Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

Learn the key role that finance plays in an organisation, and how and why technologies and resources used to manage the finance functioning.

Learning Objectives:

• Role of the finance function
• Technology in a digital world
• Data and information in a digital world
• Shape and structure of the finance function
• Finance interacting with the organisation

Know the techniques how budgets are prepared and implemented across the organisation to ensure sound short term decision making, against a backdrop of risk and uncertainty.

Learning Objectives:

• Cost Accounting for decision and control
• Budgeting and budgetary control
• Short term commercial decision making
• Risk and uncertainty in the short term

Know all about financial reporting and tools, including how to distinguish between types of taxes, calculate corporation taxes and issues affecting taxation.

Learning Objectives:

• Regulatory environment of financial reporting
• Financial statements
• Principles of taxation
• Managing cash and working capital

At the Operational level, candidates simulate the role of an entry-level finance professional, using capstone case Study examination to showcase their acquired knowledge, techniques, skills, and mindset for this position.

Learn how different styles of leadership can be used to improve the performance of individuals to achieve organisational goals and how to use performance management concepts and techniques to implement effective strategies.

Learning Objectives:

• Business models and value creation
• Managing people performance
• Managing projects

Learn how to use cost management, quality and process management and value management to provide organisations with cost advantage. Also, acquire the knowledge of the criteria, process and techniques that are used to decide which projects to undertake and how to analyse risks and uncertainties especially in capital investment.

Learning Objectives:

• Managing the costs of creating value
• Capital investment decision making
• Managing and controlling the performance of organisational units
• Risk and control

Learn all about the sources and types of funds and how much they cost, including the key financial reporting standards, the International Integrated Reporting Framework and its components, and how to conduct analyses of financial statements and their limitations.

Learning Objectives:

• Financing capital projects
• Financial reporting standards
• Group accounts
• Integrated reporting
• Analysing financial statements

The role simulated is that of a finance manager in the Management level. This case study examination provides a simulated context which allows candidates to demonstrate the acquired knowledge, skills, techniques and the mindset required for that role.

Get in-depth knowledge of the foundation of strategic management and an understanding of the dynamics of the organisational ecosystem and how it affects the strategy of the organisation. Also, know how strategy is implemented, how implementation objectives are achieved and how change is managed.

Learning Objectives:

• The Strategy process
• Analysing the organisational ecosystem
• Generating strategic options
• Making strategic choices
• Strategic control
• Digital strategy

Learn an effective way to identify, evaluate and manage enterprise risks. Know from where the strategic risks emanate from, how to evaluate them and understand how oversight of these risks is critical to the governance of the organisation and ways to manage them.

Learning Objectives:

• Enterprise risk
• Strategic risk
• Internal controls
• Cyber risk

Dive into the subject to learn the different strategic financial objectives and get the details of where and how they access these funds at the right time, in the right quantities and at the right cost. Plus, know all about the sources of financial risk, how to evaluate and manage financial risk appropriately, and techniques used in business valuation.

Learning Objectives:

• Financial policy decisions
• Sources of long term funds
• Financial risks
• Business valuation

The role that is simulated in the strategic level is of the senior finance manager. The Case Study Examination provides a simulated context which allows learners to attain the required knowledge, skills, techniques and mindset for that role.