Systems and methods for investment decision support

摘要

A decision support computer system, according to various aspects of the present invention, is used by a plurality of users to learn principles of personal finance by competing. The system includes an engine for central processing; a network for communication between each user and the engine for central processing; an engine for identifying to a particular competition a subset of the plurality of users; an engine for modeling financial consequences of a respective series of decisions made by each user of the subset; a graphical user interface engine operative by each user for indicating a decision after associating values of an opportunity to portions of a financial statement; and an engine for recognizing a particular user of the subset as succeeding in the particular competition in response to determining that the particular user's decisions result in the accumulation of recurring passive income exceeding recurring expenses. Engine functions may be combined to reduce the number of independent engine implementations.