CIMA Global Business Challenge Win for UCC
16.06.2011
UCC has won the Irish final of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Global Business Challenge (GBC) for the second year running and now go on to represent Ireland at the global finals in Chengdu, China next month. The UCC team of David White, Gary O’Mahony (both Accounting IV), Robert Sweeney (Finance III) and Hazel Grimes (Accounting II) will compete against seventeen other international teams for the title of Global Champions. Dr Margaret Healy, Department of Accounting, Finance & Information Systems, is the students’ academic mentor. The team beat off stiff competition from teams from eleven other colleges and business schools around Ireland to emerge winners.

The CIMA GBC 2011, which is being held in partnership with Barclays and local sponsors BPP, is an international business management competition designed to bring out the best in potential business leaders among young people. The competition is designed to test the business management skills of participants. Teams were initially provided with a case study describing CeeCee, a fictional fashion retailer. Teams are required to analyse this in advance and conduct research into the general business context in which the case is set. On the day of the competition teams respond to a number of previously unseen events. Within a three-hour timeframe, they are expected to assimilate the additional information, prepare and deliver a 20 minute presentation of their analysis and recommendations and participate in a question and answer session with the adjudicating panel.

The UCC team represent Ireland at the global finals in Chengdu, China, July 23rd/24th where they will compete against 17 winning teams including Australia, China, Malaysia, Russia, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa and the UK.

Picture: David Whyte (back), Hazel Grimes, Robert Sweeney, Gary O’Mahony (front).

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