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aiden3 | 1 year ago
You should also make the tutorials/mini assignments slightly harder. Its really easy to calculate EBITDA margin when there are 2 lines on the page: revenue and EBITDA. It would be better if there were a few red herrings (like in a real financial statement/operating model). It would be even better if there were some harder stages where someone needs to first calculate EBITDA through the income statement, and then EBITDA margin.
Final piece of feedback: the various mini assignments in a module should all operate off of the same broader set of tabs/excel sheet. It would be rewarding to keep filling out more and more of the broader model, and also to have the context of the entire financial model available at any given time.
Happy to chat more. I would like to add something like this to my team's employee onboarding / training process.
aiden3|1 year ago
- In my wide monitor, the circle on the dark circle on the left that is supposed to be the background to the white descriptive text does not scale at the same rate as the text.. Which means that I can't read the right hand side of the text when opening the page wider than half of my screen (microsoft edge).
- Not a fan of the 3d birds on every page, sorry. If there needs to be birds, I prefer the birds on the homepage to the AI-generated looking ones on the /learn/module pages.
- Would be great to have 5+ LBO model building exercises for different business types/different formats.
- I don't know if this works in Google Sheets, but it would be good to have an exercise where people build a sensitivity table.
- An exercise where someone had to go to the investor relations website of a particular company, download a historical 10Q, seek out information from the income statement or balance sheet, and then calculate a metric or ratio would be excellent. (i.e,. something that brings you out of the context of Quantus/the in browser spreadsheet, but trains more on the actual action of seeking and using public filing data).
- I haven't been through everything, so you may already have it, but a double entry accounting exercise would be interesting. I find that people who haven't taken accounting courses in the past sometimes struggle with how the 3 statements fit together.
misstercool|1 year ago
- Agree with you on adding more challenging quizzes!
- Having the various mini assignments in a module on the same tab is an interesting idea.
- Regarding the bird lol, yea, I do plan to redesign the UI at some point to make it more professional look
- We are adding a few more LBO cases
- Sensitive table is a good idea
- Regarding your suggestion on auto-pulling finance data to build dynamic exercise, that is something I have been thinking about from the beginning.
- Double entry accounting is interesting! actually I have been considering building training materials to the offshore accounting firms.
Thank you so very much taking time playing around the tool and writing these thoughtful feedback! Really appreciate it!!