General Capsim Knowledge
Name of the document you look at to see your industry's results from the previous year
What is the Capstone Courier Report?
What are the three decisions you make in the R&D page?
What are Performance, Size, and MTBF
What does the Promotion Budget increase?
What is Customer Awareness?
If a plant's capacity is 1200, what is the maximum number of units of this product we can produce in a year?
What is 2400 units
What is 10 years
What are Traditional, Low End, High End, Performance, and Size
What happen to the age of the product when you make an update on it on the R&D page?
What is cuts in half
What does the Sales Budget increase?
What is Customer Accessibility?
What happens to labor costs on the second shift?
What is they increase by 50%?
Contribution margin is...
What is how much each product contributes to total revenue after all variable costs are paid
What happens if a company runs out of cash during the year?
What is an emergency loan
What are the five main customer buying criteria that determine how products are evaluated in each market segment?
Price, Age, MTBF, Performance, and Size
What happens to the customer buying criteria's price ranges each year?
What is they drop by $0.50 per year
What cost does investing in automation affect?
What is labor cost (per unit)
What are the three ways of raising capital for your company?
What is borrowing short-term debt, long-term debt, and issuing stock
True or False: Changing only MTBF will not affect the age of a product.
What is True
What should you do if your accessibility and/or awareness reaches 100%?
When can a company use capacity increases or automation changes?
What is the following year after the investment is made
What is a safe range for your ending cash position to be at?
Company X sells a large variety of technology products. They are able to maintain a competitive advantage by offering the lowest prices in all the market segments. What is Company X's business strategy?
What is Broad Cost Leader
What date do all R&D projects begin?
When is January 1
What does a higher Awareness score mean?
What is more customers know your product exists
Name one reason why having too much leftover inventory is bad.
What is (1) Holding onto too much inventory costs money OR (2) Too much inventory leftover indicates that your forecasting and production were not accurate
What is the penalty fee percentage for taking an emergency loan?
What is 7.5%