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 Accounting & FinanceBusiness Training Media offers a wide selection of accounting and business finance training resources. Topics include budgeting, balance sheet, income statement, cash statement, basic accounting and more.
 Featuring John Cleese and Dawn French The light-hearted approach of this world-famous video helps take the fear out of financial documents and complex concepts, and although accounts might never become a manager's favorite topic it does at least make them understandable. Using the device of contrasting the apparent worldliness of a well-educated company director and the business acumen of the streetwise owner of a small factory, we're shown how the whole process of business finance works. Because the success or failure of her manufacturing company is down to her, she knows the importance of understanding how money goes round the business and how to track and measure it - and she's happy to explain it in everyday language. Having been previously too embarrassed to admit his lack of knowledge, her grateful pupil learns the difference between key documents and the significance of the balance sheet, profit and loss accounts and cash-flow forecasts. The benefits
Release date: 1993 Program includes: DVD or VHS,(30 mins), Showreel tape Meeting break DVD, Course leader's guide, Delegate worksheets on disk, Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk and Self-study workbook on disk
 Produced - 1999 Having sustained its annual growth for decades, Berkshire Hathaway is one of the most profitable companies in existence today. In this rare interview, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and billionaire CEO Warren Buffett—second only to Bill Gates in personal wealth in the U.S.—discuss topics including how to target businesses for acquisition, the future of investment in a volatile stock market, why Berkshire Hathaway’s stock has never split, and Buffett’s ultimate entrepreneurial goal: to amass an immense endowment fund to benefit society. (25 minutes)
 Free working capital trapped in your organization. Free working capital trapped in your organization. Ready to grow, but wondering where the money will come from? Even a flourishing business can find itself hamstrung by a lack of ready cash. The Control Of Working Capital shows how to unlock cash that is tied up in unproductive aspects of the business. Carruthers (John Cleese) has struck out on his own! Since learning the basics of finance in The Balance Sheet Barrier, Carruthers feels ready to be his own boss. As he takes the financial reins of his new company, Carruthers is eager to implement his exciting plans, many of which use precious working capital. Fortunately, Carruthers has a financially savvy friend named Scroggs (Ronny Corbett) who is happy to explain the meaning of working capital. He shows Carruthers where working capital is locked up in the business and how to free it. To avoid future problems, Scroggs instructs Carruthers in two techniques of working capital control: sales forecasting and regular meetings of all people responsible for keeping down the level of working capital. Suggested Uses:
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Program includes: DVD(26 mins) & Course Leader's Guide. Produced in 1978
Once again Julian Carruthers (John Cleese) is on the receiving end of good advice from his patient friend Scroggs (John Bird). This time he learns the importance of valuing returns. This video unravels the complexities of return on investment by explaining the relationship between investment and profit, and establishing the true rates of return in the marketplace. Features and applications
 Free Online Preview - Part I The first part of this program, Profits of doom, looks at what the financial accounts are really saying. Andrew King (Robert Hardy) is offered the chair of Mega. He's ecstatic - until he consults his son, Peter (Jimmy Mulville). As Peter and Andrew pore over the data, Andrew's enthusiasm for Mega's apparently exceptional performance begins to wane. As Peter reveals the truth behind the accounts and explains such concepts as hedging and gearing it becomes clear that Mega has deep-seated problems. In What's good for the shareholder, a bullish Andrew announces that he has investigated Cosmic Corporation and decided to take the chair. Peter agrees the company is sound, but how does Cosmic use its assets? He shows the importance of comparing 'like with like', equating different ages and financing methods to gain a true picture. Shareholder value Peter also explains shareholder value. This means that Cosmic's shares must earn more than a risk-free investment. After his son's incisive analysis of what shareholders look for, Andrew decides he will no longer be looking at Cosmic. The benefits
Program includes: Part 1: DVD (30mins), Viewer's Guide and Part 2: DVD (30mins), Viewer's Guide
Examine how algebraic functions are used in business and finance to calculate and compare rates of simple and compound interest, to store products, and to track profit and loss in a business setting. Includes five segments.
