CIMA® (US) Coaching Classes in Kolkata
- Training led by Rank holder Instructors having 20+ Years of Corporate Experience
- Registered Prep Provider of CIMA
- Skill Based training with 100% Placement Assistance
- CIMA Coaching Classes with 89% past success rate
- 1000+ hours of training, including Exam and Interview Preparations
- Detailed Notes and Presentations for each topic and each subject
- 3 Mock Tests for each Exam with detailed evaluation and feedback
- Unlimited doubt sessions over Phone call or Whatsapp
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Course Overview
Established in 1919, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) is the world’s largest and leading professional body of management accountants with more than 250,000 members and students working in around 180 countries.
CIMA helps individuals to succeed by harnessing the knowledge of both MBA and CA. In short, CIMA is the best of both worlds – Management and Accounting.
In 2017, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) & CIMA came together to forge a powerful international alliance that promotes accounting and finance in every corner of the world.CIMA helps individuals to succeed by harnessing the knowledge of both MBA and CA. In short, CIMA is the best of both worlds – Management and Accounting.
In 2017, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) & CIMA came together to forge a powerful international alliance that promotes accounting and finance in every corner of the world.
Essential Features
Placement Assistance
We provide 100% placement assistance to our CPA students. We’ve a track record of 4,500+ placements in Accounting & Finance Profiles
Exhaustive Prep Material
With 250+ Hours of Content per part including HOCK International Study Material and several mock tests, no other preparation is required apart from our study material
Reduced Exam Registration Fees
Candidate’s registration and exam fees (Payable to CIMA) reduces significantly if he/she is a student of TWSS.
Official Prep Provider
We’re an official Exam Prep Provider (EPP) of CIMA Global institute for both online and offline training.
Training By Rankholders
Our trainers are CA, CIMA and CPA Rankholders with more than a decade of experience in training and mentoring the students of CPA course.
Pass Assurance
If you commit to us, we make sure to be with you throughout all the failures or doubts whenever they occur, until you clear exams
High Passing Rate
Due to our quality of Trainers and study material, we have been able to maintain a high passing rate of more than 89% in our CIMA Coaching
LMS + App Access
Our curriculum is available on demand on our LMS which can be accessed through any computer or our apps available on both Android and iOS platforms
CIMA Eligibility
Basic Eligibility to start CIMA qualification is 16 years of Age. But it is meant for:
- Meant for an Undergraduate Student wanting to make career in Management and/or Finance
- Meant for a Graduate wanting to make a career or grow Professionally in the field of Management and/or Finance
- Meant for Post Graduates (MBA, Mcoms) who struggle to grow Professionally due to a lack of a Professional Qualiification
- Meant for CAs who want to grow in MNCs and/or looking for making a career globally
- Meant for Candidates who want to do a professional qualification at their own pace
- Meant for any stream graduates or post graduates to start their career in Finance and/or Accounting
- Meant for candidates who don't want to make their career in Auditing or Taxation
- Meant for Experienced Professionals who lack a professional qualification
- Meant for anyone (irrespective of background) who is looking for career in Accounting, Finance or Management areas in India and/or Globally
CIMA® Curriculum
- Leadership Skills: You will learn how to make decision & lead the business through, middle & upper level management.
- Global Network & Scope: Once you earn the CGMA degree, you get opportunities to work across 180+ countries worldwide.
- Preferred choice for recruiters: Top Management and Accounting firms globally prefer people holding CGMA for consulting profiles.
- Evergreen Skills: In CGMA you will develop the skills which humans can never be obsolete, like data backed decision making for the business.
Certification Level (4 Papers): 200 Hours Training + 40 Hours Revision & Practice
Overview: The fundamentals of business models and how new business and operating models can be developed to improve the performance of organisations. 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 strategies effectively and efficiently. Use of project management concepts and techniques useful in implementing strategies.
Learning Objectives:
- Business models and value creation
- Managing people performance
- Managing projects
- Overview: Why costing is done and what it is used for, including appropriate costing methods and techniques and where digital costing might be used. How budgets are prepared and implemented across the organisation, the impact these have, and how techniques are applied to ensure sound short term decision making, against a backdrop of risk and uncertainty, by using appropriate risk management tools.
Learning Objectives:
- Cost Accounting for decision and control
- Budgeting and budgetary control
- Short term commercial decision making
- Risk and uncertainty in the short term
- Overview: Who the regulators are, what they do and why and how regulations are applied. How to prepare basic financial statements using financial reporting standards. How to distinguish between types of taxes, calculate corporation taxes and issues affecting taxation. What tools are used to ensure that the organisation has enough cash to ensure its continuing operations.
Learning Objectives:
- Regulatory environment of financial reporting
- Financial statements
- Principles of taxation
- Managing cash and working capital
Overview: The professional standards to be demonstrated for the benefit of all stakeholders. With this in mind, the place of ethics and ethical conflict is an essential underpinning for commercial activity. Ethics is more than just knowing the rules around confidentiality, integrity and objectivity. It’s about identifying ethical dilemmas, understanding the implications and behaving appropriately. It includes the role of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and audit; and their increasing impact in the management of organisations.
