charterquest.co.za CFO Case Study Competition : The CharterQuest Institute

Organization : The CharterQuest Institute.
Competition Name : CFO Case Study Competition
Applicable For : Open to any young person
Competition Deadline : 31 March, 2017
Prize : ZAR3,000

Website : https://www.charterquest.co.za/
Rules :  https://www.southafricain.com/uploads/5039-Competition_Rules.pdf

CFO Case Study Competition :

1. Competition Rules :
** All Aspirants, partners and associates of The CFO Case Study Competition and its related contests (The CFO Junior), (The CFO Brand Ambassadors Award and The CFO Social Media Award) are inter-alia bound by the spirit and rules covered in the following sections of The Competition Rules

Related : University of the Western Cape Konica Minolta International Contest : www.southafricain.com/4984.html

Section 1: About the competition
Section 2: Criteria for participant & team eligibility
Section 3: Competition format
Section 4: Penalties and non compliance
Section 5: Intellectual property
Section 6: No prize transfer or substitution
Section 7: Consent and release
Section 8: Disclaimers
Section 9: Applicable laws and jurisdiction
Section 10: Judges decision and qualifying winners.

2. Criteria For Participant & Team Eligibility :
2.1 The Competition is open to any young person who aspires to be a top CFO or Global Business Leader subject to such person being at the time of entry :
** A university degree level student from anywhere in the world or pursuing a professional qualification such as CA (SA), CIMA, ACCA, CFA and willing to represent your academic Institution; OR

** An entry level professional holding a professional qualification such as above, employed and willing to represent your company in the competition; AND
** Not older than 25 years of age.

2.2 Any Aspirant can independently register a 3-person (maximum 4) team inclusive of a team leader and appoint a team mentor who can be a lecturer or his company supervisor/manager or CFO. All members of the team and the team mentor must be from the same educational Institution or company.

3. Competition Format & Rounds :
** The competition entails a 25-page in-depth analysis of a “hypothetical” African company facing real-life strategic issues that need to be addressed.

It is structured over 4 Rounds :
3.1 Round 1: Preliminaries (Case analysis & Reporting)
** A team of 3 (maximum 4) CFO & Business Leader Aspirants will over a period of 60 days analyse the case study, producing a report and recommendations to a mock Board of the case company.

** An independent and highly esteemed external panel of examiners then produce a shortlist of 12 reports/teams.
** These 12 teams are invited to submit a video link of their real 15 minutes powerpoint stage presentation from which the best 6 teams are then announced.

Round 2 : The People’S Choice (Public Votes – Broadcast & Social Media)
Part 1: Introducing their team, why they entered as well as the learning lessons.
Part 2: Setting out their hopes and dreams including how The CFO Case Study Competition has and could assist their future career.

** This also includes why the public should vote for their team. he videos then go live on broadcast and social media over a 60 day period for the public to have their say by voting for the best video. The team with the highest votes from the public will earn 2 points to their credit going into Round 3.

Round 3 : Semi Finals (Presentations)
** Each of the 6 winning teams are invited on an all expenses paid trip to Johannesburg, South Africa to deliver live, their 15 minutes presentation and take questions for 15 minutes from the mock Board comprised of an international panel of judges.
** The judges will then select the top 3 teams to compete at the finals the next day.

Section 4 : Penalties And Non Compliance
** The aforementioned rules have been designed to ensure fairness to all participating teams.
** The organisers retain the right to disqualify any team from the competition if the above rules are not respected or if a team does not maintain a proper standard of conduct in the professional and collegial spirit of the competition.