These observations in a large business environment, enrich the options viewed by any one team. In this simulation, individual students invest in the firms participating in Global View. They may then invest in a variety of stocks, a treasury bill fund or a market index fund. Each successive quarter, students have the option to review their investment portfolios, given the new market information provided from the computer run. Dividends and interest are paid directly to each account.
Interest is charged if funds have been borrowed.
Broker has several key functions. Primarily this simulation encourages students to develop a broader perspective of the central simulation. Rather than focusing on their own firm, students must look at a host of firms to see who is doing well and who is doing poorly, how they will do in the future, and what factors are influencing this movement. Broker also brings students to the realization that corporate teams have real stockholders, and that those stockholders have expectations and concerns. A firm which fails to issue public notice of a large stock issue, for example, may be held accountable for this neglect by its stockholders.