MBA Case Competitions
Valuable Experience for Your Resume & Career
Why Enter MBA Case Competitions?
MBA case competitions are a great way to add some extracurricular experience to your resume and to demonstrate passion and interest in a certain field. CFI’s Financial Modeling Competition, for example, is the perfect way to get some first-hand experience building a financial model from a case study and use it to value a business. To learn more, visit https://financialmodeling.org/
Top Reasons to Enter MBA Case Competitions
As an MBA student, it’s important to add as much experience and specialization to your resume as possible, and case competitions are one of the best ways to do this.
Top reasons to enter MBA Case Competitions:
- Show focus and specialization on your resume
- Demonstrate commitment to extra-curricular activities
- Win cash prizes
- Add bragging rights to your resume
- Travel to a new city (some competitions)
- Learn new skills
CFI Financial Modeling Case Competition
CFI’s financial modeling competition is open to MBA students around the world who want to compete to be the best at building a financial model to value a company. By using a Private Equity case study, the competition gives contestants a Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM) that they will use to analyze a company’s financial information and build a forecast about how it will perform in the future. That model will then form the basis for whether or not they recommend investing in the company, and if so, at what price.
Submission requirements include a fully completed financial model, a pitchbook outlining the recommendations, and a short video presenting the final materials.
To learn more, visit https://financialmodeling.org/
Cash Prizes
Cash prizes in the competition include $10,000 to be shared among the top three finishing contestants:
- $7,000 1st place
- $2,000 2nd place
- $1,000 3rd place
Additional Resources
Thank you for reading this guide to MBA case competitions and why you should enter them to boost your resume. To make sure you’re well prepared for competition day, these additional CFI resources will be useful:
Additional Resources
CFI is a global provider of financial modeling courses and of the FMVA Certification. CFI’s mission is to help all professionals improve their technical skills. If you are a student or looking for a career change, the CFI website has many free resources to help you jumpstart your Career in Finance. If you are seeking to improve your technical skills, check out some of our most popular courses. Below are some additional resources for you to further explore:
The Financial Modeling Certification
Analyst Certification FMVA® Program
CFI is a global provider of financial modeling courses and of the FMVA Certification. CFI’s mission is to help all professionals improve their technical skills. If you are a student or looking for a career change, the CFI website has many free resources to help you jumpstart your Career in Finance. If you are seeking to improve your technical skills, check out some of our most popular courses. Below are some additional resources for you to further explore:
The Financial Modeling Certification
Below is a break down of subject weightings in the FMVA® financial analyst program. As you can see there is a heavy focus on financial modeling, finance, Excel, business valuation, budgeting/forecasting, PowerPoint presentations, accounting and business strategy.
A well rounded financial analyst possesses all of the above skills!
Additional Questions & Answers
CFI is the global institution behind the financial modeling and valuation analyst FMVA® Designation. CFI is on a mission to enable anyone to be a great financial analyst and have a great career path. In order to help you advance your career, CFI has compiled many resources to assist you along the path.
In order to become a great financial analyst, here are some more questions and answers for you to discover:
- What is Financial Modeling?
- How Do You Build a DCF Model?
- What is Sensitivity Analysis?
- How Do You Value a Business?
