And that's the discounted price for "The 5 day MBA! – Developing the High Performance Manager".

Day three is "Business viability and financial strength". At the bottom of the list of the exciting and dynamic things they'll talk about is…

NB please bring a calculator to use on this day

I wonder what's worse: that they expect the attendees…

• won't be able to do a few sums in their head / on paper
• don't have a PDA to take notes / a calculator anyway
• who are giving them three and a half grand each will be happy not to be supplied with a £1 calculator with the company's logo on as part of the course fees