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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 47 min.)
Language
English
Description
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical, politically viable solutions to these problems have been few and far between. This illustrated presentation from distinguished historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz is a rare...
Series
Basics of finance volume 2
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 23 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Accounting and finance clips volume 3
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
4 online resources (4 video files) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
v. 1. 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. Variance analysis is used to track the difference between estimates and reality. Budgets can be used to make staff more accountable and set priorities - but sometimes managers use up current budgets simply for fear of losing their money next year! --v. 2. A manager uses...
Author
Series
Financial Peace University volume 4
Publisher
Lampo Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 1 hr., 10 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Debt is the most aggressively marketed product in history. And it isn't just sold by banks and credit card companies anymore. Many national retail chains make more money on the sale of credit applications than they do on the actual merchandise they sell. In Dumping Debt, Dave blows the lid off the credit game, debunking the leading myths about debt that have become ingrained in our natural way of thinking. Then he walks you right out of debt with...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
4 online resources (4 video files) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Financial Peace University volume 3
Publisher
Lampo Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 58 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Personal money management expert Dave Ramsey provides step-by-step instruction on how to budget your money so that you can learn to live on less than you make, pay your bills, save money, and still have some cash left for fun.
Series
Basics of finance volume 1
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 23 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
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. But even established businesses have cash flow problems. We look at the role of OVERDRAFTS in helping them through. How does...
Series
Basics of finance volume 1
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 23 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 32 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Accounting and finance clips volume 4
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
4 online resources (4 video files) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
v. 1. A new salad bar chain is chasing growth - but will it run out of cash? Tossed is the baby of twenty-something entrepreneur Vincent McKevitt who aims to make big money out of healthy eating. The business is successful, but if he tries to grow it too quickly, he risks running out of money. We eavesdrop on a critical meeting with his business advisor. --v. 2. Cash flow isn't about how much money you're making - it's about when you get paid for...
Series
Accounting and finance clips volume 2
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
4 online resources (4 video files) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the early 1900s, and weather-beaten cowhand Hewey Calloway rides in from the vast Texas range after learning his brother's farm is in danger of foreclosure. Arriving in a nearby town, what the middle-aged roughrider finds amazes yet threatens him - automobiles and civilized society.
14) Joyful noise
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the church choir to lift their spirits by winning the national Joyful Noise Competition. But the discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear everything apart.
Series
Accounting and finance clips volume 6
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
4 online resources (4 video files) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
v. 1. Vital to commercial success is how well businesses control their costs. These come in two basic types: direct and indirect. But in the real world classifying costs is rarely clear-cut. Manufacturer Blakeway Ltd divides its company up into cost and profit centres to help it monitor how different parts of its business are performing financially. But there's disagreement inside the company about how to act on the figures. --v. 2. Acme Whistles...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 98 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
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...
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Rental.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick, Dale, and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investor's adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.
18) Education inc
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
American public education is in controversy. As public schools across the country struggle for funding, complicated by the impact of poverty and politics, some question the future and effectiveness of public schools in the U.S. For free-market reformers, private investors and large education corporations, this controversy spells opportunity in turning public schools over to private interests. Education, Inc. examines the free-market and for-profit...
Publisher
WAG TV
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 56 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
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,...
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