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Powered by continuously evolving multi-agent technology, Equinox.ai creates immersive finance practice and interview simulations for every learner. Build an AI competency profile and match it to the skills real roles demand, moving from capability building to the next career step.
How this differs from question banks and video courses
Exam questions hand you a complete set of inputs. Business does not. A course opens with a situation and a question; which data is missing, who holds it, and whether their definition can be used as-is are all yours to judge. Ask the wrong person or miss an assumption and the conclusion will not hold.
You are not talking to one uniform tutor. Each role has its own position and its own information boundary: operations cares about capacity, sales about pricing, audit about evidence, the finance director about risk. None of them volunteers the decisive number, and asking is no guarantee of getting it right.
Marking does not reward saying the right buzzword. It checks the things that can be verified: whether your definitions are consistent, whether the arithmetic holds, whether the evidence points at a real source, and whether the advice is something the business could act on. You get point-by-point feedback plus the competency dimensions this attempt contributed to.
What one attempt looks like
- Pick a situation：Choose by topic or by level. Every course states its objectives, company background and expected duration. No assessment required first.
- Gather evidence：Ask in your own words. Pushing back, challenging and asking for the basis are all encouraged — that is how numbers are obtained at work.
- Do the modelling：Courses that need a model provide a downloadable workbook. You complete it and submit; both the result and the working are reviewed.
- Give a conclusion：Write advice for the business or for management: what you judge, on what basis, what the risks are and what happens next.
- Read the feedback：Point by point against the mark scheme — where a definition slipped, where evidence was thin — and the result feeds your competency profile.
Who it is for
Students preparing for management accounting examinations who can answer questions but freeze in front of a real brief: what you practise here is applying knowledge to a noisy situation.
People new to a finance role who need to get used to cross-functional conversations and evidence gathering: make the avoidable mistakes in a simulation first.
Teachers and training leads: mark scheme points, competency dimensions and learner trails are all inspectable, so courses can be used directly as assignments and debriefs.
Course catalogue
Layered by difficulty, from certificate-level judgement to strategic value-impact analysis. Open any course to see its objectives, company background, techniques involved and expected duration.
Operational
- TimeTech Digital Technology and Business Process Transformation
Student-led · From process diagnosis and the technology mix to the business case and change governance - TimeTech 2027 Workforce Planning
Student-led · From headcount gaps and talent acquisition through to performance-related pay and employee-relations governance - TimeTech Year-End Financial-Statement Close and Audit Communication
Student-led · From an out-of-balance trial balance to the three primary statements, the notes, and a closed audit-evidence loop - TimeTech Current Tax, Deferred Tax and Compliant Tax Planning
Student-led · From tax adjustments to deferred-tax working papers, period boundaries and a closed evidence loop - TimeTech Inventory Valuation, PPE Overhaul and Impairment
Student-led · From a FIFO system error to product-by-product NRV, revised depreciation and a closed evidence loop on equipment impairment - TimeTech T-100 Cost Diagnosis
Student-led · Five AI agents collaborating side by side - TimeTech 2025 Master Budget Preparation and Control
Student-led · From the master budget and cash scenarios through to flexible budgeting and behavioural governance - TimeTech Costing Methods and the ABC Pilot
Student-led · Reconcile absorption- and marginal-costing profit, and assess a two-product ABC pilot - TimeTech Short-term Commercial Decisions: A Comprehensive Simulation
Student-led · Six business AI agents collaborating on the special-order, make-or-buy and product-discontinuance decisions
Management
- TimeTech T-200 Critical Path and Resource Optimisation
Student-led · CPM, resource smoothing, crashing comparison and schedule governance - TimeTech T-200 Project Lifecycle Management
Student-led · From project charter and baseline control through to recovery, handover and benefits governance - TimeTech T-200 Stakeholder Management and Communication
Dynamic prioritisation · Factual boundaries · Communication governance · Conflict negotiation - TimeTech T-200 and ChipTech Acquisition Financing Decision
Student-led · From cost of capital, WACC and EBIT-EPS through to credit risk and shareholder dilution - TimeTech's Consolidated Financial Statements Following the Acquisition of ChipTech
Student-led · From acquisition-date accounting through to the three consolidated statements, NCI, deferred tax and a complete audit-evidence loop - TimeTech Project Financing and Working Capital Management
