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Accounting and finance clips volume 3
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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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...
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"An invaluable resource for those starting a new business or veterans looking for a better way, this book offers unconventional but proven strategies to run a better small business. It also provides a roadmap for owners looking to expand their small business by doing more business with Big Business."--
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Accounting and finance clips volume 2
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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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...
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Accounting and finance clips volume 6
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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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...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Three businesses and three business plans. Why did they need them? What did they put in them? Were they worth it? 1. Aims and objectives: Every business plan should have a company's aims and objectives. The Croft Tea Room has the ambitious aim of helping to regenerate the run-down area of St Mary Cray. And linked to a firm's aims will be a description of its product or service. In the case of the Spoonfed company this is a website where you find...
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Basics of finance volume 1
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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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...
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Basics of finance volume 1
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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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....
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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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...
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"Despite the recent influx of entrepreneurship, most new entrepreneurs (and even those with a little more experience) are finding themselves in chaos, not the liberated state they hoped to discover. They are trapped, controlled, and consumed by their own businesses. Instead of finding more time, money, and freedom in entrepreneurship, small business owners are overwhelmed with customers, prospects, management of employees, marketing, sales, accounting,...
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Accounting and finance clips volume 4
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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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...
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Basics of finance volume 2
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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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...
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A no-holds-barred look into the minds, motivations, and machinations of how investors and founders team up to build a successful startup, debated in a brazenly honest way by two of the best in the business.?
People imagine that the best way for founders to build billion-dollar startups is to team up with venture capitalists. The founder brings the vision and drive, the investor brings the money and years of experience, and both benefit from each other's...
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I don't know what I should be doing to market my business.
I don't have time to commit to marketing.
I tried marketing in the past and it hasn't worked.
If you're struggling with marketing, this book is for you.
Someone decides to become a customer of your business because you have something they want or need. But first, they have to know you have something they want or need. How you tell them is through marketing.
Forward Thinking...
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More individuals become millionaires by listening and adopting the principles from this program than from any other sales training program, according to a study of trainees who attended radio training. With this document alone, I've educated over 500,000 salespeople throughout the world, for thousands of firms, and in practically every industry. This program is quite effective!
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From Limiting Beliefs to Limitless PossibilityAre you ready to ignite your inner innovator and embark on a journey of entrepreneurial discovery? "Unleash Your Inner Entrepreneur" is your guide to unlocking the hidden potential within you and turning your million-dollar ideas into reality.In this inspiring and practical book, you'll discover the secrets to embracing your innate entrepreneurial spirit. You'll learn how to break free from self-limiting...
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Book 2 in the series of stand-alone, hands-on guides to managing the ins and outs and ups and downs of starting and growing a small, micro or one-person business driven by personal values and offering the unique lifestyle of self-employment. This volume focuses on organizational learning and why a Good Business needs to be a "learning organization."Table of ContentsThe Good Business: Becoming a Learning Organization* I Have Seen The Future And The...
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Despite the fact that most owners of small and medium size businesses work hard in their businesses, failure rates remain as high as 80% within the first 5 years. Something must be wrong! In Put Your Business on Autopilot in 12 Months or Less, Greg Roworth suggests that most businesses are actually built on a fatal flaw?-the harder you work, the harder it is to succeed in your small business. Put Your Business on Autopilot in 12 Months or Less shows...
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The strong do not always survive but those who plan well usually do, despite how strong of weak they are. Patience is what you need to be successful. You need to pace yourself and do what needs to be done to survive. By starting now you may just survive another month. Once you know you have all that is required, never ever give up as you will never be bound by other people's limitations again.
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This book charts the turnaround of the Asda business, from the perspective of culture and people. The author discusses 7 principles which businesses can use as practical tools to generate high performance through engagement. This is a business book which uses the technique of storytelling to stimulate the reader, and uses case study material to back up the learning. The reader will take away a practical agenda, to improve the performance of any business....
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How do you build the kind of company you've always wanted to work in-one that serves people and the planet while being financially successful, too? What do you do when you believe that business should serve the common good, but everyday business pressures-meeting payroll, battling competition, keeping customers and investors happy-are at a fever pitch? Leading a small business when you measure success more broadly than with a single financial bottom...
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