Educational Finance Game

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge is required.

Objectives

◗ Analyze the company's financial situation and its strategic decisions.

◗ Contribute to discussions and decisions regarding business and finance matters.

◗ Learn the fundamentals of finance: cash flow, working capital requirements, loans, budgets...

Training program

◗ “Finance for All” is a business simulation game. Through play, participants discover and experiment with financial tools and concepts, including:

– Basic financial statements and their usefulness for management: income statement (P&L) and balance sheet
✔ PRACTICE | Start a business as a team. Experience the challenges of equity and debt financing

◗ Business and Financial Decisions

– How market conditions impact business decisions
✔ APPLY | As a team, respond to requests for proposals by setting prices that allow you to be competitive and profitable
– The importance of cash management
✔ APPLY | Make investment decisions that align with your strategy by anticipating cash flow constraints
– The difference between cash and profit
✔ UNDERSTAND | Prepare your financial statements and gain a practical understanding of accounting profit
– Fixed and variable costs, OPEX and CAPEX
✔ APPLY | Experience the impact of OPEX/CAPEX classification on your financial statements by making business decisions that help your team succeed
– Cost structure and capacity constraints
– Budgets and cash flow forecasts
– The impact of investment decisions on cash and earnings
– The need to monitor working capital requirements
– Management metrics (ROA, ROI) and performance indicators
✔ UNDERSTAND | Understand the value of performance ratios by applying them to the business decisions that help your team succeed (or fail)

Why choose this course?

The goal of this workshop is to make finance training fun. In a competitive setting, participants build their financial position on the game board and interpret the results of their decisions. The consequences of their strategic decisions are immediate. This helps participants understand how they contribute (and will contribute) to their company’s success.

This training course can serve as the first step in a “finance for non-financial professionals” training program, or it can be adapted into a fun, half-day team-building session to kick off a corporate seminar.

Teaching and assessment methods

Course details: “Finance for Everyone” is a hands-on business simulation that connects participants and engages them. The game was developed by Andromeda Simulations International in the U.S.

Practical details:

– Participants: A minimum of 12 and a maximum of 24 in-person (18 online). The instructors are certified.

During the session: The game board helps participants visualize the connections between the balance sheet and the income statement, the cash position, and so on. Participants are divided into teams and must make the best decisions to ensure their company remains sustainable and profitable. As the workshop progresses, trainees will become familiar with the fundamentals of finance while having fun. A real sense of friendly competition emerges!

A comprehensive booklet outlining the company's structure and business concepts is distributed at the beginning of the session so that participants can track their decisions and the resulting financial outcomes.

The frequent discussions within the teams and the facilitator’s input help reinforce the material and ensure that participants have acquired the knowledge.

Afterwards: the trainer is available at the end of the course to answer any questions relating to the training.

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