Setting Up A Small Business
39 mins, 2020 This is about two young people who set up their own high-tech business — and did it their way. Alex Eyres and Roxanna Barnard set up Sound Technologies Ltd in 2015. The business supplies and installs audio visual equipment for domestic customers and corporate clients — that includes home cinema, also sound… Read more »
Financial Decisions 2: The Small Business
20 mins, 2010 This dramatised case study highlights key financial issues in family firm Logical Friends. Lively scenarios outline typical financial dilemmas and viewers are invited to consider possible solutions. CRISIS, WHAT CRISIS? Logical Friends is a small computer business in financial difficulties. Sales have been falling for two years and if the trend continues… Read more »
Finance In Business 1: Starting A Business
29 mins, 2005 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,… Read more »
Financial Management
29 mins, 2009 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… Read more »
Managing The Money
32 mins, 1996 How does a firm plan and monitor its financial performance? This video looks at the experience of Linda and Brian who run a small business. How they first set up their business is told in the film Into The Fire. Now several years after setting up, Linda explains how their financial systems… Read more »
Basics Of Finance 2: The Balance Sheet Explained
23 mins, 2001 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… Read more »
Financial Decisions 3: The Manufacturer
20 mins, 2010 Blakeway boss Stephen Maynard is fighting for profits in the highly competitive world of printed circuit board manufacturing. Dramatised scenarios illustrate the company’s problems – the viewer is invited to consider solutions. WE’RE NOT A CHARITY: Blakeway has two factories and one of these, its Lake End plant, is underperforming. A major… Read more »
Finance In Business 2: Established Business
26 mins, 2005 How does the established business get finance? Dave Nellist makes the points, illustrated by real-life case studies. SALES REVENUE is, of course, the best finance a business can have, because it’s self generated. “Retained profits” can be ploughed back into the business without any of the “strings” attached to loans and shares…. Read more »
Basics Of Finance 1: Are We Making A Profit?
23 mins, 2001 A light-hearted case study offering a clear guide to the financial ideas businesspeople 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… Read more »
Where Does All The Money Go?
33 mins, 1996 Money is the life-blood of a business. We look at how it works in one company – Avalon Travel, a holiday tour operator. We explore where the business got its initial start-up finance and describe the indirect and direct costs which it has to meet in order to stay in business. We… Read more »
Financial Decisions
29 mins, 1998 Three case studies show companies trying to make tricky financial decisions. Viewers are invited to consider what they should do. 1. Cash flow crisis: How can Comtex solve its cash flow problems? Should they cut costs or ask for an overdraft? The sales director, Tony Spence, proposes a radical solution – duck… Read more »
Accounting & Finance Clips 3: Budgeting
23 mins, 2011 Clips explain and illustrate the importance of budgets and budgeting using a variety of case study examples. CLIP 1: INTRODUCTION TO BUDGETING (5 mins) What are budgets? How do they work? In Blakeway Ltd budgeting is vital to their manufacturing plans – but budgets depend on sales forecasts which are notoriously unreliable…. Read more »