GoVenture
“Gain years of experience . . . in minutes!”
Experience and Plan Your Financial Future in a Realistic and Fun Learning Simulation!
Experience and Plan Your Financial Future in a Realistic and Fun Learning Simulation!
Experience Your Financial Future — Today ... GoVenture Personal Finance is a realistic software simulation designed to help youth and adults learn about personal money management decisions in a fun and educational manner. Like a flight simulator for finance and life, GoVenture Personal Finance enables you to learn-by-doing. It’s easy to use, visual, interactive, and exciting! Establish your life plan, enter your financial information — income, expenses, assets, liabilities — and then live your financial future: 5, 10, 20, or up to 50 years. Decide where to invest your money — savings account, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and more! Watch your investments grow and shrink based upon the economy, your investment decisions, and your personal spending habits. Will you be wealthy or bankrupt in the future? Can you afford to buy that new car or home today? Should you invest in a rental property or the stock market? When can you retire? Try GoVenture Personal Finance and find out! Practice your money management skills on your own, or against your friends and classmates. Learn how financial markets operate. Gain practical experience so you have the knowledge and ability to plan your own financial future. Unlike any book, course, or seminar, GoVenture Personal Finance enables you to gain years of finance and life experience in minutes! Play again and again — every new simulation you run is different! Ideal for Youth and Adults, Learners and Instructors ... GoVenture Personal Finance is ideal for youth and adults in self-directed or facilitated learning environments. GoVenture Personal Finance is also the perfect complement to any finance, business, economics, math, career, or family and consumer sciences course. It includes: • Software Simulation • Experiencing Personal Finance — a concise and easy-to-read resource guide to personal finance • User Guide • Performance Evaluation Reports Educational licenses also include: • Instructor Guide • Learning Guides and Activities • Test Bank ... and much more! Run an entire session of GoVenture Personal Finance within minutes, or over an extended period of time. Compare your results to those of other learners investing in the same economic conditions. Use a single computer, or play on multiple computers — over a local network or the Internet.
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Your Life
Map out the key events in your personal future — marriage, children, new home, cars, major vacations, education plans, retirement timetable, and other personal objectives. Monitor progress on your Life Plan. Record your educational and training plans. Get married. Have or adopt children. Take a vacation. Retire. Determine if you will meet your financial objectives, today and in the future. Pay bills. Buy a car, home, or other personal use assets. Apply for a loan or mortgage. Manage cash and bank accounts.
Cash, Assets & Liabilities
Life Plan
Income & Expenses
Enter your income and expenses, and adjust these for changing jobs and family expenses. Manage your cash flow. Determine if you can support your desired lifestyle.
Investments
Economy
Invest in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and real estate. Or, you can try gambling on the lottery! Review economic indicators in real time: Growth, Interest, Inflation, and Unemployment Rates. Adjust your financial strategy according to market conditions.
Performance
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Review and print a detailed report of your simulation results, and obtain a performance score.
GoVenture Resources
Unlike conventional educational materials, games and Internet portals, GoVenture offers a comprehensive learning experience. Simulations are combined with a wide range of learning resources for quick and easy integration into self-directed or facilitated learning environments.
GoVenture for You ...
Personal Planning Planning your future is perhaps the most important strategy you must develop and monitor. GoVenture allows you to experience up to 50 years of virtual results in a few hours – and more importantly, learn from this experience. You can see what happens in different economic environments, and with different investment portfolios. You can even learn how to adjust for unexpected events. GoVenture can make you better prepared to address your actual personal financial future. Education GoVenture has been designed to be suitable for a variety of instructional approaches and levels. Whether the need is to create a completely new curriculum or to enhance an existing one, GoVenture offers a successful and valuable experience for instructors and learners, from middle school to adult education. Investment GoVenture can be played as an investment simulation. It challenges you to manage investment portfolios of a variety of securities and real property. You need portfolio strategies to balance risk, income generation and growth. You are placed in changing economic conditions which will further challenge your investment skills. The ability to play over and over again at no real financial risk helps develop an in-depth understanding of investing. Career and Family GoVenture provides you with the ability to plan major career and family objectives, and then simulates how they might affect your personal finances and future goals. It helps you develop a greater understanding of the financial and time commitments needed to meet these objectives. Economics GoVenture brings the study of economics to life in a controlled environment. Key economic factors are simulated, without the complexity of true worldwide economies. Using the GoVenture experience, you can learn how economic changes influence markets and affect you on a personal level. Mathematics GoVenture can be used to enhance mathematical skills. While prices and current totals are calculated by the simulation, you must project your cash requirements, investment returns, and future expenses so that you can manage your cash flow and increase your net worth. Life Skills Training GoVenture helps develop a number of necessary skills for success in the fast-paced Knowledge Economy, including: planning, just-in-time learning, problem solving, organization, critical thinking, and risk management. GoVenture addresses life skills training directly by immersing you in a simulated world of experience that transcends the limitations of traditional teaching and learning approaches.
All GoVenture Personal Finance licenses include: GoVenture Personal Finance Software Simulation A highly visual, realistic, and interactive software simulation program that allows you to experience the thrills and challenges of planning your financial future in a realistic and fun learning environment. User Guide, Simulation Help and Advisor Window Print materials included with the simulation software and visual tools in the simulation designed to introduce you and your learners to GoVenture, and to help you become quickly comfortable with using the program. Experiencing Personal Finance An Illustrated Introduction to Personal Finance A concise, easy-to-read resource guide that outlines the basics on all the major personal finance issues and investment options. Performance Report A helpful software tool that displays detailed simulation results, assigns a score to the performance based upon a number of factors, and can be printed out as a report. GoVenture.NETwork — www.goventure.net A free website containing a wealth of business tools, activities, and games.
Educational packages and other licenses can include some or all of the following learning resources. Check your license for complete details: Instructor Guide A guide to help you learn about GoVenture and the various resources that are available for using GoVenture in the classroom or in a business or life skills training environment. Learning Guides and Activities Instructor and Student Editions Lessons and activities designed to bring education on calculating your net worth, mapping future financial needs, managing cash flows and investment portfolios, and meeting personal finance challenges alive in the classroom. Test Bank A selection of objective questions which can be used in creating tests on investing, cash management, life planning, and other information contained in the Experiencing Personal Finance guide. GoVenture Live the Learning A free newsletter to help educators and facilitators bring business to life!
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What you need to use this software ... CD-ROM Version • Pentium-based PC • Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP/NT4.0 (Macintosh version coming soon) • At least 32MB of Memory (RAM) • CD-ROM drive (to install) • Sound (optional) • Internet connection (optional) ISBN 1-894353-08-0 Software License included with program. Online INTERNET Version (availability may vary) • Pentium-based PC, Power Macintosh or iMac computer • Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP/NT4.0 or Mac OS 7.5.5 or later • At least 32MB of Memory (RAM) • Internet connection • Internet Explorer or Netscape, version 4.0 or later • Macromedia Shockwave plugin (free download) • Sound (optional)
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