Student-led · From the true cost of long-term financing through to short-term liquidity, the cash conversion cycle and execution covenants - TimeTech Organisational Structure Design and Change Pilot
Student-led · Seven management roles collaborating to deliver the structural comparison, lightweight-matrix design and change roll-out - TimeTech Mutually Exclusive Production Investment Decision
Cross-functional evidence-gathering · Incremental cash flows · Conditional decision-making - TimeTech IPO Readiness, R&D Investment and Capital Allocation
E2 + P2 + F2 · Quality of Earnings · Working Capital · NPV · Financing · Dividend Policy - TimeTech Balanced Scorecard, Responsibility Centres and Transfer Pricing Governance
Student-led · From strategic cause-and-effect chains to value-aligned performance control - TimeTech T-200 Target Costing, Lean Production and Cost of Quality Optimisation
Student-led · Pre-production decision-making, from value engineering and constrained resources through to life-cycle costing
Strategic
- TimeTech T-200 Competitive Strategy and Business Model Pilot
Student-led · From customer segmentation and unit economics to the business model and exit gates - TimeTech's Diversification Strategy Choices, M&A Evaluation and Deal Gates
Student-led · From strategic-path comparison and valuation checks through to due diligence, negotiation and staged investment governance - TimeTech 2027-2029 Corporate-Level Strategy: Analysis and Choice
Student-led · From environmental scanning and capability diagnosis through to SAF-based choice and strategy execution - TimeTech Dividend Policy, Buybacks and Capital-Return Gates
Strategic-level simulation · From dividend theory and policy calculations through the cash bridge, buybacks, share instruments and listed-company governance - TimeTech Business Valuation and the Strategic Fundraising Gate
Strategic-level simulation · From FCFF, WACC and multi-method valuation through the equity bridge, sensitivity analysis and investment negotiation - TimeTech M&A Evaluation, Integration and Restructuring Gateways
Strategic-level simulation · From multi-method valuation and due diligence through to deal structuring, financing, synergy validation and exit governance - TimeTech Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Risk Governance
Strategic-level simulation · From risk identification and matrix assessment through to COSO controls, crisis response and board reporting - TimeTech Financial Risk Management and Hedging Strategy
Strategic-level simulation · From identifying five categories of financial risk to conditional hedging, liquidity and governance - TimeTech Internal Control and Corporate Governance Diagnostic
Strategic-level simulation · From evidence layering and COSO diagnosis through to the three lines of defence, remediation retesting and whistleblowing governance - TimeTech's Global Expansion, the EuroHealth Acquisition and Financing Strategy
E3 + P3 + F3 · Global Strategy · M&A Due Diligence · Risk Governance · EPS, Dilution and Capital Structure - TimeTech Finance Manager Integrated Professional Capability Challenge
Business Skills + Financial Skills + People Skills + Leadership Skills · Budget, customers, suppliers and team governance
Foundational
- TimeTech US GAAP Monthly Close: Three Accounting Treatment Checks
Finance BP pilot · Correcting deferred revenue, R&D expense and fixed-asset treatment in daily business transactions - TimeTech ASC 606 Revenue Recognition Across Three Contract Types
Foundational compliance · Hardware plus SaaS bundles, implementation services and customised project revenue - TimeTech Sales-Cycle Monthly Data Authenticity Review
Foundational compliance · sales cut-off, manual journals and exception reversals - TimeTech Sales-Process Key Control Walkthrough
Foundational compliance · discount approval, credit release, acceptance evidence, cut-off and exception review - TimeTech Q3 Federal Tax Bridge and Book-to-Tax Review
Foundational compliance · meals, entertainment, penalties, accruals, depreciation and prepayments - TimeTech Payroll Tax Review for New-Hire Compensation Packages
Foundational compliance · Sign-on bonuses, relocation allowances, reimbursements, training benefits and high-earner withholding boundaries - TimeTech Financial Risk Review of a Standard Sales Contract
Foundational compliance · Payment acceptance, SLA remedies, termination refunds and side-letter discount control - TimeTech Europe Subsidiary Setup Compliance Checklist
Foundational compliance · entity setup, bank KYC, VAT, payroll registration and evidence pack
Questions people ask
Do I need to take an assessment first?
No. There is a short baseline assessment if you want a suggested starting level, but it never gates course access.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Everything runs in the browser. Courses that need modelling provide a spreadsheet template you fill in with whatever tool you already use.
How long is a course?
Most take one to two hours; the expected duration is shown on every course page. You can leave part-way and your progress is kept.
Is marking human or automatic?
Automatic, but against mark scheme points written in advance. Feedback tells you which point each judgement came from, so it can be checked.