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Creative Accounting

Hosted by Claude Brodesser-Akner Aug. 08, 2005 Entertainment

Attorney-CPA Steven Sills speaks with Claude Brodesser about how Hollywood studios use "creative accounting" to turn a movie that grosses $100 million into a net loser.

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