This pre-seen material is for the May and August 2023 sittings.

CIMA has released the OCS pre-seen material. To get your copy of the pre-seen, check out my Home page. The preseen company is Tracs Europe is an unquoted company, specialising in the manufacture and sale of agricultural tractors. Tracs Europe is a wholly owned subsidiary of AgRi and is based in Teeland, a fictitious country in Europe.

NOW is an excellent time to kickstart your CIMA case study preparation.

My podcast also featured a few tidbits from the OCS pre-seen material for May and August 2023 sittings. Subscribe and listen to the episode from the links below:

Various analyses will aid you in understanding and decoding pre-seen jargons:

1. Pre-seen analysis – An in-depth analysis of the pre-seen material. We look at our pre-seen company in detail. We learn about the company background, structure and financial standing.
2. Strategic analysis – Hot on the heels of a pre-seen analysis is to do a strategic analysis to help us with perspective. We need to know where the company has been, where it is now and where it is headed.
3. Top 10 likely issues – Based on what has been mentioned (and sometimes, not mentioned) on the pre-seen material, we can gather clues to risks, issues, and events that may affect our fictitious company.
4. Industry analysis – This puts our pre-seen company in the context of the real world. We look at some real-life examples of companies in the same industry. We highlight problems and circumstances that have made the news, and find out how these companies have dealt with them.

Astranti has dedicated a page on all things OCS and more. The above analyses are delivered in both written and video formats. If you are still unsure, check out the sample videos and documents on their website, and then take it from there.

Good luck, student!