Moore Kingston Smith

We are the only firm of media and entertainment accountants and advisers with a dedicated office of over 100 media specialists that proactively support the extensive range of needs of independent media businesses – covering marketing services, film &TV, theatre, actors and entertainers and gaming.

We know it’s not just about the numbers. As well as providing accountancy, tax and corporate finance services, over the years, by working with some of the industry’s most successful companies, we have developed a deep understanding of what drives media businesses. As your trusted advisers, we use this experience to work in partnership with you to help maximise your growth and profit potential. We conduct extensive research into industry performance every year with a view to understanding not just the benchmarking data, but also identifying what the best performers do to achieve exceptional results. Our well-developed structured approach to our strategic advisory services helps you effectively manage risks, build revenues, attract and engage people and identify key opportunities to improve performance and enterprise value.

All this means we are well placed to support you throughout the whole of your business lifecycle:

• Start up and small businesses – let our one stop shop approach take care of all your needs, including set up, company secretarial, legal, outsourcing, payroll, accounts and tax

• Growing and mature businesses – we can support you as your business grows with our award winning technology enabled audit approach, accounts preparation, tax compliance and advisory services such as People Advisory and employee incentives

• International – we can leverage off of our membership of Moore Global (a network of accountancy and advisory firms in over 100 countries) to take the pain out of expanding into unfamiliar territories. We can co-ordinate your international audit requirements, and advise on international tax

• Exit planning – our media specialist award winning M&A team, with hundreds of transactions under their belt, will ensure you are well prepared for any transaction and maximise the proceeds from the value you have created within your business

We have hundreds of clients across the media sector who all benefit from our very personal partner led approach, providing the very best guidance, expertise and specialist sector insights.

In short, we’re more than just media accountants who count your numbers – we’re business partners whose ambition is to help you grow your numbers so that you realise your fullest potential.