Due Diligence Club

A company reports a profit, but its cash is shrinking. A cheap acquisition needs more funding than expected. A fund grows – but is that investment performance or new investor money? Due Diligence Club is an economic strategy game on a retro computer desktop. Read simplified income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements. Compare several years, highlight suspicious figures and decide what to do. The outcome explains which clues mattered. Six roles, different decisions: • Entrepreneur: Review and negotiate acquisitions. Build a group over 60 game years while managing loans, dividends and liquidity. • Fund Manager: Allocate capital over 50 years in quarterly turns. Investor demand, your mandate and peer-fund performance affect inflows and withdrawals. • Hedge Fund Manager: Trade monthly over ten years. Long and short positions, leverage and catalysts create opportunities, but…