Charles J. Givens Money Guide
A self-made millionaire, Charles J Givens guides you through tips for securing
your present and future wealth. Some topics covered are home mortgaging,
auto loans, different forms of credit and life insurance. The main menu
includes Wealth Management, Ask Charles and 10 Tips to Wealth.
Start Your Own Business
Learn how to start your own business with this interactive program from
INC. Magazine. You can listen to a mentor panel of professionals from
a variety of backgrounds as they give you tips and recount their successes.
Menu topics range from reality therapy, to testing your idea and finding
the money to finance your idea. Over 35 sub-directories help you fine
tune your business ideas even more.
Accounting for Managers
Key Concepts: Service Industry Part I: You will learn to use basic accounting
vocabulary. You will also be able to determine the cost of goods sold,
operating expenses on an income statement, and inventory on a balance
sheet. Part II: You will learn to classify costs by their behavior; distinguish
between absorption costing and direct costing; and use the Appropriate
Costing method to determine a company’s break-even point.
Key Concepts: Manufacturing
This two-part set is on methods of analyzing costs. Part I: You will see
how accountants record costs and how they use cost information. You will
also learn the criteria used to determine which costs appear on the Income
Statement and which appear on the balance sheet. Other concepts covered
are expenditures and expenses, matching principle, period and product
costs, cost flows, inventory accounts, cost of goods sold and operating
expenses. Part II: You will be able to restructure cost data to facilitate
profit planning.
Short-Term Profit Planning: An Introduction
In this introduction to Cost Volume Profit Analysis, you will learn to
calculate unit and dollar sales volume necessary to produce a specified
amount of profit; to determine how changes in variable and fixed costs
and unit volume affect profit; to construct a break-even chart and to
identify the assumptions under which CVP Analysis is valid.
Short-Term Profit Planning: Working with Multiple
Products
In this module, you will learn to calculate unit and dollar sales mix
percentages for a group of products and find the total unit and dollar
sales needed to make a projected profit from a group of products. Learn
to estimate and maintain profitability when unit sales mix, dollar sales
mix, fixed costs, variable costs and/or the selling price of any product
in a sales line changes.
Basic Accounting
Basic Accounting serves as an introductory accounting tutorial. This tutorial
is meant for beginners who wish to understand financial statements and
how they are prepared. There are six modules that will give you the basic
knowledge of financial accounting. The modules include the accounting
cycle, chart of accounts, general ledger, source documents, the business
cycle and financial statements. Some key topics included are amortization/depreciation,
adjusting entries, sales returns & allowances/sales discounts, worksheets
and payments.
Fundamental Accounting Principles
Fundamental Accounting Principles is accessible to students using Fundamental
Accounting Principles, 8th edition (Canadian) by Larson, Nelson, Zin and
Carroll. This tutorial package reviews the 27 chapters of the text by
multiple-choice, true-false, glossary and journal entry questions. Correct
answers, their justification and the page reference in the text are provided.
An excellent review tool.
Introductory Accounting
Test your knowledge of accounting principles and practices with ten in-depth
accounting modules. Students tell us that Introductory Accounting is excellent
preparation for tests; it will identify the most important areas you need
to review. Topics include the common “end of period” accounting routines,
the complete accounting cycle, internal control procedures, receivables
and payables, inventory valuation, assets and depreciation, partnerships
and corporations, bonds, accounts receivable, partnership accounting,
capital stock and dividends.
Macroeconomics
This program, which complements the McGraw Hill Economics text, makes
extensive use of graphics and the animation capabilities of the computer.
Each lesson has been developed to be consistent with the way macroeconomics
is taught in the classroom; this great tool highlights fiscal and monetary
policy, in addition to a Macro Wiz.
Principles, Problems & Policies
This package contains 20 tutorials that will take you through demand and
supply, costs of production, and reading and constructing graphs. The
program offers tests to check what you have learned. Key terms, graphs
and simulations will assist in learning.
The Deficit Buster
The Deficit Buster provides economics students with an introduction to
the field of macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy-making in Canada.
By involving you in an entertaining policy-making game, you become familiar
with a number of macroeconomic concepts and their values: macroeconomic
theory, statistical information on macroeconomic performance of the economy,
and examination of the impact of macroeconomic policies on the economy.
Forecasting
Introduction to Forecasting
This module aids in making decisions about the direction of your company
through market trends and planning. Using both qualitative and quantitative
methods, the program makes use of time series components and choosing
a time series.
Projecting Long-Term Trends
This module focuses on how to develop a mathematical model to describe
the trend of a time series and how to apply it to forecasting future time
periods. You will learn to use historical data in business forecasting,
be able to differentiate between linear and nonlinear trends, to find
the equation of a line of a time series and to calculate forecasts for
a trend line.
Short-Term Profit Planning
This module focuses on how to calculate forecasts using moving averages,
weighted moving averages and how to select the most accurate moving average
forecast. You also become familiar with the concepts of time series, trends,
cyclical, seasonal and irregular components, and the mean squared error
method of forecasting accuracy.
Project Management
Delegation
The Delegation module shows you how to delegate and accomplish goals more
effectively, while expanding your limits and time devoted to managing
and at the same time, reducing stress and your workload.
Getting Started with Project Management
This module teaches the fundamentals of project management through the
use of examples and questions. Getting the Slack out of Project Plans
This module teaches you how to determine the time you have to work on
a project; identify the events that will delay a project and those that
will provide catch-up opportunities and finally, replan a project with
an impossible deadline.
How to Meet Project Deadlines
This module teaches how to manage consistent and practical time estimates
for project completion. Determine when key projects should start. Determine
which parts of the project require monitoring.
Performance Feedback
The Performance Feedback module uses five steps to help you learn how
to use performance feedback to maintain and increase positive job performance.
Strategic Planning
Goal Setting
The Goal Setting module gives you five necessary guidelines to identify
examples of acceptable goal statements. The diagnostic portion determines
how well you are able to construct and evaluate effective goal statements.
Improving Employee Performance 1 & 2
The Improving Employee Performance modules outline the four steps in the
performance-improving process. They help develop employee goals, while
preparing for and conducting review, through action planning right up
to the follow-through stages.
Problem Solving
The Problem Solving module outlines the six steps to the problem-solving
process. It helps you to effectively problem solve by teaching you to
separate the problem from the cause.
The Strategic Planning Process
This module outlines the four steps of the strategic planning process:
identification of organization’s objectives, gathering information, evaluating
and creating new strategic plans.
What is Strategic Planning?
This module defines strategic planning and presents a simulation in which
you can plan an organization’s future success or failure, without risking
any capital or employees.
