Close the books the way you opened them — professionally.
Production finance doesn't end at wrap. It ends when every dollar of investor money has been accounted for — when Budget, Actuals, Commitments, Estimate to Complete, and Estimate at Final Cost are reconciled in a single document. That's the Cost Report.
loqyn's Cost Report is production-grade variance reporting connected to the same budget your entire finance stack is built on. No re-keying actuals into a separate spreadsheet. No manual reconciliation across disconnected files. The audit trail that closes out the investor relationship properly.
Start free on Spark. Cost Reporting available on Screen Radiant.
Wrap is done. Now my investors want to know exactly how their money was spent. The budget says one thing. The actuals say another. And I've got a week to reconcile them before the audit.
The Cost Report is the financial endgame of every funded production. It's the document that shows investors, completion guarantors, and financiers that every dollar was spent as agreed — or explains why it wasn't. Budget versus Actuals. Commitments still outstanding. The Estimate to Complete. The Estimate at Final Cost. Variance analysis across every budget category.
Most producers build this in a spreadsheet that has no connection to the budget it's supposed to reconcile against. The actuals are re-keyed. The commitments are estimated. The ETC is a guess. And the whole thing takes days to produce — days that should be spent closing out the production, not debugging a spreadsheet.
- Cost Reports are built in spreadsheets disconnected from the production budget — actuals are manually re-keyed
- Variance analysis requires comparing two documents that were never designed to talk to each other
- ETC and EFC are estimated informally — there's no systematic way to project final costs from current data
- Investors and completion guarantors expect regular cost reports during production — not just at wrap
- No budgeting tool includes variance reporting — the audit trail is always a separate, manual process
Budget, Actuals, Commitments, ETC, EFC — one document
The Cost Report reads your budget and gives you a structured framework for tracking actuals and commitments against it.
The financial audit trail that closes the loop.
Screen Radiant is the complete operational finance toolkit for funded productions. Cost Reporting sits alongside Cashflow, Drawdown Schedule, and Recoupment Waterfall — every document your production needs from greenlight through to final audit.
The investor relationship doesn't end at wrap. It ends when the numbers are reconciled — and the Cost Report is the document that does it.
Close the books as professionally as you opened them.
Start free on Screen Spark. Build through the finance stack. Upgrade to Radiant when production is funded and you need the full operational toolkit — including the Cost Report your investors will ask for.
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