🏙️ The Business School

A-Level Business Simulation — track your firm's performance in real time

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📌 Your role guide

    ⭐ NEXT STEP
    Capital
    £0
    starting £10,000
    Market share
    0%
    of all deals
    Loans
    0
    active
    ⭐
    Next Step
    Create your first product in the Marketplace to start earning revenue.
    Recent Activity
    All players in real time

    🛒 Marketplace

    Browse products from other firms. Payment transfers automatically.

    Your balance £0
    📌 Marketplace Rules
    • All firms trade with each other — that's the competitive core
    • Press Buy — funds transfer instantly to the seller, visible to all
    • You cannot buy your own products
    • List your own products from Launch Product

    📋 Live RFPs

    Open NPC contracts — lowest qualifying bid wins when the timer closes.

    📊 Market share

    Demand-weighted share for each unlocked B2B service this phase.

    💼 Launch Product or Service

    List it here — other firms can buy from you.

    💡 Selling Tips
    • Lead with the value to the buyer — not just a description
    • Price confidently — you can always negotiate
    • Pick a B2B service below — click to auto-fill the form
    • List multiple products — more listings mean more revenue opportunities

    ✨ New Listing

    B2B service catalogue
    Click to list
    Your listings

    🧠 Strategy: Marketing & R&D

    Run one campaign per phase and one permanent R&D investment per game.

    📣 Marketing Campaigns

    • Each firm can run one campaign per phase (max 3 per game).
    • Any team member can launch campaigns. No CEO approval required.
    • Each launch resolves after a 10-second spinner.

    🔬 R&D Investments

    • Each firm can make one R&D investment per game.
    • The selected R&D effect stays active for the rest of the game.

    🤝 Chat & Boardroom Deals

    Agree deals in the chat, practise in the exercises. Correct answer = +£500 bonus added to your balance.

    💬 How to negotiate

    • All channel — public announcements, market your product
    • Deals — type "OFFER: service £1500" and agree a price
    • Your Team channel — private strategy discussion
    • Agree in Chat → buy from the Marketplace
    💬 Live Chat
    LIVE
    💡 In the Deals channel: type "OFFER: product £1500"
    Boardroom Deal exercises
    Correct answer = +£500 added to your balance

    Capital & Loans

    Draw down a facility to fund growth — interest accrues until repaid.

    Available loans
    Your active loans

    📚 What this teaches you

    • Leverage — bigger investment with borrowed capital
    • Interest rate — the cost of money over time
    • Cash flow — can you actually repay it?
    • Risk — debt amplifies losses just as much as it accelerates gains

    Investments

    Property and equities — passive returns each phase.

    💡 Investing basics
    • Property — stable rental yield, significant capital requirement
    • Equities — higher potential return, greater volatility; equity prices update live (every 30 to 60 seconds).
    • Diversification — don't concentrate all capital in a single asset
    • Returns distributed when teacher advances to the next phase
    🏘️ PropertiesStable yield · per round
    📊 EquitiesLive price & sparkline · server tick ~30–60s, fast poll sync

    💼 Hiring Auction

    Hire up to 2 specialists at a time. Each provides a passive bonus. Legal Counsel renews each phase.

    ⚡ Sabotage

    CEO-authorised competitive actions. Cost paid up-front. Legal Counsel blocks all attacks.

    📋 HMRC Portal & VAT Filing

    Stay compliant — late filing has real financial consequences.

    ⚠️ Why this matters in the real world

    • Every firm is legally required to report its income
    • VAT is 20% in the UK — collected from customers, remitted to HMRC
    • Late filing = automatic interest charges and penalties
    • Repeat non-compliance = HMRC investigation

    🎯 Objectives

    Complete objectives and earn bonus capital. Tracked automatically.

    🎯 Objectives
    🏆 Achievements

    🧾 Balance History

    See every income, profit, reward, and penalty that formed your current balance.

    My desk

    The decisions this seat owns, in the order they matter.

    Questions

    Business knowledge for your selected student level.

    My report

    Your own decisions, your own trades and your own written answers.

    🏆 Leaderboard

    Live rankings — updated in real time.

    Team comparison
    Individual Rankings
    #PlayerCapitalDealsTeam

    📜 Activity Log

    All transactions in real time.