Round 1 Capsim Homework Help (2024)

FAQs

How to do practice rounds in CapSim? ›

Go to Manage Industry | Schedule Rounds. This page will let you schedule Practice and Competition rounds. In the Time column, you can select the auto process option, which will advance the round automatically at the selected time.

You can improve your margins two ways. If your company is a differentiator, you can raise prices. The company differentiates by creating high demand with a good design, high awareness, and easy accessibility. You sacrifice some of the demand with a higher price.

The goal of Capsim is to help students relate to what happens in the real world. OneThe secret for winning lies in looking at your competition to see what they are doing, and then adapting and strategizing to do things better and make better decisions— just like in the actual competitive marketplace.

Traditional customers prioritize age (2 years), therefore updating this product every other year will be beneficial when managing product design and customer expectations. If you are targeting High End customers with your product, it is a good idea to update it every year.

Last year's sales can be a good starting point for this year's forecasts. For example, if the segment growth rate for the upcoming year is 9.2%, you can say “all things being equal, we can expect to sell 9.2% more units this year than last year.”

If your Contribution Margin is below 30%, the problem can be traced to some combination of Marketing (customers hate your products), Production (your labor and material costs are too high), or Pricing (you cut the price too much).

If we only produce to meet our demand, there is a fair chance we may stock out. Producing some extra will help us avoid stocking out. However, the more you produce the more you may have remaining as inventory. Keep in mind that any inventory on hand accumulates a cost.

How to increase roe in CapSim? ›

From an Owner's viewpoint, Management should use Leverage to produce higher ROE. The higher returns become EPS. The EPS can now be given to the stockholder as a dividend. This puts cash into the Owner's pocket while increasing the value of the stock.

At a leverage of 2.0, for every dollar of equity, there is a dollar of debt. Management and bankers will be happy, although stockholders might pressure for more debt. At a leverage of 3.0, for every dollar of equity, there are two dollars of debt. If the investments are good, stockholders will be delighted.

The ideal spot is that point in the heart of the segment where, all other things being equal, demand is highest. We call the orange boundary areas in Figure 3.1 “the rough cut area.” The green areas represent “the fine cut area.” The black dots are the ideal spots.

We sought to identify success factors in the Capstone simulation. We define success as the achievement of high scores in the (1) customer, (2) financial, (3) internal business process (IBP), and (4) learning and growth dimensions included in CapstoneVs balanced scorecard (BSC).

Many golfers use practice rounds as a predictor of their scores for the tournament. To be more specific, a good practice round is more about your strategy and game plan for the tournament, than how well you perform in the practice round.

On the Dashboard, under the Task List, a link will display that allows participants to proceed to the next round (at least one set of decisions must be uploaded before this link will display). Once they advance, participants immediately can begin work on their next round.

Log into the Capstone Spreadsheet and click the Decisions menu. Select Production. Use this area to enter for each product: A Production Schedule.

Investments in Recruiting and Training raise your Productivity Index, which in turn lowers your per unit labor costs. Scheduling overtime reduces any gains to the Productivity Index. The Productivity Index cannot go below 100%.