Screenwest / AFTRS Production Accounting AcceleratorScreenwest / AFTRS Production Accounting Accelerator Application Deadline

Screenwest has identified a current industry skills gap in production accounting. To address this skills gap, Screenwest in partnership with Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), is offering a one-off opportunity for a practitioner to up skill and accelerate their career by gaining an AFTRS Industry certificate in Production Accounting.

Run by Managing Director of Money Penny, Jane Corden, this course is designed to fast track people with an accounting or bookkeeping background.

This is a two-step initiative, offering the recipient industry certificate training, followed by a professional attachment on a Screenwest funded production in the second half of 2019.

The Industry certificate course is delivered over 12 weeks. The funded recipient will learn:

• How to apply accounting technologies and workflows;
• A strong understanding of the stages of productions and their financial reporting obligations and requirements and
• The specialised skills required to work as an assistant production accountant.

The aim is to fast track to a career in production accounting or be immediately able to be a production accountant on a low budget production.

Course Dates and Requirements

• Course dates: 8 July ? 30 September

Applicants will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with a camera and sound for the evening Zoom video sessions. There is regular online work to be completed between face-to-face sessions. It is recommended allowing at least 8-10 hours per week of study time.

• Mandatory workshop dates: 13 & 14 July and 3 & 4 August 2019 at AFTRS in Moore Park, Sydney.

Please visit the Production Accounting Accelerator page on the Screenwest website to download the guidelines and application materials.

All program guidelines are to be read in conjunction with the Screenwest Terms of Trade.

Applications close Monday,24 June 2019 at 5:00pm AWST.

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