Chapter 619: PricewaterhouseCoopers

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The money on the Hong Kong side is enough for the time being, and Li Mingbao also wants to be clear about the amount of funds, but the most troublesome thing is the industrial capital situation on the US side. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBecause Li Mingbao is not in the United States all the year round, and the industrial development there is also changing with each passing day, a month's capital income is not a small amount, plus some necessary investments, although there is a professional team of lawyers to monitor the entry and exit of each fund, and Li Mingbao also appointed a professional financial team to strictly supervise the funds. But after all, the industry is somewhat scattered, and a single fund can be easily found, but it is more troublesome to summarize.

Summing up such a thing is not a big deal for an ordinary company, and it is not a big deal for Li Mingbao, who has a lawyer team and a financial team. But the problem is that Li Mingbao's previous industries in the United States have not been summarized at all. In other words, if you want to summarize, then Li Mingbao must count everything from the time he went to the United States, such as bill income reimbursement, all again, which is not a simple matter.

A company is not afraid of such a summary, after all, Li Mingbao's industries have their own statistics every year, and the general ledger will not be bad, but some classified accounts are more vaguely managed, and the annual statistics cannot meet the requirements and standards at all, and the most troublesome thing is that Li Mingbao's industry over there is not only one company. Rather, there are three large companies, and there are some sub-categories underneath. That's the real big problem.

The accounts of Li Mingbao's patent sales company are very easy to calculate, they are not a company, they are completely managed by a team of lawyers, remove the cost, and then look at the total income, how much money can be seen at a glance, which is relatively simple. But the accounts of DreamWorks are more troublesome, DreamWorks has developed to the present, it is no longer a simple film production company, if it were just that, then DreamWorks would not be called the fastest growing large film company by Hollywood, a large film company has more industries to do, even in Hong Kong, film companies like Golden Harvest have a lot of industries, and some additional transactions are also counted on Golden Harvest's head.

Hong Kong is still like this, not to mention the large film companies in Hollywood, not only need to make movies, but also need channels, plus Li Mingbao's DreamWorks film products, many times, are taken the videotape route, so the channel, the construction of DreamWorks is not bad, mergers and acquisitions plus their own capital investment, up to now, not to say that it completely covers the entire North American market, but as long as there are some potential cities, DreamWorks' video tape channels have been paved to those places. The construction of the channel alone, DreamWorks has spent nearly 50 million US dollars in cash before, and this is only a preliminarily successful channel, if you want to completely improve it to become an influential channel like a giant, the minimum requirement is more than 200 million US dollars, and the maintenance cost on weekdays is not low. Otherwise, why would there never be more than ten giant film companies in Hollywood? Isn't it because of such channel costs, not every film company has the ability to improve.

And channels like Li Mingbao are much simpler than those Hollywood giant film companies, and the most important and important task of this channel is relatively simple, just the distribution of videotapes. And like those giant film companies, the degree of perfection of their channels is not comparable to small channels like Li Mingbao at all, and any of their channel nodes have the ability to independently complete the distribution, distribution, publicity and marketing, and other tasks. Compared with a simple channel like Li Mingbao, it is definitely a difference between heaven and earth.

Therefore, it is basically difficult to calculate an accurate number, but fortunately, Li Mingbao is not doing total asset statistics, but just counting things like cash flow. Not to mention Li Mingbao, on the side of the Twentieth Century Fox Company, they want to count such a thing as an exact company's output value, and they can only rely on a professional statistical team, relying on themselves, and there is no possibility of completing it. In fact, as long as it is a large-scale industry company, how much is their own assets, and if they really want to calculate an exact data, they must rely on third-party institutions to complete the statistics. In this world, only professional statistical companies can count these things, and unprofessional statisticians will never be able to touch a single hair if they want to rashly take over this piece of business.

And this is not the most troublesome company, the really troublesome company is the kind of company that even a third-party statistical company can't count, that is the real troublesome company, even if it is a professional statistical company, I dare not say that it can count such a company, at most it can roughly estimate the value of the company, as for the details, hehe, people are tired to death can't be counted.

