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Subjects: General Business

  • Bargain Hunting Adds Up to Unexpected Costs

    Author Ellen Ruppel Shell talks about her new book “Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture.”

  • FRONTLINE: The Untouchables

    Are the CEOs of mega-banks too big to jail? Though fraudulent practices at banks contributed to America’s financial meltdown, to date no Wall Street titan has been convicted of a crime connected to the crisis. FRONTLINE investigates why Wall Street’s leaders have escaped prosecution.

  • FRONTLINE: Cliffhanger

    This February, as the nation faces yet another round of fiscal crises, FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, FRONTLINE goes behind the scenes to show how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the “fiscal cliff,” and now to a second round of standoffs over the debt ceiling and sequestration. The film explores the deep ideological divide inside the Republican Party and the struggle between House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner as they take on President Obama and the Democrats.

  • Financial Reporting For Business

    Accounting reports convey vital information about cash, profit and financial position to the owner and key stakeholders of a business. This program explores the content and format of the three key accounting reports: the cash flow statement, profit and loss statement and balance sheet. Insights are provided from real business owners/managers about how these reports are used within the business for analysis and decision making.

  • Australian International Business: A Case Study

    We are often alarmed to see how many businesses are being bought out by foreign companies. This program case studies Intrepid Travel, an Australian business, operating in Australia which is sucessfully competing in international markets.

  • Change Management in Large Organizations: Smoking Laws – A Case Study

    Large organizations only survive in today’s highly competitive environment if they have the ability to effectively deal with change. External changes such as changes to the smoking laws have forced change upon hotels and other venues. This program looks at how a major entertainment complex which includes a hotel and casino has effectively managed this change process in response to the new laws.

  • Australia – An Economic Profile

    Australia – An Economic Profile

    Using key economic indicators such as GDP, employment and exports figures, this video examines the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of the economy. Particular emphasis is placed on the Australian landscape and climate, and how these effect the production of goods and services in Australia. Areas covered include the agricultural and mining sectors, fishery, forestry, manufacturing, tourism and a case study of a service industry.

  • Important Concepts

    The Standard Deviants continue their mission to explore strange new financial concepts, to seek out new stocks and new diversifications, to boldly split infinitives as everyone has done before.

  • Cost

    This program is all about cost. You’ll learn cost of capital, cost of debt, cost of preferred stock and the cost of retained earnings.

  • Corporate Finance

    Find out what you and companies have in common. Here’s a quick peek. Both you and companies worry about budgets and projects. But do you worry about them the same way?