National business game held at Business School
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
(ICAEW) is challenging schools to enter its national business game
and the Humberside heat of the Business, Accounting and Skills
Education (BASE) competition will take place on Tuesday 9 February
at Hull University Business School.
Six local schools have already signed up for the competition
which will so far see John Leggott College, Withernsea High School,
Wilberforce College, Hymers, the Read School and Hull Collegiate go
head to head in a fiscal battle royal.
Aimed at 16-18 year olds, BASE links schools, students and
employers together in a bid to not only increase awareness of a
career in accountancy and finance, but to develop desirable skills
in the future workforce.
Assuming the role of chartered accountants, the students will
have just two hours to analyse, discuss and decided on the next
business steps of fictional organisations before presenting their
ideas to a panel of business professionals.
An exhibition zone will also give teams the chance to research
the career and talk to trainee or qualified ACAs. With support from
the hosts, Hull University Business School, and other local firms,
the event aims to be a real success.
Graeme Reid, lecturer in Accounting and
Finance at the school and President, Humberside & District
Society of Chartered Accountants, said:
'Students will be truly engaged, challenged
and empowered during the course of the day. This competition
requires participants to work as a team to find solutions to real
business issues. Not only will the students gain a valuable insight
into what it means to be a chartered accountant, but they will also
take away transferable skills required in their future
careers.'
More than twenty regional heats are taking
place across the UK throughout February and March. The winners of
each heat will go on to the national final which takes place in
Birmingham on 1st July 2010.
Date added: 4 February 2010