ECO 208: Prof. Bushati's Classes: Films

How do businesses monitor their financial health and the profitability of their projects? Module one of this program presents balance sheet analysis as it is used by the world-class soccer team Ajax Amsterdam; module two introduces the concept of cash flow analysis with PricewaterhouseCoopers and their client Swisscom; and module three explains financial analysis of investments through the strategic partnership of the Tunisian Tourist Office and the Hotel Dar Cheralet.

Using easy-to-understand visuals and explanations, this program explores the branch of economics that focuses on the elasticity or sensitivity of consumers at the household level and of producers at the company level. Viewers are introduced to the central problem of scarcity and the allocation of limited resources in order to produce (and consume) goods and services. Main concepts include the market system, the law of supply and demand, price elasticity, market structures, market failures, and governmental responses to those failures. Other terms students will encounter include production capacity, price floor, price ceiling, perfect competition, monopoly and monopolistic competition, and oligopoly. Viewable/printable educational materials are available online.