Angela Qin's Blog

So it’s three am, and my team has been working on a case for 12 hours. The trudge continues, but I’m taking a break to blog about our experiences.

I’m currently at the CMA BC Case Competition designed for 1st and 2nd year commerce students. And I realized how the topics I’ve learned in COMM101 all tie in together.

Some of the topics we touched on are

-Break Even analysis

-Overhead cost

-Fixed/Variable cost

-SWOT analysis

This case shows really how one discipline of business is not separated from all else.  When we look at human resource issues, we also need to look at the numbers which relates to accounting. Then when we look at profit and revenue we also need to look at management and how the company operates.

Update: Saturday night  and LOW on energy.

This experience has been amazing. Although we didn’t place (very close, judges told us!)  we learned so much and gained an interest in case competitions. There was a case review at the end of the day when the judges talked about general improvements.

One suggestion is very practical and I will be using it in future presentations. That is, to have Q&A slides prepared. Usually, presentations are limited by time and it’s hard to put down and explain all calculations. The Q&A slides kind of acts like appendixes so when the presentation is over and the judges want to know how we got to the numbers, we have something concrete we can pull up.