ACG Cup

Click here for the video presentation given by Ken Jones of Boathouse Capital which included presentation skills (oral & written), valuation skills, private company financial metrics, and common mistakes.

Click here for the video presentation given by a regional investment banking firm, Griffin Financial Group as an example of a well structured and successfully delivered presentation. The case used was not a prior or current ACG cup case.

Presentation files to download
Workshop Presentation (Ken Jones)
Investment Banking Case Presentation (John Lee)

About the ACG Philadelphia Cup

The Association for Corporate Growth is pleased to present the 7th annual ACG Philadelphia Cup.

The Philadelphia Cup is a highly realistic private equity/investment banking case study contest that will present a total of up to $25,000 in awards to MBA students representing some of the top MBA programs in the greater Philadelphia area.

Competing teams will be drawn from leading Philadelphia business schools. Click here for a complete list of schools and contacts.

The contest, which is open exclusively to MBA and MS Finance students attending the universities, will start with Round One competitions to be held on-campus at each school. Each team will analyze and present their solutions and recommendations to a complex business case that requires a combination of corporate strategy, finance and valuation skills.

ACG Philadelphia has created an ACG Philadelphia Cup University Handbook designed to be a comprehensive resource for school administrators, faculty and student.

For further details, please view the competition timeline and important dates provided below.

The top team from each school's ROUND 1 competition will advance to the "ACG Philadelphia Cup" FINALs to be held Thursday April 11, 2013 at KPMG's Center City office.

ACG Philadelphia Cup Timeline

Beginning mid-December: Registration/School Team Sign-up
The competition is open to all graduate school business students and MS finance degrees at participating universities, whether they are full-time, part-time or executive MBAs.

January: Webinars for Students
ACG holds webinars that will be recorded and available for registered students to view in the Merrill DataSite. Once registered students will automatically receive access to these webinars. In piror years the webinar topics have included: Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Leveraged Buyouts and Merger Consequences Analysis.

February 11: ACG will host a workshop for registered teams on Mastering a Winning Presentation. Time/Location: 6 - 7:30 PM at the offices of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, One Logan Square, Ste. 2000, Philadelphia, PA 19103-6996

Topics to be covered include: presentation skills (oral & written), valuation skills, private company financial metrics, and common mistakes, as well as time for Q&A. We will also have a regional investment banking firm doing a pitch as an example of a well structured and successfully delivered presentation.

Mid-February - Mid-March: Release of Case Study & ROUND 1 (On-Campus) Competition
Each team will analyze and present their recommendations and supporting rationale for a complex investment case that requires corporate strategy, finance and valuation skills.

ACG will utilize a Virtual Data Room for the release of the case. All registered team members will receive log in and password information to the Merrill DataSite. Teams will have 2 weeks to prepare for the case in advance of ROUND 1.

School representatives will communicate with your team, as necessary, throughout this process and be available to answer questions (other than related to the case itself).

April 11, 2013. Finals
Teams will compete head-to-head with the winners from the other regional MBA schools for a total of $25,000 in prize money, which will be allocated among the final round teams as determined by the judges in their sole discretion. Prize money will be awarded based on each team’s ranking and not all teams will be eligible to receive a monetary award.

Sponsoring firm KPMG will be the host site for Finals. Presentations have traditionally been held in the late afternoon. Further details to be circulated to participating teams.

TEAM REGISTRATION

Registration for the 2013 ACG Philadelphia Cup is now open
All participating schools should use this link to register.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Team registration is closed for Drexel and Temple

Each team member is responsible for registering him/herself. There is no formal registration deadline. Teams should be formed and finalized in advance of ROUND 1. Team changes (additions/deletions) should be sent to the designated University Contact. It is not necessary for ACG to be made aware of team changes. Teams must not change between ROUND 1 and the FINAL ROUND.

ACG Philadelphia Cup - Drexel University Wins Grand Prize

ACG Philadelphia presented $35,000 in awards to eight MBA teams at the 6th annual ACG Cup competition, sponsored by KPMG LLP on April 19, 2012.

The Drexel University's LeBow College of Business team (pictured to the right) is the Grand Prize winner of the 212 ACG Cup. The team including Mengsu Liao, Jie Wang, Ben Wuebbenhorst, Yan Zhou, Jason Zola are pictured with John Lee with Griffin Financial and ACG Philadelphia's President, Ken Jones with Boathouse Capital and the ACG Cup Co-Chair and Mike McAleer with KPMG and the ACG Cup Co-Chair. The student team received a total award of $12,500 and the Philadelphia Cup Trophy, which the school can proudly display for the second year in a row.

The Wharton School of the Univeristy of Pennsylvania came in a close second and will receive $10,000, and Temple University's Fox School of Business placed third winning $5,500. The following other schools placed as finalists and each team received $1,500: LaSalle University, Penn State University, Saint Joseph's University, University of Delaware, and Villanova University.

If you were unable to join us for the Mastering a Winning Presentation workshop, please access the videos here.

Thank you to the ACG Cup Sponsor

Thank you to the
ACG Cup Sponsor