The Holidays
Santa uses this magical practice to predict how much he’ll need for next year’s toy production.
What is financial forecasting?
What city does the Burning Shores take place?
What is Los Angeles?
Amsterdam will be celebrating its … birthday next year
What is 750?
SAP is an acronym for
What is Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung or System Analysis Program Development?
Legend says this financial planning tool, when used correctly, can predict the future with 100% accuracy.
What is the Crystal Ball of Forecasting?
Santa makes sure to calculate this tax on toys delivered across EU borders, even when they’re gifts.
What is VAT (Value-Added Tax)?
This main character thought to be dead in Zero Dawn was found alive in Forbidden West
Who is Ted Faro?
Amsterdam has the highest density of … in the world. No this is not a question on bicycles
What is museums?
There are over 90 museums in Amsterdam
This powerful Excel feature allows users to reorganize and summarize large datasets with rows, columns, and filters.
What is a Pivot Table?
This dream scenario is when revenue magically aligns with projections, expenses come in under budget, and everyone gets a bonus.
What is a financial unicorn?
Also accepted: financial jackpot, utopia, paradise
Santa reviews this schedule to calculate how much value his sleigh has lost over the years.
What is the depreciation schedule
This huge AAA game released within a week of HFW
What is Elden Ring?
The amount of budget for the city of Amsterdam in 2024
What is 7.1 billion?
The Big Five U.S. accounting firms became the Big Four after the 2002 dissolution of this company
What is Arthur Andersen?
This fabled land is where every expense is perfectly categorized, and no one ever says, ‘I thought someone else was tracking that.’
What is Reconciliation Realm?
When Santa pays for gift wrapping and candy canes, this account records the short-term amounts owed.
What is accounts payable?
Name of the first game Guerrilla released under the developer name ''Guerrilla''
What is Shellshock: Nam '67?
In the 1200s this was the name of Amsterdam
What is Amstrelredam?
This type of cost is like a hitchhiker—it gets a free ride on your product but doesn’t directly add value.
What is overhead costs?
This spell-binding potion lets accountants close the books on time, every time, without last-minute surprises.
What is the Elixir of Month-End Peace?
Santa’s elves use this technique to estimate toy demand for next Christmas based on historical trends.
What is trend analysis?
The metascore of Horizon Forbidden West?
What is 88?
Houses in Amsterdam that are located by the canal, were built very narrow and very tall for this specific reason.
What is tax evasion?
These houses were built to evade property tax, as canal-front buildings were historically taxed based on their width – this meant that people usually tried to build the narrowest homes they could.
Finance professionals dread this phrase, and it often goes together with “We had unplanned costs”
What is ''we need more money''?
This book has the superpower to make anyone believe that they are a financial expert
What is "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki