Telefilm Canada Accounting and Reporting Requirements (ARR), 5 March 2024
Source: https://telefilm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/accounting-reporting-requirements-2024.pdf
Telefilm's Production Program page (read through a fetch summary because direct fetch returned 403) lists this document as 'Accounting and Reporting Requirements (2024)' and the 2016 ARR for agreements between April 1, 2016 and March 5, 2024; that listing was not mechanically quote-verified.
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"usefulness": "Telefilm's 21-page production-accounting standard for funded features: separate books and bank account, final cost report and audited/reviewed final certified activity cost statement thresholds, supporting documents and 5-year retention, producer-fee and overhead budget locks, discounts, completion-guarantee rebates, interim financing, assets, non-Canadian costs, foreign currency, related-party transactions, versioning and non-monetary transactions.",
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"Scope is Telefilm-funded feature films (the document defines 'Production' as a feature film development, production and distribution project); Canada Media Fund linear TV has its own ARR (docs--cmf-fmc-ca--appendix-b-business-policies).",
"Amounts printed with '$' and no explicit currency; Canadian context.",
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}Evidence claims
- [sourced_fact] The ARRs apply to productions whose financing agreements were entered into on or after March 5, 2024. · locator: s1 Introduction source
- [sourced_fact] Audit of the final certified activity cost statement is required for budgets in excess of $500,000. · locator: s2.1 source
- [sourced_fact] Budgets of $250,000 or less submit an uncertified final cost report with a declaration. · locator: s2.1 source
- [sourced_fact] Applicants keep books and documents for five years from the year the production was completed. · locator: s2.2 source
- [sourced_fact] Expenses without an invoice and proof of payment are inadmissible. · locator: s4.1.1 source
- [sourced_fact] Evaluation or approval of the budget is not final acceptance of the expense items in it. · locator: s3 source
- [sourced_fact] The budget can never be the sole justification for an expense. · locator: s3 source
- [sourced_fact] Productions keep separate books of account for each production. · locator: s2 A source
- [sourced_fact] Productions maintain a bank account into which all financing is deposited and from which costs are paid. · locator: s2 A source
- [sourced_fact] Producer fees are summary code 4 of section A of the Telefilm budget. · locator: s4.2.1.1 source
- [sourced_fact] Fixed corporate overhead is item code 72.01 within section D of the budget. · locator: s4.2.2 source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
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