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13chapters
112modules
14+hours
8specialist tracks
The curriculum
13 chapters
Ordered beginner to advanced. Expand any chapter to preview its modules.
Specialist tracks
8 disciplines
The core curriculum covers the full industry picture. Each track curates the modules most relevant to one discipline and adds glossaries, checklists and process guides specific to the role. Complete a track to earn a credential.
Tour Accounting
Settle a show, read a deal memo, and keep a touring party compliant across borders: the night-by-night money behind a live run.
Tour accountants, business managers and live-side finance staff10 core modules
Royalty Administration
Register works, match the money, and run a clean royalty run: the operational discipline behind every statement that goes out.
Royalty administrators and accounting teams at labels, publishers and distributors10 core modules
Royalty Audit
Examine a payor’s books, find the leakage, and quantify a claim: the forensic discipline of checking that statements told the truth.
Royalty auditors and forensic accountants acting for rightsholders10 core modules
Catalogue Valuation
Model what a catalogue is worth, diligence the rights behind the number, and frame the tax of a deal: thinking like a buyer.
Catalogue analysts, fund associates and advisers on rights transactions10 core modules
Treasury & Cash Management
Manage lumpy, multi-currency music income: forecasting, FX, tour floats and the timing of a feast-and-famine year.
Business managers and finance staff running an artist’s or company’s cash8 core modules
Artist Personal Bookkeeping
Keep an artist’s records clean and decision-ready: the structures, expense judgement and team commissions behind a tidy year.
Bookkeepers and junior business-management staff supporting individual artists10 core modules
Year-End & Financial Reporting
Reach the right year-end treatment for music: catalogue amortisation policy, advance capitalisation, and income recognition: context for judgement, not journal entries.
Reporting accountants and finance leads closing the books for music businesses10 core modules
Music Tax & International
Navigate the tax of a cross-border music career: withholding, treaties, VAT/place of supply, structures and reliefs.
Tax-focused accountants and advisers on international music income8 core modules
Ready to start?
Begin with the foundations
The course runs in order: where your money comes from first, then deals, statements and catalogue maths. As you go, it tracks what you've mastered.