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Standard Deviants School: Finance Super Pack - DVD

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.

  • Standard Deviants School: Finance Super Pack - DVD $399.99 [Add to Cart]
Warren Buffett: The Ultimate Entrepreneur - DVD

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)

  • Warren Buffett: The Ultimate Entrepreneur - DVD $149.99 [Add to Cart]
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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