By the time filming starts, there can be up to 40 people working in the picture car department building giant trucks, tracking paperwork and doing the accounting.
Comcast is still doing the accounting, but Mark Lazarus, the chairman of NBC Sports, said that because of higher ratings, it now expects to break even.
"While the footnote information allows you to dig in," she said, "it's not a substitute for doing the accounting correctly in the financial statements themselves.
Ms. Lambrecht Stillwell said her parents worked six days a week for 50 years, her father managing sales and her mother doing the accounting, while also making nearly daily trips to pick up parts.
"The picture's going to be, 'Look, what this is all about is the demise of a major corporation and an organization, Arthur Andersen, that was supposed to be doing the accounting," Mr. Parsons said.
When Al Gore blasted Mr. Pitt last weekend for having led the accounting industry's drive "to open up loopholes" in the 1990's, he could have been describing his own ticket mate, Joe Lieberman, who was second to none in doing the accounting industry's bidding.
"I've got Papa Jon nearby, Sister Becky doing the accounts, and Mother Mary working the phones".
"It's one thing to tell the other person they did the accounting wrong.
The math doesn't fit Spotify's benchmarks, but that is how their labels and publishers did the accounting.
