Food Truck & Accounting simulation
Operate a food truck or mobile cart business — sell food, clothing, electronics, and more. Gain practical accounting skills.
Format
Online
CD
Network
Learner
College
& Adult
G 10–12
G 7–9
G K–6
Pre K
Depth
Duration
Language
Detailed
MAX
dozens
of hours
English
Moderate
MIN
1 hour
Intro
Latest version 3.0
PRICES & BUY
Big upgrade coming soon!
SCREENSHOTS
VIDEO
TRIAL
Simulation Details
- GoVenture FOOD TRUCK & ACCOUNTING is an easy-to-use business simulation that introduces students to the experience of starting and running a business and (optionally) practice accounting. This business simulator is the perfect first step for younger students or adults who need to start with the basics of business.
- Operate a food truck or mobile cart business — sell food, clothing, electronics, and more.
- Manage the fundamentals of a business — price products, buy inventory, advertise, hire employees, manage schedules, review financial statements, practice accounting, and more.
- Monitor success by evaluating profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction.
- Host student competitions by comparing performance results.
- Optionally gain practical accounting skills and directly experience the impact and importance of accounting in business — see details below.
- Provides several hours of individual and repeat play over days and weeks.
- Ideal for youth and adults in self-directed or facilitated learning.
- An introductory-level business simulator enhanced with a complete curriculum that provides dozens of hours of learning — see below for everything included.
Activities, topics,
and outcomes
With over 180 activities, topics, and outcomes covered, GoVenture Food Truck makes it quick and easy to deliver curriculum-matched outcomes in a way that is problem-based, cross-curriculum, thematic, and holistic.
Help
Technical Support
Sales Questions
Education QuestionsCONTACT
Case Studies
Accounting Features
Accounting Entry Window
The simulation will not proceed until you make the correct entry. If you get stuck, you have two options:
View Hint
Basic information is displayed to help you better understand the current transaction.
Show Answer
The answer will be provided for you.
In order to minimize use of the above options, the number of times they are accessed is tracked and displayed in the simulation Performance Report.
This allows an instructor/facilitator to determine if the learner is doing the transactions correctly on his own and making positive progress as the simulation continues.
Financial Reports, such as Balance Sheet, Income Statement, General Ledgers, General Journal, and several others, are created automatically by the simulation, based upon the accounting entries posted. Instructors/Facilitators can assign additional learning activities external to the simulation using spreadsheets and other approaches. Instructors can also choose to turn the Balance Sheet and Income Statement OFF, thereby requiring students to generate their own financials using paper or spreadsheet.
PRICES & BUY
GoVenture Food Truck simulation enables you to gain practical accounting skills while running a virtual business. More than learning basic bookkeeping, GoVenture Food Truck puts you in the role of a business owner where you can directly experience the impact and importance of accounting in a business.
Practice makes perfect!
Knowing the mechanics of accounting does not necessarily mean one has a strong understanding of accounting as a fundamental foundation of business and finance.
With GoVenture Food Truck you learn by doing. Every transaction is entered in the context of a real business situation — a business that you operate for days, months, or years.
How it works
The manual accounting features of GoVenture Food Truck can be turned ON or OFF. When turned OFF, all accounting entries are made automatically by the simulation.
When turned ON, you have to make each accounting entry manually, at the moment a financial transaction occurs while running your virtual business.
There are several transactions that require posting. Many are repeated each virtual day of the simulation.
View transaction list 
Accounting Transactions
- Seed Financing
- Logo Design
- Permits
- Equipment Purchase
- Daily Sales Revenue
- Inventory Purchase
- Appearance and Quality Investments
- Advertising
- Payroll
- Transportation
- Trailer Rental
- Maintenance
- Loan Payments
Education Bundle Resources
View samples of these resources
Adobe PDF (1.7MB)
Education Bundle Resources are included in Adobe PDF format with your product purchase (certain licenses excluded). Click the PRICES tab for details.
More Than a Simulation — A Complete Curriculum!
Over 50 lesson plans and activities designed to bring business education alive in the classroom. Every key decision a business owner needs to make in starting and running a business is addressed.
Learning & Activity Book
Learning Guides & Activities
Hundreds of multiple-choice questions that you can copy and paste to build your own printable tests. Coming soon!
Test Bank
A helpful feature included in the software simulation that displays detailed simulation results, assigns a score to performance based upon a number of factors, and can be printed out as a report for evaluation.
Performance Report
Helps students learn the fundamental concepts of business and entrepreneurship. The 240-page book is easy to read with large text and lots of examples to make fundamental business concepts easy to understand. Students can use it as a reference for topics they need help with, or read it from cover to cover to gain practical business wisdom.
FREE Resources
Product Videos
Watch demonstration and training videos - the best way to get started quickly.
Award Certificates
Printable certificates for rewarding learner achievement.
Case Studies
Examples of how GoVenture is being used by others.
Standardize On GoVenture
Why states and districts are adopting GoVenture as a curriculum standard.
Software User Guide
Tutorial and guide are built into the simulation.
Education Standards Maps
See how GoVenture maps to specific education standards.
GoTeacher
A free newsletter to help educators bring learning to life.
GoVenture Sponsorship Program
A special resource for schools and nonprofits to help find the funds needed to purchase GoVenture.
Instructor Guide
A guide to using GoVenture in the classroom or in a business training environment.
Cheat Sheet
Summarizes helpful business and money information into a single sheet of paper.
GoVentureOasis.com
A free website containing a wealth of business tools, activities, and games.
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