The Balance sheet barrier

This video offers an explanation and the importance and meaning of balance sheets, and strips away the mystery surrounding business finance and accounting.

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"Business finance for non-specialists"

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"This video offers an explanation and the importance and meaning of balance sheets, and strips away the mystery surrounding business finance and accounting."
"This video offers an explanation and the importance and meaning of balance sheets, and strips away the mystery surrounding business finance and accounting."@en
"The video features John Cleese as Julian Carruthers, a sophisticated manager in a large corporation. His counterpart is Rita Scroggs, played by Dawn French, who is crude and uneducated. Rita runs a successful spoon manufacturing business. Apart from their social and business backgrounds, there is one other factor which differentiates them; he doesn't understand finance and she does."@en
"Use The Balance Sheet Barrier for training and key financial documents will lose Their terror. It's an excellent lesson for every manager at any level. It's also invaluable for training accounting staff and others who need to understand The practical value of complex-sounding concepts. In this vital program, John Cleese stars as Julian Caruthers, a high level executive who's terrified of numbers!"@en
"Views the balance sheet as the key to explaining how a business works."
"Explains key concepts in business finance: share capital, loan capital, reserves, fixed assets, working capital, profit, overheads and cash flow."
"Summary: Ron Scroggs explains to Julian Carruthers the essentials of business management and unveils the mysteries of the two crucial documents which reveal past, present and future finances: the profit and loss account, the balance sheet and the cash flow forecast."@en
"A relatively uneducated manager of a small business explains the workings of his business to a sophisticated manager who doesn't understand finance. Using animated cartoons and symbols of his spoon factory he explains concepts such as share capital, cash flow and profit, and the relationship between speed of capital turnaround and profitability."@en
"Featuring Dawn French and John Cleese, the DVD explains business finance, accounts, working capital, profit and loss accounts, reserves, balance sheets and cash flow forecasts, with accompanying course leader's guide."