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Introducing managers to accounting and showing them what the PC can do for them and their organisation.
Metadata describing this Open University video programme
Module code and title: B655, Accounting for managers
Item code: B655; VCR1; 1995
First transmission date: 1994-
Published: 1995
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Duration: 02:27:54
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Producer: Roger Penfound
Contributors: Don Cooper; Alan Parkinson
Publisher: BBC Open University
Keyword(s): Accounting systems; Financial statements; Off-shore banking; Ratio analysis; Standard costing
Footage description: Footage - Court room sketches (0'34"-1'10") - Marks and Spencer. Hill Samuel. Local Theatre. Netherlands. Dublin (2'08"-2'55") - Don Cooper explaining the course units. Course member explaining computer activities. PC starter pack explained. Course editor explaining use of jargon. Course manager explaining examination (3'40"-10'13") - Marks and Spencer, Chester. Michael House, Baker Street, London. Accounts department. Stock control. Payment section. Storage. Store expenses. Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) (11'42"-28'07") - Newport Pagnell. Fred the Tread. Financial statements. Mechanic working on car. Centralised computer controlled stock control (28'35"-33'50") - Dacorum Borough Council. Borough income. Sports hall. Town Hall. New flats. Landscapers. Graveyard (34'47"-36'48") - Domino Printing Sciences. Printing. Finance director explaining finances. Dutch subsidiary in Houten (37'13"-42'31") - Managers talking about the process of budgeting (43'05"-44'29"). Graphic sequence of the first years trading of a fictitious business. Accounting equation. Balance sheet. Stock purchasing. Sales. Trading and profit and loss account (45'18"-61'32") - Cost ascertainment of producing a table (63'11"-74'03") - Graphic sequence using graphs to assess profit or loss. Breakeven graph (75'11"-80'35") - Pyramid graphic showing organisational structure. Wyllyotts Centre, Potters Bar. HMS Pinafore (81'22"-95'14") - Eurovision Song Contest. The Point, Dublin. RTE staging 1994 Eurovison Song Contest (95'15"-111'54") - Graphics sequence of the fictitious business after 3 years. Graphic of accounting ratios (113'03"-125'49") - PC's used to improve financial control. The Crosscare Project. Computerisation of pay roll. Accounting. Spreadsheets (127'05"-132'57") - Wyllyott Centre. PC system. Budgets. Eurovision Song Contest (133'23"-140'11") - Jersey. Off shore banking. Hill Samuel. Unit Trusts (140'30"-149'10").
Master spool number: DOU9777
Production number: FOUB122J
Videofinder number: 5629
Available to public: no