Pretend you’re a pirate in the Lesser Antilles and you want to raise capital to buy a new ship to raid along the Mexican coast. Does that sound difficult? Don’t fret. Stick around for cash flows and more capital budgeting, and let your pirate dreams come true.
Subjects: General Business
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Money Management
The Standard Deviants help you navigate a future path for your money, with example calculations and handy reference charts, and aid in the unraveling of confusing interest rates.
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Investing
Excitement. Adventure. Surprises galore! Does this sound like a pulp fiction cliffhanger? No! It’s even better. It’s risk, the chance you take when you invest in a company. You’ll learn to take your chances and roll the dice, the smart way.
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Diversification
Learn why “diversification” is the nicest thing you can say to an investor, and why two funny sounding names, Beta and CAP-M, are music to investor’s ears.
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Bonds
The Standard Deviants show you why bonds are super investments. You’ll learn all about coupons, par values, maturities, discounts, yields, and premiums.
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Finance Companion CD-ROM
This companion CD-ROM is packed with robust supplementary materials: Lesson plans, viewing guides, teacher reference guides, students activities, worksheets and tests.
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Finance: The Basics
The Standard Deviants jump into the role of the financial manager, so be prepared to make some quick and crucial decisions. Pick your type of business, learn how to maximize stockholder wealth, choose your corporate structure and explore different kinds of markets.
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Assets and Liabilities
Learn about assets, liabilities, equities, and stock options. But wait! The Standard Deviants have more secrets to show. Learn about interest rates, risk, and the curve that shows it all: the yield curve. Then you’ll look into our financial crystal ball and find out the future value of your money.
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Leadership In Organizations
Through the views of four people with extensive leadership experience in business and the social services, this video explores current ideas about leadership within organizations today. Produced in conjunction with the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary.
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How to use Microsoft Excel 2007
How to … MS Excel is a practical and powerful introduction to the wide range of features found in Microsoft Excel 2007. The program is presented in seven distinct chapters – each covering distinct groups of tools available in Excel. Viewers have the opportunity to see how the basic data manipulation capabilities are used right through to the more advanced tools in Excel such as pivot tables and functions. How to … MS Excel is not only an invaluable aid in teaching basic and intermediate spreadsheeting skills to but it also provides a useful refresher on the available tools to the older or more experienced user. The program is also very useful when introducing the Office 2007 package.