Industry Finance
Every sector has its own vocabulary of numbers: open-to-buy in retail, cost per mile in trucking, load factor in airlines, ARPU in telecom, grade and tonnage in mining. These courses teach each of them in the setting where they matter, with one realistic case per course that you calculate yourself in a spreadsheet, getting feedback on every cell.
The 33 industry courses include e-commerce sellers, retail merchandising, manufacturing OEE, warehouses and last-mile delivery, fleets and car rental, shipping and airports, oil and gas, solar and battery storage, EV charging, semiconductors, apparel, film and music, publishing, childcare, dairy, forestry and vertical farming. They suit people moving into a new sector and specialists who want to check their own models.
Industry FinanceWork out landed cost, marketplace fees, ACOS and TACOS, returns, reorder quantities, cash cycle, free-shipping thresholds and a SKU-mix P&L in real spreadsheets, with every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceTrack restricted funds, build a statement of activities, split functional expenses, price indirect costs, build and monitor grant budgets and size your reserves, every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceWork out markups, markdowns, sell-through, stock turn and GMROI, an open-to-buy plan, store KPIs and shrink for a fashion and home retailer, with every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceRun the numbers of a small trucking company: cost per mile, deadhead, dispatcher fees, fuel surcharges, lane choice, utilisation, break-even rates and a 3-truck fleet P&L, with every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceEstimate the yield and degradation of a rooftop PV system, value self-consumption and export, then work out payback, LCOE, NPV and IRR with a loan, a battery option and a two-way sensitivity table, in 8 graded labs.
Industry FinanceWork out crop gross margins, compare crops with livestock, find break-even yields and prices, set the most profitable fertiliser rate, cost machinery, budget feed, plan seasonal cash flow and read farm ratios like a lender, with every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceMeasure OEE by shift and the six big losses, balance a line to takt, find the bottleneck, read MTBF and MTTR, cost SMED, scrap and rework, and plan capacity against demand – every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceLoad factor, yield, RASK, CASK and break-even load factor, Littlewood and EMSR-b booking limits, no-show forecasts and overbooking, booking curves, network contribution, ancillaries and dynamic pricing: 8 graded labs on one fictional airline.
Industry FinanceConvert barrels, mcf and BOE, forecast production with Arps decline curves, estimate EUR, build netbacks and a monthly well cash flow with NPV10, find the breakeven oil price, measure F&D cost and recycle ratio, and draw a tornado chart: 8 graded labs with illustrative numbers.
Industry FinanceManage a service-van fleet by the numbers: cost per km, TCO with NPV, the optimal replacement age, lease vs buy, EV vs diesel, utilisation, fuel card anomalies and maintenance planning, with every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceRoll a mobile subscriber base forward, measure ARPU and churn, value customers after handset subsidies, size busy-hour capacity and a coverage rollout, run tower and spectrum economics and bridge EBITDA – every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceMeasure pick rates against labour standards, plan hours and staff per shift, slot SKUs by ABC with a Pareto chart, price the travel saved, measure space and cube utilisation, size dock doors, track the perfect order and cost every client with ABC – every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceModel a courier depot in Excel: drops per hour, cost per drop, route capacity, failed deliveries, lockers vs doorstep, gig vs employed drivers, zone pricing and peak-season vans, every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceConvert tonnes and grades into ounces and pounds, build a grade-tonnage curve, find break-even and marginal cut-off grades, test strip ratios, calculate NSR per tonne, schedule a mine life, value the mine with NPV and IRR, and build AISC per ounce with a gold-price sensitivity: 8 graded labs on a fictional gold-copper deposit.
Industry FinanceSize batteries in kW and kWh, account for round-trip losses, find the best charge and discharge hours with SMALL and LARGE, model degradation, stack arbitrage, capacity and frequency-response revenue, value a home battery with solar, and calculate LCOS, NPV and payback: 8 graded labs with illustrative prices.
Industry FinanceEstimate a dry-bulk voyage from sea days and the bunker cube rule to port costs, tiered canal dues, voyage P&L and TCE, find the best slow-steaming speed, settle laytime and demurrage, price container freight per TEU and put a carbon cost on CO₂: 8 graded labs with illustrative rates.
Industry FinanceFinance a fictional independent feature: build the top sheet, stack equity, presales, tax incentive and gap loan, schedule the cash, split the box office, then run the recoupment waterfall, the break-even and four scenarios, in 8 graded labs.
Industry FinanceRun a car dealership by the numbers: front-end and F&I gross, PVR and penetration, gross per unit and mix, used-car ageing and days supply, floorplan interest vs holdback, trade-in appraisal, service absorption and break-even units – 8 labs, every cell checked instantly.
Industry FinanceEstimate gross dies per wafer, model yield with Poisson, Murphy and negative binomial, cost a good die and a shipped chip after test and packaging, test a die shrink, price speed bins and plan fab utilisation: 8 graded labs on a fictional chip company (illustrative numbers).
