In this new 2021 high-definition program, learn all about basic finances and investing. Understand how to earn, save and invest one's money and why it is important to develop budgets for spending. Detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting videos reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.

Jay expands his financial enlightenment. The profit and loss account (as described in The basics of finance I: are we making a profit) tells him a lot, but only the balance sheet will reveal to him the overall “financial health” of his company. Jay's friend takes him through the balance sheet explaining the key terms: fixed/current assets, current/long-term liabilities, creditors & debtors. She also shows him how to extract some basic financial...

You can have a great product, great marketing ideas, but if you don't understand how finance works, you're in trouble. This is an entertaining guide to sources of finance for business start-ups. CASE STUDIES: Using real-life businesses, the film illustrates the pros and cons of different sources of finance. Loans are repayable, with interest, regardless of the company's ability to pay. Share capital is more flexible, but it means losing some control....

A light-hearted case study offering a clear guide to the financial ideas business people need to grasp. Jay's business, designing websites and CDs, is doing well. But then he meets an old friend who's now an accountant. She gives him some tough lessons on the value of accounting knowledge and takes him through the basics of finance. Just because there's a lot of cash floating around in the business doesn't mean that this money is profit. How much...

The film explains how two very different types of business manage their finances - high-flying salad bar chain Tossed and SRA, a social enterprise dedicated to helping people with mental health problems to get back to work. SOURCES OF FINANCE: Before you can do anything you need money. Tossed founder Vincent McKevitt deliberately avoided selling equity in his business, relying instead on loans from wherever he could get them. By contrast, as a social...

Challenges the current premise of global warming, suggesting that the chief cause of climate change is not human activity, but changes in radiation from the sun. Scientists in the film set forth scientific and historical proofs to support their arguments and claim that global warming advocates have created a mass hysteria that has no basis in reality. They also examine the censorship and intimidation experienced by dissenting scientists, perpetrated...

v. 1. How does a business choose between different sources of finance? Is it always better to get money from inside the company than get an overdraft or loan or to sell shares in the firm? And what are the pros and cons of selling assets to raise finance? --v. 2. Divine Chocolate found its funding in a novel way - by giving an ownership stake to the cocoa farmers which supply its beans. This source of finance fits well with the fair trade company's...

Pink ribbons...they're everywhere: tee-shirts, hats, yogurt cups, KFC buckets, car ads, NFL stadiums...the list goes on and on. They make us feel good, as if we're all engaged in a successful battle against breast cancer. But who is really benefiting? After all, more and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Maybe it's the companies who wrap their products in pink to gain our admiration (and money)... and wouldn't it be something...

A struggling actress needing work becomes a maid for a wealthy and respected former politician, who has a habit of rubbing people the wrong way.

Gordon Smith, head of the Collum Collum Aboriginal Co-operative which operates a cattle station in northern New South Wales, and Sunny Bancroft, the station manager, are negotiating with the Aboriginal Development Corporation in Canberra for a loan. Finance is needed to stock the property with breeding cattle so that the station can become financially independent. The film details the frustrations of negotiating with a distant bureaucracy while,...