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1. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

We seek to highlight the centrality of teamwork, creativity, presentation skills, business acumen as well as

the value of taking a holistic and strategic approach to management. The CharterQuest Competency
Framework for grooming financially qualified business leaders will guide the judges’ evaluation of the
content of your presentation as below:

PROBLEM SOLVING Finance & Diversity, Ethics & Presentation Innovation Decisiveness Total
ACUMEN Technical Business, People (incl. Question & & Leadership
Entreprene & Answers) Integration
urial
Strategic analysis 5% 10% 15%
(Prioritisation & focus)
Strategic choice (Impact 10% 10% 10% 10% 5% 45%
& options evaluation)
Strategic 5% 10% 5% 20% 40%
implementation
(Recommendation &
Actions)
TOTAL 15% 20% 15% 20% 10% 20% 100%

2. THE REQUIREMENT

The Board had thankfully received your initial report (as submitted on March 31, 2017) and your
presentation at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Assume that today is March 31, 2018 and

that the AMANGO group went on to publish its 2017 audited annual financials in February 2018
(Appendix 2).

An emergency meeting of the Board will take place in 3 hours. Your team has to prioritise and evaluate
the strategic developments, including ethical issues affecting the group since then -and provide strategic
advice. You are accordingly, required to produce and present such a report directly to the Board.

Note:
The next pages (pages 3-4) provide the background to the AMANGO group case study, before delving
into the new scenario and issues (pages 5-11) you have been tasked to resolve. Unless otherwise

updated by the new facts that now follow, all facts previously availed about the AMANGO Group Plc
remain applicable. Please note that the five issues to be resolved are in many ways as interconnected as
they are separate. You have a duty to independently define what the problem or key board decision

The CFO Case Study Competition Pack (Extended scenario)
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