These are a few videos about accounting in our databases. Search for more by visiting Kanopy, Alexander Street, Films on Demand, and Academic Video Online.
This is a small selection of videos available in the Kanopy streaming video database.
20 mins
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. Setting up a business is not easy. It takes luck, determination and good control of the money side.
Accounting and Finance - Decision-Making Tools
32 mins
This introductory lecture unpacks some key concepts in accounting and finance; dispels some common myths about accounting; and gives you a helpful overview of three essential statements companies routinely prepare to communicate critical financial data to shareholders and owners.
23 mins
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 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 of it is owed to his creditors? Maybe Jay's making money now, but what if there's a downturn in his main markets?
This is a small selection of videos available in the Films on Demand video database.