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 »
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 »
Fair Trade And Chocolate
30 mins, 2010 Buy a bar of fair trade chocolate and help people in the developing world, too. This is the unique selling point of Divine Chocolate – but is it too good to be true? SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: Divine was set up a co-op of cocoa farmers in Ghana to give them a share in… 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 »
Fair Trade In Action
29 mins, 2008 What is fair trade? How does it work in practice? What difference is it making to people in the developing world? This is the story of fair trade fashion company People Tree SWEATSHOP LABOUR: The UK fashion business is worth over £40 billion annually. But beneath the industry’s glamorous façade, there’s an… 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 »
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 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 »
Flattening The Organisation
42 mins, 1993 What does a company do when it wants to flatten its hierarchy? Lloyd’s Bank decided to send some of its information technology staff on an extraordinary training weekend to prepare them for revolutionary change. They dress up as King Arthur and his men, and undertake all kinds of strange “quests”, designed to… Read more »