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The Stanford Video Guide to Financial Statements: A Tale of Two Restaurants - DVD

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This award-winning video is designed to take the guesswork out of your financial reports. It tells the story of two employees who have to decide which of two restaurants up for sale is the most sound purchase. Along the way, they get a detailed analysis of each restaurant’s financials, including the balance sheet, inventory accounting, and operating vs. non-operating income. The success of your business is based on profits and losses; an acute understanding of what goes into your financial statements can help keep you on the plus side.

Stanford professor George Parker provides both line-by-line explanations of the three key financial statements used by US companies, and offers logical, common-sense approaches to interpreting what they reveal about profitability, value, and the ability to pay bills.

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Return on Investment - DVD

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

  • A straight forward explanation of what a budget is, why it works, and how it is put together
  • Excellent use of graphics to aid understanding

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Cost, Profit and Break-Even - DVD

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

  • It explains how costs are calculated and their effect on the business
  • It confirms the importance of controlling expenditure and revenue
  • Assumes no prior knowledge of finance
  • Plain English is used throughout

Program includes: DVD (23 mins)

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The Balance Sheet Barrier - DVD

Featuring John Cleese and Dawn French

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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

  • Assumes no prior knowledge of finance
  • Well-presented and structured video that ensures all managers understand how key financial statements are calculated and what they mean
  • Imaginative use of graphics to emphasise key points
  • Financial jargon is avoided in favour of everyday language

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

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Learning The Accounting Game: The Basics - DVD

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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:

  • The balance sheet
  • The income statement
  • The cash statement.

Scenarios are given that help participants see how different business transactions affect the statements.

Key Learning Points:

  • The basic accounting equation
  • Cost of goods sold
  • How profit relates to cash

Includes: DVD or Video, one student workbook, a CD-ROM with printable leader's guide and customizable PowerPoint Presentation

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The Control of Working Capital - DVD

Free working capital trapped in your organization.

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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:

  • Finance for non-financial managers.
  • Business skills.
  • For all employees in self-directed teams and 'open-book' companies.
  • Understand financial terminology.
  • Understand key financial documents.

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize both the financial and human sides of working capital control.
  • Understand the connection between time and money.

Program includes: DVD(26 mins) & Course Leader's Guide. Produced in 1978

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Budgeting: Constructing and Controlling Budgets - DVD

Produced: 1996

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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

  • A straight forward explanation of what a budget is, why it works, and how it is put together
  • Excellent use of graphics to aid understanding

Program includes: DVD or Video (30 mins) & Course Leader's Guide

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Business & Professional Ethics For Directors, Executives & Accountants - Book

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Author: Brooks, Leonard J./ Dunn, Paul
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Publication Date: 2009/03/04
Number of Pages: 575
Binding Type: PAPERBACK

  • Business & Professional Ethics For Directors, Executives & Accountants - Book $99.00 [Add to Cart]
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Century 21 Accounting General Journal Approach - Book

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Title: Century 21 Accounting General Journal Approach Author: Ross, Kenton E./ Gilbertson, Claudia Bienias/ Lehman, Mark W.
Publication Date: 1998/08/01
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Binding Type: PAPERBACK

  • Century 21 Accounting General Journal Approach - Book $34.95 [Add to Cart]
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Introduction to Financial Management - DVD

This program provides an introduction to the following concepts: an Overview of Financial Management; Financial Statements; Analysis of Financial Statements; and the Financial Environment. (51 minutes)

Copyright - 2005

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The Stanford Video Guide to Financial Statements: A Tale of Two Restaurants - DVD

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This award-winning video is designed to take the guesswork out of your financial reports. It tells the story of two employees who have to decide which of two restaurants up for sale is the most sound purchase. Along the way, they get a detailed analysis of each restaurant’s financials, including the balance sheet, inventory accounting, and operating vs. non-operating income. The success of your business is based on profits and losses; an acute understanding of what goes into your financial statements can help keep you on the plus side.

$195.99 [Add to Cart]