Harvard business reports (1930)

ig8 HARVARD BUSINESS REPORTS Exhibit io Weekly Production Control Report Used by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation Studio Home Actual Estimated Weeks Negative Story Office Cost Finished Budget in Cost Overhead to Date Cost Process 13 C-, > SI o v o 0) stima e care affect "3 > "o o w1^ o 6 M >> ^ i B^ .2 ° o o n hO 44 $m+> 12 "^ 3 =3 eg * 8.3 13 to o 03 > ach ch w ns t 1 cos Includes includin date. PL| o U O Cumulat] Varies e given ea conditio the tota financial control of the production department In order that the company's executives might have a bird's eye view of the current financial status of production, they were furnished with weekly summary reports giving cash disbursements for each feature picture, and total expenditures for all feature pictures. Such reports were sent from the Hollywood studio and from the Long Island studio. Separate expenditure reports were submitted for short subjects, which were produced only at the East Coast studio. An estimated final cost schedule, shown in Exhibit n, presented a detailed report of expenditures of individual productions as contrasted with their respective established budgets. Half-year summaries listed the actual results without reference to the expected results. Half-year summaries for the previous four years were made available for current use by the general production manager. Current records of receipts from pictures were maintained for executive use. These records served as guides regarding public opinion and, as such, regulated production. Exhibit 12 shows a record of profit, giving a comparison of the total negative cost of pictures with the actual receipts from those pictures. Exhibit