CNLC
Competitive Event Offerings
About Our Competitive Event Offerings
Objective Test Events
Complete a 100-question multiple-choice exam within 50 minutes
Accounting
Accounting involves the process of processing, managing, and analyzing financial records to ensure the profitable and efficient use of capital and available resources. Participants will learn about various financial statements, basic accounting terminology, and types of ownership.
Healthcare Administration
Healthcare Administration in the business world involves being able to manage and handle resources effectively to ensure the best possible usage, quality, and condition of the medicine that is being provided to communities. Competitors will gain these skills by learning about medical terminology, health insurance, legal & ethical issues, and more.
Personal Finance
Financial management is an important skill set in today’s society. This event will help competitors learn about real life skills related to managing personal finances, including credit and debit, saving and investing, and other financial principles necessary for decision making.
Business Law
Business Law provides members with the opportunity to gain knowledge about legal systems and implications in the business world. This event will assess the competitor’s knowledge of legal systems, contracts, property laws, employment laws and more.
International Business
Living in a highly globalized society today, trading of goods, services, and knowledge are a crucial part of business and everyday life. In this event, competitors will be given a problem encountered in the global arena, and they will need to apply their business knowledge into a macro level to provide solutions to the case.
Public Speaking
Discipline Over Talent: The Habits of Successful Leaders Deliver a speech exploring the role discipline plays in achieving personal and professional success. Examine how discipline shapes leadership, influences decision-making, and contributes to achieving long-term goals.
Why does discipline often have a greater impact on long-term success than talent alone?
Sports & Entertainment Management
Sports & Entertainment Management is a journey through the business processes behind professional sports and event management! It challenges students on their knowledge of business principles, management strategies, and marketing techniques specific to the sports and entertainment industries.
Introduction to Business Concepts
*Grade 9-10 ONLY
This event focuses on learning about the basic concepts and principles of the American business environment. Participants will be able to gain knowledge about consumerism, money management, banking, economic systems, and more.
Securities & Investments
Competitors will gain knowledge in personal finance, investing fundamentals, financial regulations, financial assets, and the stock market. Securities and Investments go in-depth in many topics in finance such as the terminology, taxation, investment funds, and derivatives. Participants will be expected to be able to define financial terminology and be able to assess the pros and cons of financial instruments.
Economics
This event will assess the competitor’s knowledge and proficiency on topics such as macroeconomics, market structures, basic economic principles, and more. From this event, competitors will be able to identify, understand, and apply economic principles to topics ranging from politics to the environment.
Organizational Leadership
Organizational Leadership provides members with the opportunity to demonstrate knowledge around competencies in the leadership of an organization. This event tests the competitor’s knowledge on leadership managerial roles, strategic leadership for managing cirses and change, traits of effective leaders, ethical leadership, and more.
Case Study Events
Complete in groups of 1, 2, or 3 in an event comprised of a 100 multiple-choice questions, and a 7 minute case presentation, including Q&A.
Business Management
Competitors will learn about problem encountered by managers in the following areas: human resource management, financial management, marketing management or information systems management. This event allows competitors to assume and understand the role of management.
Entrepreneurship
As owning and operating a business is a vital and difficult task, this event will help competitors gain real life knowledge about how to tackle problems that current entrepreneurs face on a daily basis. Additionally, this event will develop skills from different sectors of business, such as finance, and help the competitor apply it to establishing a business.
Marketing
In this event, competitors will learn about key skills in marketing such as selling and merchandising, promotion and advertising, and the legal, social, and ethical aspects in marketing. Equipped with these knowledge, competitors will be given a marketing problem, and they are expected to come up with a proper solution.
Roleplay’s not your thing? Check out these presentation events hosted at CNLC, where you prepare and present a solution for your given situation.
Hospitality & Event Management
This event helps competitors gain valuable skills pertaining to Human Resources Management, Customer Service, and Communication skills among many others. Additionally, competitors will have the opportunity to learn about many different types of hospitality markets and management functions.
Presentation Events
Financial Statement Analysis
Analyzing Costco’s Financial Performance: Insights for Long-Term Success
Costco Wholesale Corporation, one of the world's leading membership-based warehouse retailers, continues to operate in a rapidly evolving business environment shaped by changing consumer behavior, economic conditions, competition, and growth opportunities. Using Costco's fiscal year 2025 Annual Report and other publicly available financial information, analyze the company's financial performance and condition. Develop recommendations that support Costco's long-term financial success and strategic objectives.
How can financial analysis help organizations evaluate performance, identify opportunities, manage risk, and make informed business decisions?
Coding & Programming
Serving the Community: Nonprofit Volunteer Management
Nonprofit organizations rely on volunteers to support programs, events, and community initiatives. Effectively managing volunteer information, service opportunities, schedules, and participation can help organizations operate more efficiently and increase their impact.
Use your programming skills to develop a program that helps nonprofit organizations recruit, organize, and manage volunteers and community service activities. Your program may be a command-line application, desktop application, or interactive interface. Choose the platform that best demonstrates your programming skills.
Your solution should help nonprofit organizations coordinate volunteers, manage service opportunities, maintain records, and monitor participation while supporting the needs of both volunteers and organization leaders.
Business Plan
Prepare a pre-judged, formal business plan report and presentation for a new business venture that has not been in operation more than 12 months. The report will be no more than 17 pages. The first page (front cover) should include the name of the school, competitor names, country, name of the event, and school year (2026–27) on the cover. The second page must include a table of contents and each page must be numbered. Divider pages and appendices are optional and must be included in the page count. The report sequence must mirror the rating sheet.
Data Science & AI
Data Science & AI challenges members to demonstrate their understanding of data analysis, machine learning, and the principles of artificial intelligence through an objective test. This event introduces members to the role of data and AI in solving real-world problems and driving innovation across industries.