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Thinking about a career in production accounting? I’m not one to sugarcoat things. It can be a rewarding job, but it’s not a glamorous life of parties, red carpets, and flirting with actresses. Before you sell your car, move to Hollywood, and start working for free, let me illuminate the big reasons you don’t want to be a production accountant or line producer.

Scanners are indispensable in creating and filing digital copies of the documents we use in production. So, if you’re going to acquire a printer, you might as well go for one that makes your job easier and faster.

Studio Binder is a digital platform a few of my clients use in production for managing stuff like call sheets, contact list, script breakdowns, shooting schedules, tasks, calendars and files. It’s a one stop shop for production companies to essentially get rid of the paper that we all get on a regular basis.

We receive a huge amount of paper from many different places (inbox, email, dropbox, under the door, etc) when processing payroll and that’s not going to change any time soon. It may one day all be digital, but right now, only a portion of the paper is collected digitally. The payroll services offer digital time cards and some documents are collected digitally in start packets, but their offerings are inadequate and doesn’t reduce our rate.