Accounting and finance clips Accounts, forecasting and breakeven

Streaming video - 2014

v. 1. What do a company's accounts tell you? Why are they important? This is a simple guide to the profit and loss account (income statement) and balance sheet. Together these documents form the basis for a company's annual report. The balance sheet provides a snapshot of a firm's financial health - but what do we mean by financial health? --v. 2. Working capital is getting tight at Blakeway and Maynard wants to know what's going wrong. One reason: too many customers taking too long to pay up. Should they slow down on paying their suppliers or push their debtors to pay up quicker? --v. 3. This clip explains the critical and tricky business of predicting future trends. Examples range from informal forecasting at a small b...usiness, to a marketing manager exploring future sales trends using time series analysis. --v. 4. What is breakeven analysis - and why do companies do it? Working out when a product or new store will break even is critical management information. But breakeven analysis isn't easy - and it has its limitations. more