Accessibility: Free with Steam account
Difficulty: Medium
This simulator starts the player off as a simple lemonade stand owner, however you make strategic business decisions to turn your business into an empire. Business functions you make decisions on include hiring employee candidates, upgrading economic resources, and purchase diverse investments. Students can also play against each other.
Course Name: Introduction to Business
Course Code: BBI10/BBI20
Unit: Finance
Expectations:
identify the factors that need to be assessed in order to make effective purchasing decisions (e.g., cost, quality, guarantees, service, money available, product information);
demonstrate financial-planning skills and produce a business or personal financial plan (e.g., monthly plan
assess the factors that will affect the value of investments over time (e.g., compound interest, rate of inflation, diversification of portfolio).
Business skills: Knowledge and skills necessary for success in business
employability skills
critical and creative thinking
• risk management
Financial literacy: The ability to read, analyse, manage, and communicate financial information for personal and professional purposes.
money management
financial decision making
investment
Students will apply critical thinking by following market trends to purchase potential investments and to sell and the most profitable time. Students will also need to use critical thinking to make hiring decisions that best match your business needs. Students will use their creativity to develop diverse portfolios and collaborate with their peers to make portfolio decisions. This will require strong business communication to understand different business terminology.
By: Quinn