The Balance Sheet Barrier

Produced

• 1993

Key Features

30 minute VHS or DVD video
CD-ROM version also available

Languages available: English, Spanish and French

The aim of this program:
To enable managers to appreciate how key financial statements are calculated and what they mean.

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About the program:
The light-hearted approach of this world-famous video helps take the fear out of financial documents and complex concepts, and although accounts might never become a manager's favourite topic it does at least make them understandable.

Using the device of contrasting the apparent worldliness of a well-educated company director and the business acumen of the streetwise owner of a small factory, we're shown how the whole process of business finance works.

Because the success or failure of her manufacturing company is down to her, she knows the importance of understanding how money goes round the business and how to track and measure it - and she's happy to explain it in everyday language.

Having been previously too embarrassed to admit his lack of knowledge, her grateful pupil learns the difference between key documents and the significance of the balance sheet, profit and loss accounts and cash-flow forecasts.

The benefits of using this program for training:
-Assumes no prior knowledge of finance
-Well-presented and structured video that ensures all managers understand how key financial statements are calculated and what they mean
-Imaginative use of graphics to emphasise key points
-Financial jargon is avoided in favour of everyday language

Style:
Humorous drama

Related training issues:
Project management
Key account management

Information:
Features Dawn French and John Cleese; release date 1993.

The DVD program includes:
DVD(30 mins)
Showreel tape
Meeting break DVD
Course leader's guide
Delegate worksheets on disk
Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disk
Self-study workbook on disk

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