Watch this with a 10-15 minute audiotrack at http://vimeo.com/novusprogram/lesson13 This lesson introduces two important topics in business finance: the balance sheet and financial ratios. The balance sheet shows all of the assets, liabilities, and equity of a company at a point in time. Using the information on the balance sheet and the income statement, we can calculate several financial ratios that help us understand how a business is performing. The Novus project is a combination of video tutorials designed to be used in conjunction with a free business simulation software program. The Novus Business and IT Program contains 36 business and IT training videos, covering basic finance, accounting, marketing, economics, business strategy, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Users will have an opportunity to apply the lessons in the Novus Business Simulator. Over six rounds, the user or teams will have to make decisions on capital purchases, financing, production, financing, and human resources for a microbrewery. This channel has arranged the 36 video lessons into the order in which they are meant to be used with the simulator. To watch this slideshow as a video, please go to our Vimeo page at: https://vimeo.com/novusprogram. To download our free business simulation software, please go to our SourceForge page at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/novus/.