Nonprofit breakeven analysis : balancing costs and revenue while pitching a play for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Brian A. Vander Schee and Justin O'Brian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vander Schee, Brian A., author.

O'Brien, Justin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Edinburgh Fringe (Festival).

Break-even analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2026.

Summary:

This practical Data Challenge invites students to act as data analysts for recent Leeds University graduate Jay's production team (fiction based on deep research) as they prepare to put on their first Edinburgh Fringe Festival show. Balancing costs and projected revenue forecasts lies at the heart of the numerical analysis, but other ambiguous, qualitative factors also must be considered. Using a narrative text and a simple budget framework, learners identify deliberate errors and omissions in the dataset before assembling a bottom-up spreadsheet budget summary for the show's 1-week proposed run. They then create their own three-scenario sensitivity analysis to consider variations in ticket price, promotional spend, and seats sold. The exercise culminates in crafting a short management presentation that recommends a ticket price and final budget for stakeholders to sign off on. This adaptable social impact Data Challenge helps teach applied data literacy (e.g., accurate formula constructions and auditability), critical judgment (e.g., veracity checks and handling ambiguity), and professional communication (e.g., concise slide deck targeted at nontechnical stakeholders). It is designed for undergraduate and master's programs in entrepreneurship, marketing, strategy, drama, performing arts, liberal arts, innovation, interdisciplinary studies, and consulting. It can be run as a 90- to 120-minute in-person workshop or as a summative group assignment. In exploring the protagonist's early-career building space using business analysis problems in the performing arts, learners are challenged to question their own motivations and future direction. The Fringe Society, a charity that runs the world's largest performing arts festival and theSpaceUK, a commercial enterprise, both have a strong prosocial agenda to support individuals and production companies. Ethically, readers are exposed to the tough financial reality that an inclusive, open-access policy for all and limited social funding for the arts can result in exploitation of immaterial labor.

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ISBN:

979-83-488-5452-2

OCLC:

1568631633

Publisher Number:

T301314