Video Cases

These questions are based on videos from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that accompany the textbook. In addition to whatever in-class use your instructor may have given them, they're available on this website for online viewing. If directed to do so by your instructor, you can answer the questions online and email the results.

These videos are intended only for students using the 5th Canadian Edition of Canadian Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management. To view the video, you'll require a password. Refer to page 174 in your textbook and use the first word appearing in the main text column as both 'username' and 'password.' Use of the word is case-sensitive.

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“Merger Madness” CBC Venture, #723 – time 5:15

Conventional business wisdom says that mergers are good for business and good for shareholders. Year by year over the past decade companies have been doing bigger deals, and more of them. But the reality is that well over half of those deals have not created value.

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1		What can a prospective purchaser of a small business learn from this example?
2		What resources might assist to ensure that the price paid for a business is not too high?