At that time, we are holding hand in hand, waiting for the final results as there are still three teams. The title of champion and participants are all among those three. Time stills goes slower than it ever did.

If you can choose an animal to represent your team, what would it be and why?

The whole story of participating in the CIMA GBC started from a winter evening, when officers of CIMA HK went to our school, the University of Hong Kong, for promotion in January. At that time the four of us were no more than just starters into college life; neither did we possess business knowledge to any level one could regard as “adequate”. Indeed, having two Science students in the team, the skill set of our group was quite diversified, making us less likely a perfect candidate for a business competition.

“Dear AMA course students, this is a golden opportunity not to be missed. You shall work your fingers to the bone; nevertheless, you will be able to reap the harvests at the end of the day!”

Our key legend: AMA – Advanced Diploma in Commerce (Management Accounting cum CIMA). Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman College (thereinafter TAR College) AMA students are expected to undertake four final outstanding CIMA external papers upon completion of the course.

Question 1: How would you describe the GBC experience to a potential participant?

Team Monash is proud to be representing Australia in the 2010 CIMA Global Business Challenge. For us, it has been an opportunity to bring together a team of high achieving individuals and team players with distinct but complementary skill sets in disciplines ranging from accounting and economics right through to science and law. Drawing on our four unique perspectives, we were able to build a holistic and balanced solution to the initial case, taking into account a wide range of quantitative and qualitative considerations, which is increasingly important in today’s complex world.

By the Scions Consultancy Firm, 2010 Philippines champions

The Global Business Challenge: Gratifying. Blissful. Convivial.

Emerging as the national champion in the GBC 2010 Filipino final was something that each team member of the Scions Consultancy Firm team wanted to experience over and over again. It was a moment that we all wanted to be captured in a snapshot.

Competing in a case challenge was a first for some of us. The structure of the 2010 CIMA Global Business Challenge was unlike many of the presentations we have had in school, and it was certainly an eye opener. However, taking part in this was an opportunity we did not let go. It offered the chance for us to be involved in management accounting at an international level and challenge ourselves.

Team BPGC WS, from BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus, comprises of 3 members from 4^th year – Rishikesh B G, Santosh P.C and Vidyashankar M.V. and one member from 2^nd year- Nishant Prasad. Rishikesh B G is studying a dual degree in B.E (Hons.) – Electronics and Electrical and Msc (Hons.) in Mathematics. Santosh is pursuing a B.E (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics and Msc (Hons.)  in Economics. Vidyashankar is studying B.E (Hons.) in computer Science and Msc(Hons.) in Economics. Lastly, Nishant is pursuing a B.E (Hons) in Chemical.

Communication skills are an important part of our university’s curriculum in addition to the typical subjects taught. The CIMA GBC presented us with an excellent opportunity to display our skills and abilities to a larger audience. Our mentor, Dr. Rawashdeh was also quite enthusiastic on encouraging us to participate and we happily obliged. Although the teams were made quite randomly, we had fun in participating in the competition. To cut to the chase, the entire team members needed a long deserved vacation and what better way to get it than participate in the GBC!!!!!!

Winning the CIMA GBC 2010 global finals and bringing Kudos to our motherland would be the ultimate for each of us, who incidentally decided to name our team KUDOS Consultants. It is not all who get to represent their country and do proud. Sri Lanka not being among the highest of stratums internationally, anything and everything that brings fame and attention to this Paradise Island on earth is colossal for all Sri Lankans. And to digest the fact that we have got an opportunity thanks to CIMA GBC 2010 is simply overwhelming.

The CIMA Global Business Challenge 2009 was literally the hallmark of our freshman year. Stretching from early March to late August, it was a lengthy process through which an unrivalled level of learning progress was achieved.

Our CIMA GBC Experience – Team Leader Channa Gunasekera recollects…

The team

One ordinary day during the lunch break at the canteen, my good friend Harinda walked up to me and told about CIMA GBC. I, “the competition lover” replied, “I’ll check whether we can achieve the deadline of this competition and then we’ll register.”

It was a routine reading of e-mails when I discovered the CIMA Global Business Challenge. I relished the opportunity of participating in another business competition.  I knew that many people involved with Enterprise at Sussex would be interested in this competition so I sent an e-mail to the organizers requesting an e-mail to be sent out on the Enterprise mailing list.

Our journey began…

“I have received an invite for an interesting competition from CIMA which I think we should go for”, said our mentor Mr. Raghu Anand as we walked into his office on a Monday morning. Looking at the invite a sense of excitement filled us as we looked at the countries participating and wondering the about the level of competition we would be pitted against. With the formation of our team after much deliberation my journey began with 3 days left for the 1st deadline

Why did I join GBC

Our team saw GBC as a good time to challenge ourselves against the best in our country as well as those from others. The competition was also interesting as cases involving management accounting are quite rare in our school and we saw it as an opportunity to learn more about CIMA, management accounting as well as the other skills needed to tackle such a real-life business problem.

My Journey to become the winner of my country

Thanks to CIMA Global Business Challenge 2009, the past several months of the year 2009 had been an unforgettable memory for me. Even it’s been a month or so since our last presentation, I still have in my mind every single word of our final speech, everything we had been through along our way to the stage of the Global Final in Singapore is just as refreshed as it was yesterday.

My name is Siobhan Coyle, I was a member of the inaugural GBC Ireland team and this is my blog.

Our journey to become All-Ireland Winners

Team member 1 - Steven Chan:

Struggling over the same project for half a year could be excruciating and tedious in most cases, but this time it is different. Back in February 2009, when we first submitted our registration form, we never have imagined that this slight possibility of winning would turn into reality! We are the GBC global final champion of 2009!

The first and foremost attribute of this competition is its versatility. The nature of competition itself, the pool of participants and panel of adjudication offers such variation!