California liberals use the same accounting tricks in reverse to “prove” that Obamacare is going to save us money and cover even more people.
Actually the primary trick Hollywood uses is the shell corporation. When they start a project they make a company, that company has 1 asset: the budget of the movie. That company exists to spend the budget and hand the movie to a different company (the real company), it doesn’t own the movie or anything relating to it, and it’s not cut in on the revenue stream. So since that company only spends and never receives the movie never makes a profit. Neat trick.