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Andrew B Koski Instructor Information

Partner

Miller Kaplan Arase LLP

  • Member since 2014
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Andrew Koski is a partner specializing in royalty and participation inspections for licensing, royalties, profit participation and contract compliance for film, television, music, consumer products and multimedia. He is a contributing author to an authoritative licensing guide, and instructs classes and speaks on emerging issues related to royalties and production accounting. His professional background includes considerable in-house and consulting experience with entertainment studios and networks.

 

Experience

Partner : Miller Kaplan Arase LLP - [2006-11 to Current]
Performs inspections for licensing, royalties, profit participation and contract compliance for film, television, music, consumer products and multi-media.

Director Production Accounting & Audit : Sony Pictures Entertainment - [2004-04 to 2006-10]
Responsible for all first run and cable accounts receivable billing, estimation of bad debts, worldwide bank reconciliations for production accounts, implementing Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, transitioning accounting systems to SAP, operational inspections of productions, and all guild related PH&W contribution issues.

Manager, External Audit : CBS Television - [1998-08 to 2004-04]
Conducted and supervised several hundred compliance inspections related to production costs and contractual requirements for suppliers of programming to CBS. Led CBS’ response to the industry wide survey requested by the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producer’s) which quantified an eight year period of overall revenues and expenses for all CBS programs by show and season. This information was subsequently used in aggregate by the AMPTP during the above the line guild negotiations (DGA, SAG, WGA). Tasked with analysis of projects such as foreign tax incentives, distribution acquisitions, system implementation and production overhead

 

Education

MBA, Accounting and Operations : Freeman School of Business (at Tulane University ) - [1990 to 1992]

B.S., Nautical Science : United States Merchant Marine Academy - [1976 to 1980]