CIMA OCS pre-seen · Nov 2026 – Feb 2027
Tendra Tents Pre-seen: what to prepare for CIMA OCS
Your role: Finance Officer in the finance department
Practical and clear. Explain figures, processes and controls to managers who aren't accountants.
- Pre-seen released
- 18 Sep 2026
- Exams from
- 4 Nov 2026
- Last exam day
- 5 Feb 2027
- First results
- 7 Jan 2027
- Access until
- 19 Feb 2027
This pre-seen is used for two exam windows. Check your own booking and dates with CIMA.
The business in brief
A privately owned tent maker founded by three friends who still run it, with an eco-friendly brand. It sells three tent ranges online across Europe and through retailers in its home market, from a single production site. The pre-seen includes recent financial results, a budget for the coming year and the local tax regime.
Our own summary to help you plan. Download the official pre-seen from your AICPA-CIMA account.
- Expect tasks on
- Day-to-day finance: costing and variances, budgets, working capital, tax, financial statements, and how technology changes the finance function.
A task set in Tendra Tents
The task · 12 marks · 18 minutes
A custom-colour order from a retailer
Email from Dan Okafor, Retail Account Manager: "One of our home-market retailers wants 400 tents in its own colourway for a spring store event, at £85 per tent. That's well below our usual trade price. Production has costed it below. Is it worth doing?"…
Reply to Dan, advising whether the order should be accepted on financial grounds and what else he should consider before agreeing to it.
One of 65 tasks in our question bank set in Tendra Tents.
Illustrative example
92 / 150
PASS LINE 80 · ABOVE
- TechnicalStrong: figures used and explained
- BusinessGood: tied to the company, one gap
- PeopleNeeds work: impact on people missing
- LeadershipGood: clear recommendation
The pass line: 80 of 150
Fix first: say what your advice means for the production team, and check it fits the eco-friendly brand.
An invented answer to this task, marked to show what you get back. Not a real student's, and not a CIMA mark.
Practise this pre-seen
- Timed tasks
- 65
- Topics
- 16
- Full mocks
- 5
- Half and section mocks
- 12
Topics covered
- Integrated task
- Budgeting and control
- Cost accounting for decision and control
- Data and information in a digital world
- Finance interacting with the organisation
- Financial statements
- Regulatory environment and corporate governance
- Risk and uncertainty in the short term
- Role of the finance function
- Shape and structure of the finance function
- Short-term commercial decision-making
- Technology in a digital world
- and 4 more topics
Every task is set in Tendra Tents. Full mocks come with Pass Plus; how many depends on the question bank for this pre-seen.
Questions about Tendra Tents
What is the Tendra Tents pre-seen?
Tendra Tents is the pre-seen company for the CIMA Operational Case Study (OCS), Nov 2026 – Feb 2027. A privately owned tent maker founded by three friends who still run it, with an eco-friendly brand. It sells three tent ranges online across Europe and through retailers in its home market, from a single production site. The pre-seen includes recent financial results, a budget for the coming year and the local tax regime. This is our own summary; download the official pre-seen from your AICPA-CIMA account.
What role do I play in the Tendra Tents case study?
You write as Finance Officer in the finance department. Practical and clear. Explain figures, processes and controls to managers who aren't accountants.
How can I practise for the Tendra Tents case study?
Eighty Marks has 65 timed practice tasks set in Tendra Tents, covering topics such as integrated task, budgeting and control, cost accounting for decision and control, data and information in a digital world, finance interacting with the organisation, and 5 full mocks, 4 half mocks, 8 section practice papers. Each answer is marked by AI in about a minute on the four competencies.
When is the Tendra Tents exam?
The Nov 2026 – Feb 2027 exam windows start on 4 November 2026 and end on 5 February 2027. Check your own booking with CIMA.
Practise in Tendra Tents today
Timed tasks set in this pre-seen, marked in about a minute on the four competencies, the skills markers look for, with your own answer rewritten to the next level up. Try one task free.
One task free. No card needed. AI marks are a guide to help you improve. They are not CIMA marks and not a prediction of your result.