The three modules of this program look at the process of creating a business plan from three different perspectives: the transformation of an idea into a marketable product, the determination of financial feasibility, and negotiation with potential investors. German airship manufacturer Cargolifter, the Swiss musical production Space Dream, and data broadcasting innovator The Fantastic Corporation serve as case studies.
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Based on the popular seminar series, this program covers the three common accounting statements:
Cutting-Edge Issues in Management Accounting
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Introduction to Management Accounting - Video/DVD
This first program explains what management accounting is and how it is used to make optimal business decisions. The second part of the program focuses on business ethics, with insights into how different conclusions might be drawn from the same information, depending on how it is presented. Three dramatic vignettes offer clear examples of specific ethical dilemmas and advise on how each should be handled in the interests of fairness and integrity. (28 minutes, color)
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Fixed and Variable Costs - Video/DVD
This program features case studies on cost analysis. Meyer-Mercer Inc. had its supplier and customer base drastically reduced during the recession, yet it was able to survive by accurately analyzing its fixed costs. The second part of the program focuses on the hospitality industry, where slim margins are the rule. We visit a hotel where managers use their intimate knowledge of fixed and variable costs as well as step-variables to maintain comfortable profit margins. (28 minutes, color)
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Project Analysis - Video/DVD
Northern Telecom has to decide which of their products they will continue to manufacture and which they will out-source. Details are given on how they conducted their study. A small manufacturer of houseware products has to discount prices in order to get shelf space in large chain stores. We see how they cope with a take-it-or-leave-it pricing situation. (28 minutes, color)
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Revenue and Production Constraints - Video/DVD
Cutler Forest Products receives most of its orders for one product in a relatively short period of time, which creates production bottlenecks. We see how they minimize production constraints while maximizing profits. A second case study shows how Wilfred Laurier University, despite cutbacks in government financial support, continues to operate successfully. One of the reasons is a decentralized budgeting process that allows management to actually expand service while operating under revenue constraints. (28 minutes, color)
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Process and Job Order Costing - Video/DVD
Much of College Tool and Die’s business is custom work. Using job order costing, the company isolates overhead costs and reduces them. The effectiveness of process costing techniques is explored in a Dupont Corporation case study that shows how the company controls costs while processing thousands of unique customer orders. (28 minutes, color)
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New Approaches to Costing - Video/DVD
In the first case study, a hospital employs a radical new approach to determining the cost of hospital care by tracing all costs back to individual patients. In a separate but related case study, a telecommunications company changes from a traditional approach of allocating overheads to a new system of activity-based costing. (28 minutes, color)
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Pricing Issues - Video/DVD
The difficult yet crucial task of pricing products is examined as a photocopy franchise develops a creative pricing strategy to remain competitive. A second case study shows how a stone supplier uses joint product costing to price dissimilar products originating from one stone block. (28 minutes, color)
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The Time Value of Money - Video/DVD
The El Sembrador Worker’s Co-op, a fledgling import-export business, secures a start-up loan by proving to investors that money spent wisely today will produce future revenues higher than the initial debt. In the second study, an apple orchard decides when to plant and sell based not only on farming knowledge, but also by weighing present expenses against predicted future revenues. (28 minutes, color)
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Capital Expenditure Analysis - Video/DVD
To assess the profitability of investing in new machinery, managers at a DuPont plant predict future cash flows, then discount them to their present value and establish a payback period. Another case study examines how a company assesses the risk involved in a quarter-million-dollar investment. (28 minutes, color)
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Strategic Planning - Video/DVD
The success of Atlas Van Lines is shown to be the result of a long-term strategic planning process that allows for organization-wide input and a strategy to increase market share through marketing and customer service. A second case study shows how a museum survives funding cuts. It develops a wide consultative process in which its employees provide the requisite information and buy into the new strategic plan. (28 minutes, color)
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Managing Uncertainty - Video/DVD
Situations involving flexible budgetary strategies are explored in a case study of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. A second study focuses on what happens when separate projects under way at the burgeoning Equine Research Centre require different cost and revenue information for decision making. (28 minutes, color)
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Cutting-Edge Issues in Management Accounting - Video/DVD
For nonprofit organizations, evaluating outputs is difficult because they do not produce revenue and dollar values that can be readily determined. In the first case study, we see how one organization matches costs with nonmonetary measures of output. The second case study focuses on total quality control. In it, a Xerox plant allows its employees at all levels to understand and contribute to the financial success of the operation. (28 minutes, color)
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The Wharton Management Development Series - Video/DVD
No one knows business like The Wharton School, one of the top Business Schools in the world. In this timeless four-part executive education series, Wharton faculty members and senior executives from companies both large and small share their knowledge of how to achieve total competitive advantage. On-screen topic outlines and diagrams enhance this potent resource. 4-part series, 46-64 minutes each.
The Series Includes:
Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager
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Achieving Competitive Advantage: Managing for Organizational Effectiveness - Video/DVD
"Houston, we have a problem." When Mission Control received a distress call from Apollo 13, the ground team had to entirely rethink its management structure—immediately—in order to save the astronauts’ lives. In this program, Michael Useem, a professor of management and sociology at Wharton and an expert on organizational design, provides key insights into the determinants of organizational success. Case studies including NASA, Sport Obermeyer, and Southwest Airlines focus on the make-or-break issues of decision-making, organizational design, alignment of incentives, and organizational leadership. (53 minutes, color)
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Creating Customer Value: The Essentials of Marketing - Video/DVD
How does a company successfully challenge an industry leader for market share, turn around a negative public perception, or secure a niche in a crowded and competitive marketplace? In this program, Barbara Kahn, a professor of marketing at Wharton and an authority on consumer behavior, analyzes the marketing plans of Visa International, the Bank of Boston, and RYKÄ with their senior executives while identifying the principles behind building a marketing plan and developing an effective marketing strategy. Market segmentation, the product lifecycle, the Four P’s, and other pertinent topics are addressed. (46 minutes, color)
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Achieving Competitive Advantage: Neutralizing Competition - Video/DVD
Globalization, shorter production cycles, and increasingly demanding shareholders mean that companies must be nimble if they are to get ahead. In this program, Harbir Singh, a Wharton management professor and an expert on strategic alliances and on mergers and acquisitions, describes core concepts in building a coherent strategy of competitive advantage—and examines what it takes to hold on to it in a business environment that is less predictable and more competitive than ever. In addition, senior executives from Ford, Fuji-Xerox, and other companies discuss how they have adjusted to the demands of today’s business world. (53 minutes, color)
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Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager - Video/DVD
Owner’s equity, net present value, debt-to-equity ratios, valuation—what does it all mean? In this program, Wharton faculty members Dr. Peter Knutson, an authority on the development of global accounting standards, and Zehavit Joseph, a specialist in mergers and acquisitions and in strategic financial management, present the essentials of finance and accounting while explaining how they apply to both large and small companies. An ideal bridge for the non-financial manager, this video promotes a better rapport with financial professionals, a deeper understanding of financial statements, and enhanced project management skills. (64 minutes, color)
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