Entries for The CFO Junior Case Study Competition officially closed on March 31 with over 800 aspirants in 220 teams representing over 80 High Schools in all 9 provinces; with some top IEB, Cambridge and    State Schools vying for the bragging rights as the 2017 and maiden edition winners of ‘The CharterQuest Future CFOs and Business Leaders Award’ with a ZAR 50,000 Cash Prize!

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Valentine Nti, Project Director, said:  “We launched this competition to provide High Schools in South Africa with a platform to benchmark how well they are preparing our next generation of finance and business leaders for the rigors of higher studies and professional life. We are only too excited about the diversity of responses from some top private and public schools across the country: schools following different curricula with yet very similar expected outcomes around the 4 key modules tested in the competition -Mathematics, Accounting, Economics and Business Studies. The senior version of the competition for Universities around the world has also recorded some very stunning entries!”

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Stage 1 of the competition is well underway with the teams working on the AMANGO Group Plc Case Study which is confronted with a set of 6 business issues (opportunities, threats and weaknesses) that the teams must resolve for the Board of Directors! The Deadline for report submission is April 30th 2017 thereafter an Independent Examining Board will evaluate and shortlist the top 20 and then announce the final 6 teams who will be invited on an all-expenses paid trip to Johannesburg, South Africa; to compete/present before an audience and al panel of judges who will  determine the winners. This will be part of CFO South Africa’s Finance Indaba Africa 2017 Expo!!

You can follow the developments of The CFO Case Study Competition 2017 on our social media page @CFO_Casestudy on Twitter and ‘The CFO’ on Facebook. You can also watch the highlights of the 2016 edition on our Youtube channel, CQTV.