Industry FinanceWork out fabric per garment from the marker, cost trims from the BOM, price CMT from SAM × cost per minute, build an FOB cost sheet and the landed cost, split an order by size ratio, set wholesale and retail prices and chart how markdowns melt the margin: 8 graded labs on a fictional brand and factory.
Industry FinanceCalculate stocking density and biomass, roll survival through a cycle, measure growth with SGR, compare biological and economic FCR, price a harvest by size grade, build the cost per kg, plan the cycle cash flow and break-even price, and test the margin against FCR and survival: 8 graded labs on a fictional salmon farm.
Industry FinanceMeasure tree and stand volume, build a yield table with MAI and CAI, find the biological, economic and Faustmann rotations, value thinnings by present value and estimate carbon credits from growth: 8 graded labs on a fictional conifer stand.
Industry FinanceCost filament and resin from grams, build a machine hourly rate, adjust print time for failures, price post-processing labour, quote with margin and a minimum order, chart the batch cost curve, compare FDM, SLA and outsourcing and track job profit: 8 graded labs on a fictional print service.
Industry FinanceAnalyse a fictional city's bus and tram network: boardings per revenue hour, crowding, headways and vehicles needed, a cost allocation model, farebox recovery and subsidy, fare elasticity scenarios, on-time performance and a route ranking dashboard, with every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceRun the numbers of a fictional regional airport: passengers and movements with the design peak hour, landing fees by MTOW and passenger charges, stand occupancy, a security queue model, concession revenue with minimum guarantees, parking, cost per passenger and EBITDA, and traffic scenarios against capacity, with every cell checked as you go.
Industry FinanceRead the herd structure, chart a lactation curve, price milk by fat and protein, cost the ration per litre, track income over feed cost, value heifer rearing, cull cows and calves, and find the cost of production and break-even milk price: 8 graded labs on a fictional family dairy farm.
Industry FinanceSet the rates of a fictional municipal water utility: the revenue requirement (cash-needs approach), a demand forecast and water balance with non-revenue water, fixed charges by meter equivalents, increasing block bills, a revenue check with the rate needed, bill impacts with a chart, affordability by income group and drought surcharges: 8 graded labs with illustrative numbers.
Industry FinanceFollow a fictional artist from the streaming pool to the bank: pro-rata payouts, per-stream rates, master vs publishing, split sheets and producer points, advance recoupment, distributor vs label, sync and performance income and a catalogue valuation, in 8 graded labs. Illustrative rates; not affiliated with any service or society; not legal advice.
Industry FinanceRun the numbers of a fictional novel: unit economics by format, royalties on list vs net with escalators, advance earn-out, print runs and returns reserves, format margins, self-publishing break-even, a title P&L waterfall and backlist lifetime value, in 8 graded labs. Illustrative figures; not affiliated with any publisher or platform.
Industry FinanceMeasure utilisation, ADR and RevPAC, size the fleet for the season, cost depreciation and every rental day, price by lead time and occupancy, cost one-way repositioning and pick the hold period for an annual P&L: 8 graded labs on a fictional rental company.
Industry FinanceMeasure sessions, kWh and utilisation per charger, estimate charging time by power level, rebuild bills with demand charges, compare per-kWh, per-minute and idle-fee pricing, size a site for its peak hour, budget capex with grants and calculate payback, NPV and break-even utilisation: 8 graded labs for a fictional operator with illustrative tariffs.
Industry FinanceWork out licensed capacity by room, staff every room to ratio with ROUNDUP, turn part-time enrolment into FTE and occupancy, price tuition across a private and subsidy mix, cost open-to-close shifts, find the cost per child and margin by room, forecast enrolment from the waitlist and test break-even occupancy and a new room: 8 graded labs on a fictional early learning center.
Industry FinanceTurn racks and tiers into grow area and plant numbers, calculate crop cycles and yield per m², convert a light recipe (PPFD, DLI) into kWh per kg, add cooling and dehumidification, compare water and nitrogen with field farming, plan labour, build the cost per kg and price, and test the payback against the electricity price: 8 graded labs on a fictional indoor farm.
Markup vs margin explained: both formulas, how to convert one into the other, a price from a target margin and a conversion table, in an Excel example.
Calculate trucking cost per mile: fixed and variable costs, fuel at 2026 diesel prices, deadhead and the break-even rate per loaded mile. Excel example.
The LCOE formula, present value of costs ÷ present value of energy, with a 25-year rooftop solar example in Excel and the one-cell NPV shortcut.
Time charter equivalent (TCE) formula: net freight minus voyage costs ÷ voyage days, slow steaming and a time-charter offer compared. Excel example.
They use realistic but illustrative figures, so the method stays the focus and the numbers do not go out of date. Swap in your own data once you know the structure.
Yes. Each course introduces the terms it uses. They are often taken by people preparing for a new role or evaluating a business in that sector.
Each course is a single purchase of $9.99. That covers every lesson and lab, the final exam and the certificate, with no subscription and nothing that renews.
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