The Turnaround Game is created by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to help you understand what it means to run a record company and why downloading MP3’s for free isn’t doing any good to the company’s business statistics.
Big Noizz Music is ailing: share prices are down, tension is high and all the hits have but dried up. You’re the superstar consultant Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who’s job it is to turn this company around. To do so, you’ll help the CEO make decisions on all facets of the business from distribution to talent to technology. It’s going to take all your CPA skills including strategic and critical thinking, decision making, risk analysis, measurement and vision to push Big Noizz back to the top. The business problems that Big Noizz is facing include:
Level 1: It’s up to you to make a cash raising recommendation without ticking off the stockholders or the fans. This means taking a good look at Big Noizz’s distribution, assets, audience, and potential.
Level 2: Big Noizz needs you to help them reinvest their money and leverage their expertise with a plan that can generate more profits. What can you and they do with a roster of aging stars with dwindling popularity and some cash flow?
Level 3: Big Noizz is counting on you to help them secure their future. Your challenge is to tilt the fragile balance between art, commerce and technology in their favor. The reward for your strong leadership will be generous.
The game is quite monotone, but then again, it’s accounting-oriented. What did you expect? The graphics are pretty good though, and the characters are very realistic. Feels like pre-recorded video material when you meet them and that’s pretty impressive.
Go Play the game (register for free) – It asks for an area code, and it doesn’t accept European codes so I filled in ‘90210′ and that seemed to work fine. Thank you, television. :)
"Start Here. Go Places." also has a few other games to get you more in touch with business and accounting:
* BizzFun : Choose your industry — entertainment, sports or fashion — then try to maneuver your way to the top of your company and the top of our scoreboard. You can even set up a league and compete with your friends to see who comes out on top.
* Money Means Business : Do you dream of a challenging career in the corporate world — see yourself working with the top executives, thriving on deadlines, making important decisions, launching new products?
If this sounds exciting, you’ve come to the right place!
* Catch Me If You Can : Features three exciting cases to unravel. Your job? Look for clues, follow the money trail and catch the bad guys. Don’t wait – log on and get sleuthing. When it comes to fighting crime, every second counts.
via [TechDirt]
