Whose Business?
28 mins, 2005 How do you define a business? Is it the people who work for it? Or is it figures on a balance sheet? This thought-provoking film explores the different ways of looking at a business using case-study examples. BUSINESS ACTIVITY: Any business, whatever size, has inputs, functions and outputs – but external factors,… 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 »
How A Business Works
23 mins, 2004 What makes a company tick? This video explains basic business functions inside Cameron Balloons, the world’s largest maker of hot air balloons. Marketing: Like all firms, Cameron has to market its balloons. Specialist publications, “word of mouth” and the internet are vital parts of its “marketing mix”. Production: We show how a… Read more »
Business Structures
26 mins, 2004 You can’t see it, but it’s probably the most important thing in a business – its structure. This film offers a comprehensive guide to business structures with a range of examples, including Daimler Chrysler, Easy Jet and Stena Line. FUNCTIONS: The most common business structure is by function – such as marketing… Read more »
Organisations Compared
26 mins, 2002 [wpdm_package id=’4982′] Organisations are everywhere. Millions of people get their living from them. But why are there so many different kinds? Dave Nellist takes us on a light-hearted tour of the basic types of organisations and explains how they work. TYPES OF BUSINESS: Within the private sector, Dave explains the principles behind… 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 »
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 »
Starting A Business: The Café Bar
30 mins, 2000 The film tells how Dave and his brothers set up a cafe-bar. They get planning permission, they design the interior, open up and customers pour in. But six months on, there’s a crisis. Money’s going out as fast as it’s coming in. And a lack of control means they don’t know where… Read more »
How To Do A Business Plan
30 mins, 1997 Every business needs a business plan — but how do you put one together? Jay, a clothes designer, and Robin, in the forestry business, explain how they wrote their business plans. Objectives: the business plan has to state what the business has been set up to do. Marketing: the plan describes the… Read more »
What Is A Business?
22 mins, 1995 A clear explanation of the features common to all businesses. The film takes us on a tour of a toy firm and explains how staff tackle day-to-day problems. We look at how the business is organised: the company structure and its aims and objective. We explore how they develop a new product… Read more »
Into The Fire
27 mins, 1992 The story of Brian and Linda on the perilous path to running their own business. We see them visit the bank and an investor to try to raise the money. We see them acquire their premises and hire their first member of staff. At last they start up – and everything goes… Read more »
Staying There
23 mins, 1991 Setting up a company is one thing – but how do you ensure it survives in the long term? Rose Toys, once a highly successful manufacturer of model trains, is in crisis. Sales of its traditional products are falling. Harold Rose, its founder, is on the verge of retirement, but is reluctant… Read more »