CIMA SCS pre-seen · Nov 2026 – Feb 2027
Vennlisk Pre-seen: what to prepare for CIMA SCS
Your role: Senior finance manager reporting to the board on special projects and strategy
A trusted adviser to the board. Lead with the strategic consequence and a clear recommendation where one is asked for.
- Pre-seen released
- 2 Oct 2026
- Exams from
- 18 Nov 2026
- Last exam day
- 19 Feb 2027
- First results
- 14 Jan 2027
- Access until
- 5 Mar 2027
This pre-seen is used for two exam windows. Check your own booking and dates with CIMA.
The business in brief
A listed provider of outsourced inbound call-centre services. Key themes are the threat and opportunity of AI and automation, staff training and retention, the board and principal risks, competitors' results, share price history and sustainability.
Our own summary to help you plan. Download the official pre-seen from your AICPA-CIMA account.
- Expect tasks on
- Strategy and risk: strategic options and choices, digital and AI strategy, enterprise and cyber risk, financing and valuation, and stakeholder and ethical issues.
A task set in Vennlisk
The task · 22 marks · 30 minutes
A betting company wants our agents
Email from the Chief Commercial Officer, December 2026: "An online betting company has offered us a three-year contract for its customer service: £14m of revenue a year at a 26% contribution margin, with £1.2m of set-up costs. That's better than most of our…
Write a paper for the board evaluating the proposed contract and recommending whether Vennlisk should accept it.
One of 65 tasks in our question bank set in Vennlisk.
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: name what the board should decide, and what it means for the agents on the phones.
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
- 17
- Full mocks
- 5
- Half and section mocks
- 12
Topics covered
- Integrated task
- Business valuation
- Digital strategy
- Financial policy decisions
- Generating strategic options
- Making strategic choices
- Sources of long-term funds
- Strategic risk
- The strategy process
- Analysing the strategic environment
- Cyber risk
- Enterprise risk
- and 5 more topics
Every task is set in Vennlisk. Full mocks come with Pass Plus; how many depends on the question bank for this pre-seen.
Questions about Vennlisk
What is the Vennlisk pre-seen?
Vennlisk is the pre-seen company for the CIMA Strategic Case Study (SCS), Nov 2026 – Feb 2027. A listed provider of outsourced inbound call-centre services. Key themes are the threat and opportunity of AI and automation, staff training and retention, the board and principal risks, competitors' results, share price history and sustainability. This is our own summary; download the official pre-seen from your AICPA-CIMA account.
What role do I play in the Vennlisk case study?
You write as Senior finance manager reporting to the board on special projects and strategy. A trusted adviser to the board. Lead with the strategic consequence and a clear recommendation where one is asked for.
How can I practise for the Vennlisk case study?
Eighty Marks has 65 timed practice tasks set in Vennlisk, covering topics such as integrated task, business valuation, digital strategy, financial policy decisions, generating strategic options, 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 Vennlisk exam?
The Nov 2026 – Feb 2027 exam windows start on 18 November 2026 and end on 19 February 2027. Check your own booking with CIMA.
Practise in Vennlisk 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.