Chapter 9 The Master Budget
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Real Life Mini-Case
1. Budgeting for a movie can be challenging. Frequently, budget items change as the movie production progresses.
factors.
2. What reasons can a movie director have for misrepresenting the overall budget for a particular movie? Is
misrepresenting a movie budget unethical? Do you think that misrepresenting a movie’s total budgeted
expenditures to the public harms anyone?
A movie director may misrepresent the overall budget for a movie for a variety of reasons. The director could
3. “If a Hollywood movie’s box office number exceeds its production budget, then that movie makes a profit.”
4. Sometimes actors, directors, and producers are asked to take a lower salary up front and instead receive a
percentage of the film’s overall gross profits (from box office receipts, DVD sales, and similar revenue streams).
Why might the film company propose this arrangement? Why might the actors, directors, and producers accept
this agreement? Would this type of arrangement (lower salary up front with a percentage of the film’s gross