# Cesim ¶

This course is about management using the CESIM hotel simulation game. The game is fun, but since we need to learn a lot from our failures, even though we are graded, we are sharing some feedback here.

• Their website is here

The most important thing in this course is the return on investment (ROI, sur cesim: taux de retour cumulé aux actionnaires). This is the sum of all the money you earned and lost (Net income, Résultat).

## How grades are calculated ¶

At the end of the 8 turns, you must have

1. the greatest increase of ROI. The ranking is made with the value at turn=8 minus the value at turn=4.
2. the greatest ROI at turn=8.
3. the report

You will get two grades according to your ranking for 1 and 2. The final grade is the mean of your three scores.

1. 19/20 (First)
2. 17/20
3. 15/20
4. 13/20
5. 11/20
6. 9/20
7. 8/20 (Last)

You are losing 2 points on the final grade if you end up bankrupt (debt $\ge$ 100%).

## The main idea ¶

You got two periods: winter and summer. You first start a bit before winter and will take some decisions for the next winter. Then the timeline will progress, and you will make decisions for the next summer. You will do that for 8 turns.

You are usually in a team of 4 to 5 persons. Each one of you has a column in Décisions > Liste des décisions. When the countdown reaches 0, the decisions that will be used for the game, are in the column having the name of your team.

You will have some time (a lot, at the start, and only ~1 hour around the end) to make some decisions on your column, then merge everything with Enregistrer ... d'équipe to save your decisions.

At the end of the 4th turn, you will submit a report and have a grade. This grade is only for you to know how much you could have with this report and what you did wrong. The grades for the report in our group were all between 7/20 and 12/20...

## Presentation of the website ¶

Manuals: some documentation about the website. It may be useful when redacting the report or the vocabulary.

Results: explained later, the results of each turn.

## Report (feedback) ¶

Here is some feedback about the report

• always compare yourself with your competitors
• find 6 to 10 relevant ratios
• revenues (CA) per room?
• Previsions vs Result
• market share (part de marché)
• profits returned to the shareholders

And what the teacher gave us

• one report for the turns 1-4 and one for 4-8
• 5 pages + annexes (tables, graphs)
• for the shareholders
• strategy, future developments, goals
• means used to reach your goals (marketing...)
• compare the strategy expected and what happened
• https://www.random.org/ (from $8$ to $12$, $\pm\ 2$)