Libraries Learning Commons: Accounting and Finance Sources: Streaming Videos

Featured Videos/DVDs

Accounting Basics and Definitions: Accounting Fundamentals (Films on Demand)
Publication Date: 2014
What do GAAP and OCBOA mean? What are revenues, expenses, assets, and liabilities? What are the stages of the accounting cycle? This video answers those questions and many others as it introduces viewers to the process of accounting as illustrated by a cupcake shop and a medical clinic. Sections include: Importance of Accurate Accounting, Basic Accounting Terms, Financial Reporting, Income Statements, Balance Sheets: Assets, Balance Sheets: Liabilities and Owner Equity, and Statements of Cash Flows.
On the money: the ABC's of accounting / a Cambridge Educational Production.
Call Number: HF5635 .O5 2002 (Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus)
Publication Date: 2002
My Financial Career (National Film Board of Canada)
Publication Date: 1962
An animated film based on Stephen Leacock's witty account of a young man's first brush with banking. When he tries to make his deposit, he is so intimidated by the institution that nothing he says comes out right.

Here is a sample of the videos you can access online from Films on Demand (you will need to use your blackboard/network ID to access the full version):

Video Databases

Criterion on Demand This link opens in a new window
Criterion on Demand, the leading provider of feature films for institutional use in Canada. Access to thousands of feature films in a wide range of genres, including new releases, classics, documentaries, foreign and animated films are available for classroom use. Criterion represents some of the biggest producers of feature films such as: 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Miramax, Lionsgate and Dreamworks.
Curio This link opens in a new window
Curio is a selection of the very best CBC and Radio-Canada content
Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand contains over 6,000 streaming videos with over 64,000 segments provided by the Films Media Group. And those numbers increase monthly as new titles are added. Terms of Use
National Film Board of Canada (NFB) This link opens in a new window
NFB.ca, the National Film Board of Canada’s award-winning online Screening Room, featuring over 2,000 films, excerpts, trailers and interactive works. The collection includes documentaries, animations, experimental films and fiction. We showcase films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians—stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more. Terms of Use