. As start-ups we need to be flexible and ready to adapt and move quickly and it’s essential for us that those qualities are to be found in our Accountants and with Kamla, they most certainly are. I’d recommend her to anyone in a heartbeat; as long as they don’t take her away from us!
Richard Hammond CEO, The Smallest Cog Limited
I have worked with Kamla at a number of production companies. Kamla ticks all the boxes of an excellent Production Accountant: she is diligent, flexible, a great communicator and always does more than asked of her in ensuring that production finances run smoothly. Kamla has extensive experience in the industry and an ongoing interest in the successful growth of businesses she works with.
Lewis HarradineHead of Finance, Blast! Films
Kamla has been a great support to our organisation over the past year and a half. As a start up company, she set up all of our processes and systems in an efficient manner and supported our understanding of all the compliance issues that we needed to be aware of. Kamla is also the most friendly accountant we have worked with and is a pleasure to have in the office. I would highly recommend Kamla to any creative business, and we regularly introduce her to friends and colleagues.
Sarah MossesCo-Founder and CEO, Together Films
Kamla is an extremely competent, reliable and highly experienced production accountant. She is trustworthy, clever and a great problem solver who always goes above and beyond the requirements of the job. I launched a start-up in 2022 and Kamla was the only person we wanted to run the day to day production accounts. She has an acute understanding of the industry and how it operates and her knowledge, guidance and expertise allowed our transition from selling ideas to the production of those ideas to be effortlessly smooth. She is also an absolute genius when it comes to her knowledge of systems and software and ultimately is an asset for anyone running a media company. Personally, I think we’d be lost without her!”
Tania Alexander, CEO Echo Velvet Limited.
I have worked closely with Kamla for over 20 years and throughout this time it has always been a tremendous reassurance that the most essential element of any production company - the accounts - are in the best possible hands. No one can match her honesty, commitment and experience. Her unique abilities have helped us from start up through to all sorts of productions of varying complexity and genre. Kamla is a wealth of knowledge that transcends her ability to master any accounts and even more importantly a lovely person to have in the office.
Gregor CameronFilm Producer, Unigram Media & World's End TV
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau

Latest blog posts

News and achievements from us and our clients

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999, What’s Your Emergency?

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Brand New Quiz Show

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