Auditing & Professional Consulting Services
International Services
Media Audits International, Inc. (MAI)
As a result of the acquisition of the audit practice of MAI, CAA will now offer
a full array of affiliate and consulting services to International clients
worldwide. International clients now receive the following benefits from our
services:
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Increased accuracy in your billing/subscriber database
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Improved affiliate relations
Service Offerings / Information Provided
The following services are tailored to meet the needs of
International Networks while taking into consideration the circumstances in
each Country in which we operate.
| 1 Subscriber Audits |
| 2 Physical Audits |
| 3 PPV and VOD Audits |
| 4 Piracy Detection |
| 5 Identification of hotel and commercial establishments |
| 6 Basic, digital and premium subscriber counts by
headend/city |
| 7 Channel lineups, packaging and pricing |
| 8 Other technical information including Homes Passed and
Bandwidth |
Experience
| South/Central America |
Caribbean |
Europe |
| Brazil
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El Salvador |
Aruba |
France |
| Bolivia |
Guatemala |
Barbados
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Germany |
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Chile |
Honduras |
Bonaire |
Great Britain |
| Columbia |
Mexico |
British Virgin Islands |
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| Costa Rica |
Panama |
Cayman Islands |
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| Ecuador |
Peru |
Dominican Republic |
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Venezuela |
Grenada |
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Puerto Rico |
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U.S. Virgin Islands |
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Increased Cash Flow
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Greater operational efficiencies
Physical Audits / Cable System Valuation
International auditing sometimes presents additional challenges. Governmental
and legal infrastructures do not always ensure the same level of financial
reporting requirements. Programmers face additional hurdles in enforcing their
affiliation agreements, including audit clauses and required documentation.
Adequate legal remedies are not always available. As a result, an accounting
audit is not always sufficient to properly determine subscriber or system
valuation.
Physical Audits may be necessary in the absence of reliable subscriber billing
documentation. With the assistance of an experienced engineer, CAA performs the
following additional procedures as necessary:
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A walkout of the system network to determine the location of the trunk lines
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Identification of the network components including nodes, amplifiers and taps
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Physically counting subscribers at the tap to project system subscribers
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An audit of the System’s headend to verify the channel lineup, packaging and
addressable subscribers
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Mapping of the system’s trunk lines, nodes, amplifiers and taps counted using
GPS technology
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Piracy detection
Other Network Services
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