UI Students Make It To The Semi-Finals At CFO Global Case Study Competition

By Foyin Ejilola

A team of four University of Ibadan students have made it to the semi-finals at the 2021 edition of the annual CFO Global Case Study Competition, after emerging as one of the six top teams in the competition.

The Chief Financial Officer(CFO) Competition which is organised by CharterQuest Institute, South Africa, is an open entry and global multi-stage business strategy and  leadership-focused case study competition in which students around the world are challenged to prove that they can compete at the highest level by solving a set of complex and integrated finance, operational, strategic, and ethical problems that beset a real-world global business in the emerging markets.

The students, whose team is known as ‘Team Maverick Consulting’, are: Bakare Oluwafemi, Olaoye Omotooyosi, Omolade Boluwatife, who are students of Economics, and Anele Feziechi, the team leader, who is a student of Medicine. They competed against 590 teams from 87 universities all over the world.

For the semi-finals of the competition which will hold in Johannesburg, South Africa, in October 2021, the each of the top six teams will be delivering a 10-minute presentation and taking questions for 15 minutes from a Mock Board.

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