My financial standings in the BSG simulation were not ideal. I was in last place for my group. This was due to several reasons. The main reason is due to the fact that I took out a loan during the second week. I was never able to make any money after this because I could not pay the loan back quick enough. This just kept putting me further and further in the hole financially. Below is a graph showing my net profit compared to the industry average net profit every year. Net profit is the actual profit after working expenses. My net profit is significantly lower than the average every year but year eleven. As I stated earlier, this is because of the amount of debt I owed from taking out a loan in year twelve. I also significantly brought down the industry average because there was that big of a gap between my score and everyone else’s. Another reason I did not do as well as I had hoped in the standings is the fact that I failed to participate in two years of decision making rounds. One was because I have pneumonia, and the second was due on a Thursday instead of a Tuesday like we are used to so I honestly just forgot. This definitely had an impact on my final score; however, I do believe it is minimal. At this point I had already fallen so behind to the point where I did not know how to fix it. I may have lost a total of a point or two in the long run, but it was not going to impact my score significantly. The following pie chart shows the average return on equity for companies A-G. Return on equity is the amount of net income returned as a percentage of shareholders equity. Return on equity measures a corporation's profitability by revealing how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested. As you can see my return on equity (team D) is zero. Everyone else seems to be in the same ballpark between a range of eight to fifteen.