To begin with I must say that I'm not en expert in economics, but I must say that I think that some things are really strange in this game.
If I take a loan, my profit and my company value is not increased, right?
How come that when I repay a loan, that my company value and profit is dropping with the same amount that I just repaid?
How come that I make a profit every week for 30 weeks of 3-5-7 millions per week but my company value has just gone up from -50 to -20 millions, and my money from 20 to 50 millions? It should be an increase of 100-150 millions but is just 30 millions. Where is the profit disappearing?
It really doesn't make sens, please help me, whats wrong?
Why would you have an increase of 100-150 million? You said yourself that your value went from -50 to -20. That's a 30m difference and that justifies your 30m increase in your money.
If I make a profit of 3-7 millions per week in 30 weeks, gives 30x5 = 150m in profit. Why just 30m in money, where is the rest of the profit?
I haven't done any other transactions during that time. I haven't bought or sold any thing.. Just running my Airline with profit, but still have no money. Profit margn -1.28%... in my eyes it doesn't make sense.
There should be "T" Accounts set up.
The value of a company is Assets minus Liabilities.
When you take out a loan, you have an increase of $xxx in your Cash Account. An accountant then puts $xxx into your Liabilities (Long Term Debt) Account. Cash is an asset. Debt is a liability. Therefore, when you take a loan out, there should be no change in your company's value. Conversely, when you pay a loan off, there should be no change in value.
Where the game's error is is in the income screen. Paying a loan back takes away from your annual income when it shouldn't. However, taking the loan out does nothing to your income statement. Essentially (and I want this tested), let's assume that you have a $100 million profit year to date and it is December 31st. Can it be so easy that I can take a loan out for $100 million and immediately repay it in order to show that I profited nothing for the year? The only deduction one can take from loans is the interest that is PAID (not accrued).
Are you getting your weekly profit amount from the income statement or the economy overview? Overview shows pretax profit so you would have to deduct an additional %25-%30 depending on where you are based.