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Practise the finance decisions textbooks only describe
Cash is running short in week nine, and a big payment is due in euros. Build the forecast, weigh the options and send your recommendation to the CFO, inside a company where the numbers are connected.
- Runs in
- A web browser, 3D included
- One exercise
- 20 to 55 minutes
- Practice levels
- Six, from worked example to exam
- Working tools
- 2 used in these exercises
A real exercise
The company's cash forecast dips below what the bank allows in one week of the next thirteen. You can delay an investment, chase customer payments, stretch a supplier or draw on the credit line. Each one has a cost and a side effect. You pick the set that works and explain it to the CFO.
How it works
Every exercise follows the same rhythm as the real job: a problem arrives, you investigate, you act, and the simulated company responds.
- 01
A finance problem lands
A cash gap, a currency risk or a loan limit that is about to be broken.
- 02
You read the situation
Open the forecast, the contracts and the bank terms. Ask sales, purchasing and the CFO.
- 03
You choose and commit
Pull levers, hedge exposures and publish the forecast. Once it goes to the CFO, it is locked.
- 04
You see the result
Was cash enough every week? Did the hedge protect the margin? The debrief shows the reasoning behind each choice.
What you practise
Concrete tasks taken from the exercises on this page. Each one is done with real data, under real constraints, inside the same simulated company.
- T01
Build a 13-week cash forecast
Find the week where cash runs short, not just the quarterly total.
- T02
Price every option
Compare delaying spending, collecting faster, stretching suppliers and borrowing.
- T03
Stay within loan conditions
Keep the ratios the bank requires, or explain the cost of breaking them.
- T04
Hedge a currency payment
Decide how much of a foreign-currency bill to protect, and how.
- T05
Write the recommendation
Turn the analysis into a short, defensible note for the CFO.
What your organisation gets
Evidence, not attendance.
- 01
Finance that feels real
Students and new analysts work through a live company's cash, not a table at the end of a chapter.
- 02
Judgement, not just formulas
There is more than one good answer, and the reasoning is assessed as well as the result.
- 03
Easy to grade fairly
Every learner faces the same numbers, and every decision is recorded.
The tools you work with
Working tools, not screenshots. They read the same live data as the rest of the simulated company, and what you change in one shows up in the others.
- 01
13-week cash forecast
Where cash dips below the minimum, and what the lender's covenant test will say.
- 02
Currency desk
Quotes, existing hedges, and what a foreign-currency payable costs under each rate.
Six levels, one exercise
Teachers and trainers choose how much help each person gets. The exercise stays the same; only the guidance and the grading change.
- L1
Watch it done
The exercise solved step by step, with what each step changed.
- Hints
- Read only
- Graded
- No
- L2
Step by step
The next move is pointed out, every hint is open, goals update as you work.
- Hints
- All hints
- Graded
- Yes
- L3
With hints
Every hint is open, but finding the next step is up to you.
- Hints
- All hints
- Graded
- Yes
- L4
On your own
Hints stop short of the worked answer. Goals still update as you go.
- Hints
- Some hints
- Graded
- Yes
- L5
Exam
No hints and no AI helper. Results appear only after you submit.
- Hints
- None
- Graded
- Yes
- L6
Free play
An open what-if sandbox. Try anything; nothing counts towards a grade.
- Hints
- All hints
- Graded
- No
What every attempt leaves behind
Judge the work, not a quiz score. Every attempt is recorded as it happens, so you can see how someone worked, not only where they ended up.
Every action, in order
What was checked, who was asked, what was changed and when. Nothing is overwritten.
Scores by skill
Each exercise scores the skills it was built to test, from what was actually done.
Weak habits, flagged
Poor patterns in how the work was done are flagged, not only wrong final answers.
A replay of the attempt
Step through the session as it happened, with typed personal details masked.
- A finance problem lands
- You read the situation
- You choose and commit
- You see the result
What finance level is this for?
Upper-year undergraduate finance and economics students, graduate students, and new analysts in treasury or FP&A teams.
Do learners need Excel?
No. The forecasting and hedging tools are built in, so the time goes into decisions instead of spreadsheet set-up.
Is it connected to the other exercises?
Yes. The finance exercises take place in the same simulated manufacturer as the planning and legal ones, so a late supplier there is a cash problem here.
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See it with your own people
Start with a pilot: one course or one team. We help you choose the exercises and measure the results.