Featuring John Cleese
Three factors determine profit - cost, price and volume. What isn't so simple is balancing the relationship between the three. If the mere mention of fixed and variable costs, break-even points, contribution, depreciation, marginal and total absorption costing, brings a glazed look to your eyes it is likely that you have never seen this witty and brilliantly simple explanation. Features and applications
Program includes: DVD (23 mins)
This innovative program uses the simple experience of running a lemonade stand to provide participants with a foundation in the basics of accounting. Based on the popular seminar series, this program covers the three common accounting statements:
Scenarios are given that help participants see how different business transactions affect the statements. Key Learning Points:
Includes: DVD or Video, one student workbook, a CD-ROM with printable leader's guide and customizable PowerPoint Presentation
Produced: 1996
To help managers appreciate the importance of budgets to business activity and to give guidance on building up and controlling a budget. The owner of a small manufacturing business (John Cleese) finds himself in a typical predicament. Sales are up 50 percent on the previous year but profits are down. His knowledgeable friend is able to explain that the increase and the extra expenditure it incurred were not previewed in the original budget. Features and applications
Program includes: DVD or Video (30 mins) & Course Leader's Guide
Produced - 1999 Buying and selling like lightning, a 27-year-old multimillionaire day-traded his way to a fortune via the Internet, while two Cornell University students launched an online community that, at its initial public offering, was valued at $194 million. In this program—filmed at the height of the Internet boom—day trader Scott Friedman and the "twenty-something" founders of TheGlobe.com discuss their remarkable successes. In addition, financial experts including Deutschebank’s Ed Yardeni and Richard Quest, the BBC’s U.S. business reporter, voice their views on the new Internet/Wall Street synergy. (23 minutes)
Produced - 1997 Its investment in global development programs tops $150 billion. It dwarfs other United Nations agencies both in size and scope. Yet until this two-hour program was filmed, no camera crew had ever been allowed access to the inner workings of the World Bank. This two-part documentary provides a rare glimpse into both the inner workings of the World Bank and its efforts to bring economic stability to Africa. A case study tracks the fortunes of proposed development projects in Uganda over a twelve-month period. Through it, we become privy to how decisions are made, who benefits and why, and what happens when World Bank and Ugandan policies clash. Actual footage of closed-door meetings and private conversations between officials provides insights into negotiations conducted at World Bank offices in Washington, DC, and in Uganda. (2 parts, 50 minutes each)
Produced - 1997 How is the word "capital" related to "cattle"? What does the goddess Juno have to do with money? And is a "buck" related to a male deer? This intriguing documentary investigates the evolution of money and its impact on world history. Composed of a seamless flow of artwork, artifacts, archival footage, and film shot on location, the program spans 5,000 years, beginning with the agrarian settlements of the Neolithic period. The contributions of the ancient and modern worlds—including coins, commerce, banking, paper money, credit cards, ATMs, e-commerce, and even smart cards—are all touched upon in their turn. Of special note is an examination of the forces that have prompted these innovations and their effects on society. (55 minutes)
Produced - 2005 Let the Standard Deviants help your students make sense of the stock pages (and learn the rudiments of big business and personal finance in the process!) with this lively ten-DVD set. The Basics: The Standard Deviants jump into the role of financial manager, so prepare your students to roll up their sleeves and pick a type of business, choose a corporate structure, maximize shareholder wealth, and explore different kinds of markets. Assets and Liabilities: The Standard Deviants spill the beans about annual reports, interest rates, real rate, risk premium, the yield curve, the time value of money, and future value. Money Management: The Standard Deviants will show viewers how to plot a future path for their money by addressing annuity due, present value, opportunity cost rate, perpetuity, interest rates, and EAR. Investing: Focusing on risk, the Standard Deviants explain how to roll the dice the smart way—by understanding probability distribution, expected rate of return, distribution curves, risk and standard deviation, the coefficient of variation, and the correlation coefficient. Diversification: The Standard Deviants tell why diversification is music to an investor’s ears as they talk about CAPM, Beta, required rate of return, market risk premium, security market line, and risk-free rate. Bonds: The Standard Deviants will help your students bond with bonds by explaining par value, coupon payment, maturity, bond present value, discount and premium bonds, YTM, and preferred stock. Important Concepts: The Standard Deviants continue their mission to boldly explore strange new financial concepts as they inform viewers about common stock, dividends, present value, the Gordon Growth Model, expected value, supernormal growth, the cost of capital, WACC, and cost of debt. Cost: The Standard Deviants bravely face up to the costs of doing business, including the marginal cost of capital, the cost of debt, the cost of preferred stock, the cost of retained earnings, and WACC. Corporate Finance: The Standard Deviants show how big companies are really a lot like the average wage earner (and vice versa) as they talk about three types of capital projects, capital budgeting, payback methods, NPV, IRR, MIRR, and cash flow. Raising Capital: The Standard Deviants play pirate as they buy a new ship to go a-roving, making stops along the way to discuss NICO, operating cash flow, net disposal cash flow, depreciation, MACRS, evaluation, and capital budgeting for replacement. Not available for preview. Can be viewed using a DVD player or computer DVD-ROM drive. Recommended for grades 9+. Ten 26-minute DVDs.
Produced - 2007 Some people have a hard time qualifying for a loan, while others can walk into a bank empty-handed and leave with thousands of dollars in credit. The same goes for credit cards—although most consumers carry several, for an unfortunate few they are out of reach. But no matter how easy or difficult it is to borrow money, one thing is certain: paying it back is the real challenge. This program helps high school and college-level viewers understand the basics of financial credit systems, the best ways to obtain and manage credit, and how credit decisions can influence one’s future. Focusing on credit cards, car loans, student loans, and mortgages, the program offers lighthearted dramatizations that illustrate good and bad borrowing and spending habits and highlight discipline as the key to a great credit rating and sustained financial health. Students will also encounter the four C’s of lending—capacity, credit, capital, and collateral. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act. (25 minutes)
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