Strategic Case Study March 2025 Masterclass

About Course
Progression from: 1.2 Business Management & Information Systems 2.2 Management Accounting, 2.4 Financial Management
Outline content: The module enables students to understand and apply tools and models to develop skills in strategic analysis, choice and implementation. Students will become competent in the use of management information to measure and monitor strategic performance. A comprehensive review will be undertaken of good governance practice, all developed within applicable ethical frameworks. Evaluating complex scenarios will be a feature of the module, based on complex data, and financial and stakeholder analysis including making recommendations.

Aim of the Module
The aim of this module is to enable students to understand and apply tools and models to develop skills in strategic analysis, choice and implementation.
Students will become competent in the use of management information to measure and monitor strategic performance. A comprehensive review will be undertaken of good governance practice, all developed within applicable ethical frameworks. Evaluating complex scenarios will be a feature of the module, based on complex data, financial and stakeholder analysis including making recommendations. Students will be expected to apply concepts, principles and theories from the knowledge and application levels of this
syllabus.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate professional skills: professional scepticism, professional and ethical judgement and communication, and discuss the impact of technology on an organisation’s performance.

Assessment approach: The examination will be a three-hour paper consisting of pre-seen and unseen information. The case studies may be based on a variety of organisational structures or operations. Students will be provided with background details (‘information given in advance’) of the organisations
in the respective case studies ahead of the examination. The information given in advance will not give specific indication of the eventual requirements of the case study. Students will be expected to familiarise themselves with the information provided about the organisations and the industry in which they operate by undertaking detailed analysis of that advance information and some additional analysis and research where necessary. Students will be required to answer questions relating to the final case studies during the examination.

Syllabus Weighting
Questions will be crafted based on the syllabus weighting grid covering the following broad areas: strategic analysis (20%),
strategic choice (15%),
strategy in action (25%),
financial objectives and strategies (20%) and
corporate governance (20%).