Games
Play the money weeks
Some weeks of the enterprise workbooks are a thing you can run, not only read: a cost that spreads thinner the more you make, a price that sells fewer, a loss that turns into a profit one sale at a time. Those weeks have a game here, at the address printed on the page.
Each game runs the week’s own numbers. Nothing is stored, nothing is collected, and there is nothing to sign up for.
Week 7
Where the Money Goes
Trace one day of bracelets: what came in, what went out, what stayed. Then sort what counts as a cost.
Week 8
Cost and Price
Fill the gaps, price a cookie yourself, and see what 100 of them do at a price that is too low.
Week 9
Profit: What Is Left
Three days at one stand, two stands with the same revenue, and a loss written with a minus sign.
Week 19
What It Costs to Make One
Your materials list: pack price, how many in a pack, used per item, cost per item, and the total for one.
Week 20
Choosing Your Price
Test your price: is it above your cost, is it easy to hand over, and what does a day at it keep?
Week 21
Profit on One Sale
Your price and cost, scaled up to 5, 10, 25 and 50 sales, and how many sales reach a goal.
Week 22
How Many Can You Make?
Minutes per item, hours a week, weeks to go: your capacity, against the money limit.
Week 32
Count It Up
Your tally, a row per price, added up to total revenue.
Week 33
Did You Make a Profit?
Every cost, the profit, the money-box check the other way, and profit per hour.
Week 2
Two Kinds of Cost
Make 10, 25 or 50 cups, or any number, and watch what the sign does to the cost of one.
Week 4
Margin
Fill the table for the four products, then rank them two ways and see the rankings disagree.
Week 5
Break Even
Sell one at a time and watch the loss shrink to zero. Then change the fixed costs or the margin.
Week 6
The Price Ladder
Pick a rung, see the money in and the profit, and find the two prices that peak.
Week 9
Four Products, One Table
Fill the table, answer the four questions, and see why they do not all point at the same product.
Week 22
Your Break-Even, In Units
Type your own fixed costs and margins and get your break-even, rounded up.
Week 23
The Forecast
Enter your forecast for two products and see the money in and the total margin.
Week 24
The Business Plan
Your fixed costs, margin and forecast: the profit if it comes true, and at half of it.
Week 33
Change One Thing
Drop a price and sell more. Does the total margin go up or down?
Week 35
Did It Work?
Compare two sessions by sales per person, not by sales.
Week 3
Out of a Hundred
Margin in dollars and as a percent for rows b to e, find the two that match, and price a 40 percent margin.
Week 4
Markup Is Not Margin
The same dollar against the cost and against the price, and a supplier who works on 25 percent of what?
Week 10
Revenue Is a Formula
R = p x q for rows b to e, then change p and q and watch the straight line tilt and slide.
Week 11
Change the Price, Change the Line
Pick a price, see how many sell, and find where revenue peaks and where profit does.
Week 12
The Market Detective
Four drink stalls and six questions: unit price, margin, revenue, a loss with its sign, a ratio, a range.
Week 20
Pricing Against Somebody Else
Match, under or over their $4.00 with your own cost, then play the price war one move at a time.
Week 21
What a Discount Really Costs
Four discounts, the margin each leaves, the extra sales each needs, and the one that leaves nothing.
Week 22
Bundles
Each in the bundle and the margin on the deal for bundles b to d, then design one of your own.
Week 23
The Share You Are Going For
Market size, who might buy, an even share, and the number you are aiming at, for your own market.
Week 31
Your Share of the Market
Four teams, one total: fraction, simplest form and percent for each, adding to 100.
Week 35
Did the Move Work?
Two rounds of sales, yours and the whole market: growth, share, and whether you can tell.