Since Li Mingbao wanted to count the cash flow of the industry in the United States, Li Mingbao naturally couldn't continue to be idle, so a week after receiving John's call, after counting how much cash flow he had in Hong Kong, Li Mingbao called Mary from DreamWorks and asked her to come forward and ask a professional company to make statistics on the cash flow of her American industry.

Although in these years, people on the Hollywood side generally use Arthur Andersen, but Li Mingbao does not trust Arthur Andersen's credit so much, after all, an Arthur Andersen who collapsed because of Enron, how high their reputation is, this is only known to God, Enron's collapse, to say that Arthur Andersen did not play some key role in this, killing Li Mingbao does not believe it, an institution that can help other companies make fake accounts, can also hide from their subordinates to deceive their own boss, as long as the interests are enough, Their credibility is toilet paper, and PwC's credit, although it is also not completely reassuring to Li Mingbao, at least the cost of buying them will be higher than the cost of buying Arthur Andersen. If his subordinates really use their own money to damage the public and private interests, then PwC's discipline must be better than Arthur Andersen, and it is not the turn of the people below to buy these giants in their own industries, after all, the benefits are greater than the costs, and they do not have the capital to buy.

In this matter, checking cash flow is Li Mingbao's most important business, but for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Li Mingbao's requirements are not only in this aspect, the company in the United States, the mountain is far away, although he sent some reliable personnel to monitor, but this does not make Li Mingbao sit back and relax, there are really people who want to exploit loopholes, so even if Li Mingbao is there every day, it is easy to have problems.

Since the establishment of the company, there has not been a real inventory, so this time Li Mingbao is ready to check the company thoroughly by checking the cash flow problem. People who really have to make small moves, should have popped up in the company a long time ago, after all, several years of comfortable time, enough to make any vigilant person, no vigilance, this investigation, will definitely be able to find out some problems, not too serious, Li Mingbao is not ready to put much effort to rectify, but if some people are excessive, then it is better to clean it out as soon as possible.

This can also make the people at DreamWorks have a shackle in their hearts. Although the profitability of DreamWorks Film Company's side is high, it is not enough for Li Mingbao to make such a vigilant role, after all, at the beginning, Li Mingbao just regarded the company as a grazing cow, and when the cow is fat, it can be taken out and sold, as long as the articles on the surface are passable, and the company's operation is similar, so some small problems, Li Mingbao is too lazy to care, and he should give benefits to those people.

But now the interests involved in DreamWorks are far from what Li Mingbao planned before, so the importance of DreamWorks is also highlighted. In addition, now on the DreamWorks side, there is not only a film company, but also a program production company, and Li Mingbao can ignore the interests of the film company, but Li Mingbao can't pay too much attention to the TV program production company.

In the past, although Li Mingbao also wanted to conduct a thorough investigation, he suffered from the lack of a suitable excuse, coupled with the lax management in the past few years, and rashly made such a come, which was easy to affect the stability of the company. But now that there is a new and more profitable company, coupled with the problem of his need for cash, Li Mingbao has the most suitable excuse to conduct a big inventory of his company.

But if there is a problem, Li Mingbao doesn't mind letting them go in to eat the nest head for two years. Not only can you clean up the company's atmosphere, but you can also deter the new DreamWorks program production company, and you can also find out how much money you have in your hands. There are so many benefits, even if the price of PwC is expensive, Li Mingbao also admits it, if there is no such a professional company to make an inventory of his company, it makes no sense to rely on himself.

Mary has no objection to Li Mingbao suddenly having to check the company's accounts and calculate the cash flow, as a person with great professional ethics and his own ideals, the temptation of money is not too great, so she has no problems at all, and even she has mentioned to Li Mingbao before that she wants to check the company, and it is best to form a routine in the company with such work. But at that time, Li Mingbao had no good excuse, so he refused, and this time Li Mingbao suddenly put forward such an idea, and Mary naturally supported it.

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