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CIMA MCS past questions by sitting
Every sub-task from recent Management Case Study pre-seens, summarised in our own words and sorted by core activity. One sitting at a time, with the number of matching sub-tasks on each.
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May & Aug 2025 · Trimayr: showing 15 of 48 sub-tasks.
May & Aug 2025 · Trimayr
CIMA's post-exam materials for May & Aug 2025Hair salons · 15 sub-tasks shown
- V1 · Task 1(a)Core activity A: Adding value
Whether salons should raise prices to recover higher apprentice wages.
- V1 · Task 1(b)Core activity E: Stakeholders
Whether raising new apprentices' pay on its own could cause conflict in salons.
- V1 · Task 2(a)Core activity B: Implementing decisions
Skills needed by the manager of a recruitment campaign project.
- V1 · Task 2(b)Core activity A: Adding value
Difficulties forecasting cash flows for the NPV of a recruitment campaign.
- V1 · Task 3(a)Core activity C: Performance and costs
Bringing TQM ideas into apprentice training and induction.
- V1 · Task 3(b)Core activity D: Measuring performance
Accounting for creating training materials and for apprentices' training time.
- V1 · Task 4(a)Core activity C: Performance and costs
Product, reputation and operational risks of an online induction course, with responses.
- V1 · Task 4(b)Core activity E: Stakeholders
Positive integrated report disclosures on intellectual, human and social capital for the course.
- V2 · Task 1(a)Core activity A: Adding value
How selling off salons affects defining value and capturing residual value in the business model.
- V2 · Task 1(b)Core activity C: Performance and costs
What it means that owned salons often improve once they are franchised.
- V2 · Task 2(a)Core activity D: Measuring performance
Approach to benchmarking the performance of divested salons.
- V2 · Task 2(b)Core activity A: Adding value
Challenges for new franchisees in setting profit-maximising prices.
- V2 · Task 3(a)Core activity E: Stakeholders
Issues likely to come up when negotiating the sale price of salons.
- V2 · Task 3(b)Core activity D: Measuring performance
Limitations of a ROCE calculation for negotiating salon sale prices.
- V2 · Task 4(a)Core activity C: Performance and costs
Reputation and contractual risks of selling salons as going concerns.