(8) Finance & Accounting Titles from TVChoice

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1. ARE WE MAKING A PROFIT? - The Basics of Finance I (23 minutes, 2001)
2. THE BALANCE SHEET EXPLAINED - The Basics of Finance II (23 minutes, 2001)
1. FINANCIAL DECISIONS (30 minutes) (1998)
Case Study 1: Cash Flow Crisis. Sales are falling and photocopier company Comtex is running out of cash. Should they negotiate an overdraft, look for a partner or talk to their creditors? Sales director Tony Spence advocates less ethical tactics to improve the company's position.
Case Study 2: Spending the Profits. Travel firm Avalon has £200,000 of accumulated profits sitting in its bank. What should they spend it on? Buying their premises? Developing a new product? A staff bonus? Or a share dividend?
Case Study 3: The Takeover Bid. Simco is the subject of a takeover bid. Should the board recommend it to the shareholders? In theory, the directors will decide the question on financial grounds, but in practice, there are many other considerations.
2. WHERE DOES ALL THE MONEY GO? (33 minutes) (1996)
Money is the life-blood of a business. But where does the money come from? Where does it go? And what documents are used to record the key transactions? This video tells the financial story of holiday company Avalon Travel. It is divided into six sections: Starting up, direct and indirect costs, ordering, invoicing, costing and pricing and finally, making a profit. Each part uses the travel firm to illustrate exactly what is involved under each heading.
3. MANAGING THE MONEY (31 minutes) (1996)
"It's all very well having a product to sell, but if you don't keep control of the money, then it can all go down the drain."How does a firm plan its finances and monitor its financial performance? This video combines clear explanations with illustrations from the real world of business.Linda is in charge of the money side of a small business making wrought iron products. She set up the company with her husband fiive years ago and although they have had many financial trials and tribulations things have improved a lot. As she goes through the various aspects of her work, she highlights the central role financial control now plays in the business.
4. NICE IDEA, WHAT ABOUT THE FINANCE? (19 minutes) (1990)
Marketing manager David has a great idea for a new product, but how does he sell it to the financial staff in his company? This entertaining drama explains key concepts invaluable for understanding how finance works in a business.This is the first in a series of three videos, entitled "Financial Issues in Management."
5. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING (18 minutes) (1990)
How does a company calculate the costs of producing a new product? This video tells the story of David, a keen young marketing manager, who has got the go-ahead to develop a new product. But before he can proceed he has to work out exactly what the cost to the company will be. This means producing a detailed financial plan for his project.This is the second in the three video series, "Financial Issues in Management."
6. MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING & DECISION-MAKING (17 minutes) (1990)
David has launched a new product and it had sold even better than he had expected. He is full of high hopes and is planning a European launch. Then comes the bad news: Sara, the firm's management accountant, says the launch is postponed. David is horrified and wants to know why.Third title in the series "Financial Issues in Management."
7. THE BALANCE SHEET (28 minutes) (1990)
The balance sheet is one of the most important documents a business produces. It is a guide to the financial health of a company. It's used for making key decisions. But what is it and how do you make sense of it?This video tells the story of a newly promoted manager who finds that to do his job properly he has to have an understanding of how his firm's finances work. This involves getting to grips with balance sheet and learning how to extract valuable information from it.
8. ACCOUNTING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (23 minutes) (1993)
Most companies make key commercial decisions on the basis of how much money they're going to make, without taking into account the environmental costs.Professor Rob Gray argues that to sustain the natural world companies need to take radical action. To be really "green", Gray maintains they have to change their financial and accounting systems - but how?Gray explains the variety of measures companies can take. One step is to get managers to subtract environmental costs from profits. A more proactive approach is to use environmental criteria to evaluate their investments. However, the most advanced position is to incorporate the concept of sustainability into a company's accounts.
9. COMPUTERISING ACCOUNTS (22 minutes) (1988)
How does a company's accounts system work and how can it be computerised?This video demonstrates the operation of the principal elements of the accounts in a small company, including the sales, purchase and nominal ledgers, and the role of documents such as invoices and purchase orders.
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