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 »
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 »
Behind The Adverts
30 mins, 2001 Everywhere we go we’re bombarded by signs and images. Many of these are adverts carefully designed to get us to part with our money. But what are they doing to us? What are they doing to the world? 1. A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY: In Britain for a long time there simply… Read more »
Business Systems
28 mins, 1998 The video demonstrates how a firm’s information systems work through a lively, dramatised case study, set in the backstabbing world of the Comtex copier company. Systems examined include invoicing, email and customer database. Comtex boss Tony Spence wants “push-button” efficiency, but things don’t go to plan.
Business In The Economy 1: South Wales
34 mins, 1997 What drives a market economy? The video visits South Wales to explore this question. It illustrates primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and explains basic economic terms – demand and supply and the market price. In the 1980s many Welsh coal pits were declared “uneconomic”. The miners disagreed and fought a bitter battle… Read more »
Communication At Work: Introduction & Case Study
28 mins, 2012 Why is communication important in business and what happens when communication goes wrong? INTRODUCTION 15 mins Good communications are essential in any business – and there are many different kinds of communication. There’s one-way and two-way, formal and informal, open and closed communication. Emails and the internet have made a big impact… Read more »
China’s Pollution Busters
31 mins, 2009 China’s rapid industrialisation has come at a heavy price – polluted waterways and huge health problems. This film follows two Chinese environmentalists risking threats and violence to locate the factories polluting their water. CHONGQING: The film begins in Chongqing, one of China’s new mega cities, home to six million people, and a… Read more »
Converging Technologies
31 mins, 2008 In 1994 it would have taken about seven days to send someone a copy your holiday snaps. Now using a digital camera and email it takes about ten minutes. This fast-moving documentary takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the world of convergence. TECHNOLOGY CHANGE: In the early days computers were huge… Read more »
Cola Conquest II: How Coke Took Over The World
39 mins, 2008 This award-winning film tells the story of how Coca-Cola became the world’s most famous multinational company and follows its quest to be the globe’s number one beverage. HOW IT STARTS: The Second World War prompts Coke’s global expansion as every US soldier gets a bottle of Coke for five cents. Bottling plants… Read more »
Cola Conquest I: A Classic Marketing Story
42 mins, 2008 This award-winning, US documentary explores the advertising and marketing techniques behind Coca-Cola’s historic success. Drawing on a wealth of archive material and interviews with key industry figures, the film offers a powerful insight into Coke’s commercial and social impact. BIRTH OF MODERN ADVERTISING: Coke begins life as a “brain tonic” for business… Read more »
Case Studies In Recruitment
30 mins, 2006 Getting a job is one of life’s big challenges. But how does it look from the employers’ point of view? This documentary looks at how a small business, a hospital, and a supermarket recruit their staff. SMALL BUSINESS: Small business SNS supplies computer networks to schools and has to work out their… Read more »
Can You Be Sure Of Shell?
30 mins, 2006 Shell is one of the richest companies on earth. It does business in 140 countries dealing with 25 million customers every day. It claims to be dedicated to renewable energy and sustainable development. But is Shell as green and clean as it claims? This film offers a profile of this famous multinational,… Read more »