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Performance Analysis & Simulations PAS Manual2018Welcome to the ‘world’ of the Capstone Business Simulation. Your first resource should be The Capsim Guide, which has an extensive discussion of Capstone and is essential reading prior to this Manual. Also, the Capsim web site has numerous resources available, including:An FAQ areaVideo demonstrationsThe Introductory LessonThe Rehearsal areaPlus, you should also review any material and activities provided to you in the RMIT Canvas web site for this course this semester.This Performance Analysis & Simulations Manual needs to be used in conjunction with the materials outlined above. The material and activities in this Manual are designed to help you develop an understanding of the business concepts and decision-making skills covered in this course and practiced and applied in the Capstone simulation.ContentsCAPSIM HELP 4Accessing Capsim and the Capstone Business simulation 4Joining or Forming a Capstone Company 5Capsim Rehearsal Tutorial 5CLASS 1 8CLASS 2 14CLASS 3 21CLASS 4 23REFERENCE ITEMS 24Assets/Employee: BSC recap metric 25Asset Turnover (ATO) ratio 25Balanced ScoreCard: overview 26Balanced ScoreCard scoring system: Capstone 28Bonds: Courier 29Business Risk 31Capstone Courier: background 32Cash Flow Statement: indirect method (Courier) 36Contribution Margin: Courier and BSC metric 38Cumulative Profits: Courier and Balanced ScoreCard metric 39Customer Accessibility: Courier and BSC metric 40Customer Awareness: Courier and BSC metric 40Customer Buying Criteria: Courier and BSC metric 41Customer Survey Score: Courier 42Current Ratio 43Days of Working Capital: BSC metric 44Debt Funding 45Dividends 46Du Pont Ratio analysis 47EBIT (Earnings Before Interest and Tax): Courier metric 47Emergency Loans: Courier and BSC recap metric 48Employee Productivity: BSC recap metric 49Employee Turn-over Rate: BSC metric 49EPS (Earnings Per Share): Courier metric 50Forecasting Sales 51Forecasting Sales: segment growth method 52Forecasting Sales: December Customer Survey Score method 53Forecasting Sales: Best Case – Worst Case method 54Free Cash Flow 55Human Resources 56
Inventory 56Inventory Carrying Costs: BSC metric 58Leverage: Courier and BSC metric 58Market Capitalization: BSC recap metric 61Marketing decision screen: Benchmark Prediction and Your Forecast 62Operating Profit: BSC recap metric 63Plant Utilization: Courier and BSC metric 63Product Count: BSC metric 65Product sales levels 66Production decision screen 67Production capacity: not getting what was ordered 68Profits: Courier and BSC metric 69Profits/Employee: BSC recap metric 70Proforma Reports 70Retained Earnings: Courier 71Return on Assets (RoA): Courier metric 72Return on Equity (RoE): Courier metric 72Return on Sales (RoS): Courier metric 73Sales/Employee: BSC recap metric 74Stock Price: Courier metric and BSC metric 76Stock-Out Costs: BSC metric 77TQM Material Reduction: BSC metric 79TQM Admin Cost Reduction: BSC metric 80TQM Demand Increase: BSC metric 81TQM Labour Cost Decrease: BSC metric 82Working Capital 83CAPSIM HELPAccessing Capsim and the Capstone Business simulationIt is very important that you check that you have access to Capsim and Capstone as early as possible in this semester. There are many resources at and tasks and activities for you to do at this web site. It will be an important part of your learning this semester.Access instructions were given in the Class 1 lesson and can be found in its lecture materials. The steps are: Log on to www.capsim.comUse your student number for your Capsim User NameUse just the numbers in your RMIT student number.Do NOT use any letters, even if they are in your student ID.For your Capsim Password. Use the word: capstoneDo NOT use your RMIT password for your Capsim password. EXAMPLE: if your student number was s123456Then your Capsim User Name is: 123456And your Capsim Password is: capstone4 Then select the ‘Capstone’ option.