Current mood:	grateful
Current music:	Big Bang - This Love

Uaaa.. I just had a great day!!! *______*
I told you guys yesterday that I will start to play a Business plan game (Unternehmensspiel), and this will last for the next 3 days. Well it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooo fun!!! *_____________*
Attention... who is reading further has to endure a lot of business admnistration stuff...^^;;



Well I had the luck that I actually got great team members in my group. They were all so great... especially our leader, Florian May.. well he is like the 2nd best student of our grade... but he not only just a burner (someone who just study a lot..) but also a brain (someone is just natually damned smart)!! But also everyone else were good. We had 5 peoples in the group, and we seperated the functions between us: Florian had the total financial caculations and planned the lead strategy, Chris built his marketing models and calculated the potential demand (with was quite difficult), Achim was responsible for the balance calculations (even though he is often quite slow and could not follow Flo, but sometimes he really had smart comments) and Fabian had calculate the optimal production function with our machines with respect to the purchasing of materials, so he had production and purchase, and I, I had the "girl job" and was responsible for planning the HR and made calculations about the potential R&D posibilities. Thinking about this, I really had the easiest job... and most of the time I really do not understand how Achim and Flo calculated the EBIT or even the Shareholder share O.o I know that one need to be damned good then in Finance.. I am really thinking now if I really want to specialize myself in Finance XD Well I have just a unclear image of the prcedure.. but it's crazy how they could calculate it so fine! O.o I Even though I could not do so much as the guys, but I find that I did my job pretty well. At least, the dealing with recruitment cost for each functions... which changes after every period. I was in perfect of my function. However how many people I should recruit is firstly demand how many demand we estimate, which was Chris and Flo's job; then how many we can produce, or should produce according to our capacity calculation through Fabian, than he gave me the capacity numbers, which then leaded to my recruitment number and thus also the cost for HR, which then automatically went to Florian's and Achim's calculations... and so on... so it had the most perfect chain effect and everything worked out just as a puzzle. I really think intelligence makes someone beautiful. I really have to wonder about Florian in which great network this guy can think... and how MUCH he knows? I mean until I now I just had some small talks with him about Japan as he is also learning Japanese, but only know that he is extremely intelligence but also really easy going and funny. But today I was impressed... I was impressed how excactly he knew everything about how the market will react when we modify on this or that variable, why the loan interest has been growing as our rating sank, why smaller foreign market is dangerous when we set a too low price as we are facing a recession.. but certainly not all these theoretical and macroeconomical things, but also all these technical and operational things... well try to type in a whole balance and a income statement with regarding to all our variable cost, overhead cost, depreciations, interst rates, liabilities... into a excel sheet and calculate everything without making mistakes... if there are only a couple of variables ok, but not if there are so many? O.o I almost forgot everything I learned last year from mangerial accounting, let alone financial reporting. Of course I still remember the real important part and how everything worked... but still.. operational I will not be able to do this just right away.... but there are people who can do this... and I realized this today with how crazy intelligent people I am actually studying with... and what great gaps there are between the best and the not so good ones. >.< Alone from this game I could learn so much... and it was fun, as I recognize I could assist to them and help where I could, but at the same it was also somewhat frustuating... how much I could still learn and should learn! In order just to come up with them small steps... hmm....
Maybe I am still not a great type of leader who can make decision from what I am convinced that there are absolutely certain and correct... maybe I will be just some kind of person, following or assisting people like Florian or Fabian... I do not know. The only thing I know, that I will still study..., get practical experiences, study and study... until a day I have the confidence to go out of the world to say: ok now I am ready! Ready for making decision, for taking responsibilities, and for being a full member and part of the society.

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By the way do I have to mention that we were in both period in the first two rounds one of the two from 6 companies who had the best company operating profit before and after tax and the highest share price ^^ I hope this will go on the next 4 periods, and we are not committing any mistakes right now, because some big mistakes can kick us out from market fast than we can look. Tomorrow morning we are going to know the result from the 3rd periods. We planned to launch a sales volume of our new product around 56000, which was again 8000 more than last period, 2/3 in our old market and 1/3 in our new market. We just wanted to use the 2nd foreign market as some back up when we are not able to meet our planning volume for the first market... of course under the consumption that some of our competitors are now try to get down with the price and be the price leader, and also because our home market is facing a recession in the over next round. Our strategy was the Product differeciating instead of price leadership as the 2nd option is going to be always taff and less flexible... our strategy to invest in the 3rd new product, and more in F&E, and in new production assemblies.. but still try to produce as much as we are planning to sell as we do not want any inventories or stand over personal cost, even worser the reluctant maintenance cost or material cost would be also sunk cost or we have to sell them cheaply to bigger retailers...
Just hoping in the next period there are no big surprises.. and the upcoming recession is not going to hit us so hart!!!! ^^;;;

So going to bed... need to get up early for the 2nd game day!!! Looking forwards it! I will write how we did then! hehe