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Financial Modeling & Valuation Challenges
Financial Modeling & Valuation challenges put you inside the work of pricing companies, deals, and assets. You'll develop skills in Financial Statement Reading, Time Value of Money, Three-Statement Modeling, and DCF, then test what you build with sensitivity & scenario analysis.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — LBO modeling, M&A accretion/dilution, precedent transactions, and private equity waterfall modeling — running due diligence and comparable companies analysis the way deal teams actually do, and stretching into structured deal modeling and derivatives pricing. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Bundled Pricing Business Case for an Industrial IoT Vendor
Using the company facts in the company case file, the historical deal records in the deal-history dataset, and the required sections listed in the board business case template, …
- Business Case
- Financial Modeling
- Pricing Strategy
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Charting the Course: Ewance's Strategic Entry into the European Higher-Ed Market
Ewance has established a strong presence in its home market, but the leadership team believes significant untapped potential exists across Europe. The goal of this challenge is …
- Market Analysis
- Business Strategy
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Optimizing Renewable Energy Project Finance Model
You are a financial analyst at a renewable energy consultancy. SunPower Iberia has provided detailed cost estimates, PPA terms (20-year fixed price), and local tax incentives. Y…
- Project Finance
- Debt Scheduling
- Irr Npv
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Growth Strategy for an Amsterdam D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to analyze GlowUp Naturals' current performance, assess the offline retail opportunity (e.g., partnerships with Sephora or independent boutiques), and propose a pha…
- Market Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Channel Strategy
Open coursework Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- DesignIntermediateNew
Resolve the Quota Double-Spend: Design Meterly's Order-Provisioning Schema
Working only from the materials provided, reach and defend a database design. Read the de-identified incident record (incident-file) and the business-rules brief (requirements-b…
- Transactions
- Acid
- Isolation Levels
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Design a Circular Business Model for EcoWear
Acting as EcoWear's business model innovation analyst, examine the EcoWear company file, the customer behavior dataset, the operations brief, and the circular economy industry r…
- Circular Economy
- Business Model Canvas
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimize Capital Structure for an Austin Cosmetics Startup
Using the company financial profile and the comparable-companies dataset provided to you, model how different debt-to-equity mixes change the firm's weighted average cost of cap…
- Capital Structure Analysis
- Wacc Calculation
- Modigliani Miller
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Diversification Strategy for a Regional Brewery
Your task is to analyze the brewery's current value chain and core competencies, then evaluate three diversification options using the Ansoff Matrix and relatedness criteria. Yo…
- Diversification Strategy
- Value Chain Analysis
- Ansoff Matrix
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Valuation of a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up for Series A
Your team will act as a boutique valuation advisory. You must gather comparable public SaaS companies (e.g., from the Cloud ERP or data integration space) and calculate relevant…
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
- Financial Modeling
Corporate Finance - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Valuing a Toronto D2C Cosmetics Scale-Up
Your task is to build a financial model projecting GlowUp's cash flows for 5 years, estimate terminal value, and derive an equity value per share. You must also select a peer gr…
- Financial Modeling
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Simulation-Based Customer Success Staffing Plan for Flowly
Using the historical ticket log, the growth-scenarios brief, and the current-operations and service-level specification provided to you, build a discrete-event simulation of Flo…
- Simulation
- Capacity Planning
- Scenario Analysis
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Financial Model for a SaaS Scale-Up's PLG to Enterprise Shift
You are part of a 3-person financial modeling team. TaskFlow provides project management software and currently has 10,000 free users and 500 paying customers (ACV $1,200). The …
- Saas Metrics
- Revenue Modeling
- Excel Dashboard
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Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Going Concern and Evidence Strategy for a UK Retailer
Individually, prepare an audit evidence strategy memorandum addressing Cotswold Home's going concern assessment for the year ending 31 March. Critically evaluate management's 18…
- Going Concern Assessment
- Audit Evidence Evaluation
- Sensitivity Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
M&A Strategy: Should Precision Parts Acquire MicroGears?
Using the financial-data workbook and the industry benchmarks memo provided, value MicroGears Ltd. two ways — a discounted-cash-flow analysis and a comparable-transactions analy…
- Mergers And Acquisitions
- DCF Valuation
- Synergy Estimation
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cost-Model a Foundation-Model API Migration
You receive: 90 days of API logs (request volume, token distributions), the customer's golden eval set of 200 prompts, the incumbent and new pricing schedules, and quality ratin…
- Cost Modeling
- Ai Strategy
- Model Evaluation
AI for Business and AI Product Management - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cost of Capital and Capital Structure for a Renewable Energy Firm
Your task is to estimate GreenGrid's current cost of equity using CAPM (risk-free rate 2%, market risk premium 6%, beta 1.2), cost of debt (4.5% pre-tax), and tax rate (22%). Th…
- Wacc
- Capm
- Capital Structure
Corporate Finance - StrategyIntermediateNew
Evaluate and Launch TaskFlow's Developer Platform Strategy
Using the four materials provided (the TaskFlow company dossier, the competitor ecosystem landscape brief, the financial and customer baseline dataset, and the developer demand …
- Platform Business Models
- API Economy
- Ecosystem Governance
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Designing a Circular Supply Chain for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
Your task is to design a circular supply chain for EcoThreads' take-back program. You must decide on collection methods (mail-in, in-store drop-off, lockers), partner with a rec…
- Reverse Logistics
- Circular Economy
- Sustainability Reporting
Operations and Supply Chain Management - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a Multi-Criteria Vendor Selection Tool for an AI Consulting Firm
You will design a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA, a structured way to score options against weighted criteria) tool that accepts 6-10 vendor options, 6-12 weighted crite…
- Mcda
- Decision Support Systems
- Streamlit
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Field-Valuing a Paris Subscription Cosmetics Scale-Up
Investigate using ONLY the supplied materials and the public sources listed in them. First, read the company data pack (case-file) to extract historical revenue, margins, subscr…
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Design a Go/No-Go CVP Model for EcoWear Activewear
Design a CVP decision model and proposal for EcoWear's biodegradable activewear line using only the EcoWear Activewear Cost & Assumptions Brief and the Comparable Activewear SKU…
- Cvp Analysis
- Break Even Analysis
- Sensitivity Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
LBO of a German Industrial Components Manufacturer
Conduct a full LBO analysis: build a financial model projecting EBITDA, debt repayment, and returns under base and downside scenarios. Propose a capital structure (senior debt, …
- Financial Modeling
- LBO Analysis
- Due Diligence
Private Equity - StrategyBeginnerNew
UK Market Entry Strategy for GlowDublin Cosmetics
Develop a complete go-to-market strategy for GlowDublin's launch in the United Kingdom, working only from the materials you have been given: the GlowDublin company snapshot (its…
- Market Analysis
- Competitive Analysis
- Go To Market Strategy
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery for a Lisbon Grocery Startup
Your task is to build a linear programming model (or heuristic) to assign orders to vehicles and sequence deliveries. Success means reducing average route length by at least 15%…
- Linear Programming
- Python
- Route Optimization
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