Each case hands you a company's own figures and a question you have to answer with them.
The class teaches the idea. Then the case hands you the filed figures and asks what you would do.
Figures checked against the SEC record on Sep 7 2026Each case gives you the figures and a decision once the class has taught the idea. You work each step on paper before the answer shows.
A wrong answer routes to the explanation rather than to a score. There are no timers and no lives.
| Company | The question | The figures | Course |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | Does a company in the red on working capital have a problem? | Current assets of $143,566M against current liabilities of $145,308M. Negative working capital that nobody worries about. | Intro to Accounting |
| Netflix | Can a profitable year still burn cash? | Net income of $1,867M in 2019 against operating cash flow of negative $2,887M. Profit and cash are different things. | Intro to Accounting |
| Costco | Where does a retailer with thin margins actually earn? | Revenue of $242,290M against merchandise costs of $212,586M. Then membership fees of $4,580M against net income of $6,292M. | Intro to Accounting |
| Apple | Why does a company sitting on cash borrow money? | Operating cash flow of $110,543M. Buybacks of $77,550M and dividends of $15,025M. The case for debt when you do not need it. | Intro to Corporate Finance |
| Alphabet | What share of a search company is the auction? | Google advertising revenue of $237,855M inside total revenue of $307,394M. What that concentration means. | Intro to Performance Marketing |
| Meta Platforms | What does paid social earn per user? | Advertising revenue of $131,948M inside total revenue of $134,902M. Where a social business makes its money. | Intro to Performance Marketing |
| Netflix | How much marketing can a subscription business carry? | Marketing spend read against revenue and against net income, and the payback period it implies at that scale. | Intro to Marketing Finance |
| Anthropic | What does an AI feature cost to run for a year? | Published prices of $1 and $5 per million tokens for Haiku against $5 and $25 for Opus. Cache reads at a tenth of base input. | Intro to AI for Business |
Tenurable is not affiliated with any company named here. Their figures are cited from reports they published themselves.