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Wuudbreak pre-seen analysis: CIMA MCS, November 2026 and February 2027
This free case map covers the Wuudbreak pre-seen for the CIMA Management Case Study, the pre-seen used for the November 2026 and February 2027 exams. The map above links every fact in the 25-page pre-seen to the arguments you can make in the exam. This is Finntutors' independent analysis; the pre-seen itself is published by CIMA.
The company
Wuudbreak owns and runs nine holiday parks in Norrland, its home country. Each park sits in woodland next to a lake and offers upmarket activity holidays for adults and children.
The first park was built in 1993, and Wuudbreak is the only provider of this style of holiday park in Norrland. Its currency is the N$ and it reports under IFRS.
Its main rival in the pre-seen is Vannpark, which runs 11 caravan parks on coastal sites.
Your role in the exam
You are a financial manager at head office, working mainly on management accounting. You report to Adam Chee, the Senior Financial Manager, who reports to the Finance Director.
Key numbers: Year to 30 September 2026
- Revenue
- N$843.7m, up 4.53%
- Gross profit
- N$601.9m, up 8.06%, a 71.3% margin, while cost of sales fell
- Occupancy
- 94%, so there is little room to grow by filling empty apartments
- Repeat guests
- 71% have stayed before
- Profit for the year
- N$233.9m, with N$72.7m paid in dividends
- Assets
- Property, plant and equipment of N$3,014.6m out of N$3,418.1m
- Loans
- N$1,003.8m, against Vannpark's N$550.0m
- Working capital
- Payables of N$334.1m against receivables of N$17.9m, because guests pay when they book
- Carbon
- 5.6 kgCO2e per sleeper night, down from 9.8, with a 5.2 target
- Vannpark
- Revenue N$776.2m and administrative expenses of N$73.0m, against Wuudbreak's N$234.0m
The 10 arguments the map walks you through
- How to read this pre-seen
- Who is buying, and what else they could buy
- What a guest actually gets
- How a park turns a guest into revenue
- Reading the accounts
- Why the occupancy rate stays at 94%
- Who runs it, and where they will collide
- The forest is the asset
- Wuudbreak against Vannpark
- The business model, since the page is a picture