Learning Objectives:
- Business Ethics and Ethical Conflict
- Corporate Governance, Controls and Corporate Social Responsibility
- General Principles of the Legal System, Contract and Employment Law
- Company Administration
- At the Operational level, the role simulated is that of an Entry level finance professional and the capstone Case Study Examination provides a simulated context, which allows candidates to demonstrate that they have acquired the required knowledge, skills, techniques and mindset for that role.
Operational Level (4 Papers): 240 Hours Training + 40 Hours Revision & Practice
Overview: The central role that finance plays in an organisation, and how and why technologies used impact the finance function. How to use and examine data collected and processed by machines to create and preserve value for organisations. How the finance function is structured and shaped, and how it interacts with other parts of the organisation to achieve the objectives of the whole organisation.
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
Overview: Why costing is done and what it is used for, including appropriate costing methods and techniques and where digital costing might be used. How budgets are prepared and implemented across the organisation, the impact these have, and how techniques are applied to ensure sound short term decision making, against a backdrop of risk and uncertainty, by using appropriate risk management tools.
Learning Objectives:
- Cost Accounting for decision and control
- Budgeting and budgetary control
- Short term commercial decision making
- Risk and uncertainty in the short term
Overview: Who the regulators are, what they do and why and how regulations are applied. How to prepare basic financial statements using financial reporting standards. How to distinguish between types of taxes, calculate corporation taxes and issues affecting taxation. What tools are used to ensure that the organisation has enough cash to ensure its continuing operations.
Learning Objectives:
- Regulatory environment of financial reporting
- Financial statements
- Principles of taxation
- Managing cash and working capital
At the Operational level, the role simulated is that of an Entry level finance professional and the capstone Case Study Examination provides a simulated context, which allows candidates to demonstrate that they have acquired the required knowledge, skills, techniques and mindset for that role.
Management Level (4 Papers): 280 Hours Training + 40 Hours Revision & Practice
Overview: The fundamentals of business models and how new business and operating models can be developed to improve the performance of organisations. 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 strategies effectively and efficiently. Use of project management concepts and techniques useful in implementing strategies.
Learning Objectives:
- Business models and value creation
- Managing people performance
- Managing projects
Overview: How to use cost management, quality and process management and value management to provide organisations with cost advantage. The criteria, process and techniques that are used to decide which projects to undertake, how to manage the performance of organisational units to ensure that they achieve their objectives. How to analyse risks and uncertainties that organisations face in the medium term, especially capital investment decision making, and managing those risks in the implementation of such decision.
Learning Objectives:
- Managing the costs of creating value
- Capital investment decision making
- Managing and controlling the performance of organisational units
- Risk and control
Overview: The sources and types of funds and how much they cost. The key financial reporting standards on which financial statements will be based and the application of those standards to prepare group accounts. 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
At the Management level, the role simulated is that of a finance manager. The capstone Case Study Examination provides a simulated context allowing candidates to demonstrate that they have acquired the required knowledge, skills, techniques and the mindset required for that role.
Strategic Level (4 papers): 280 Hours Training + 40 Hours Revision & Practice
Overview: The foundation of strategic management and an understanding of the dynamics of the organizational ecosystem and how it affects the strategy of the organization. Strategic choice and how options are generated, linking them to the purpose, values and vision of the organization and how the options are evaluated, chosen and integrated coherently to form the strategy of the organization. How strategy is implemented, how implementation objectives are achieved and how change is managed. What are the technologies that underpin digital transformation and various elements of digital strategy.
Learning Objectives:
- The Strategy process
- Analysing the organisational ecosystem
- Generating strategic options
- Making strategic choices
- Strategic control
- Digital strategy
Overview: How to identify, evaluate and manage enterprise risks. Where strategic risks emanate from, how to evaluate them and understand how oversight of these risks is critical to the governance of the organization. How internal controls can be used effectively in the risk management process and how to identify, analyze, remedy and report strategic risks including cyber risks.
Learning Objectives:
- Enterprise risk
- Strategic risk
- Internal controls
- Cyber risk
Overview: The sources and types of funds and how much they cost. The key financial reporting standards on which financial statements will be based and the application of those standards to prepare group accounts. 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
At the Strategic level, the role simulated is that of the senior finance manager. The Case Study Examination provides a simulated context which allows learners to demonstrate that they have acquired the required knowledge, skills, techniques and mindset for that role.
CPA Course Curriculum
Normal Entry Route & Exam Exemptions
- Undergraduate - No exemption to these candidates. They will have to write all the 16 exams.
- Commerce Graduate - Certification level (first 4 papers) will get exempted. These candidates can start from the operational level and will have to write only 12 exams.
- Full time Commerce PG - These candidates can go via the “Gateway” route of CIMA, in which the candidates have to write only 5 exams i.e., management case study, E3, P3, F3 and strategic case study. 11 exams below management case study gets exempted for them.
- CA/CMA (ICWA) - These candidates have to write only strategic case study exams. All the other 15 exams will be exempted.
Special Route - FLP
The CGMA FLP (Finance Leadership Program) teaches the same competencies as other routes to the CIMA Professional Qualification. This prepares finance professionals for careers in management accounting. Students will be assessed on the same material and must demonstrate the same level of competency and experience to earn the CGMA designation and CIMA membership.
With the CGMA FLP, learning is part of a subscription package and delivered online in digital environment. The CGMA FLP offers you the opportunity to both learn the material and sit online assessments at your speed. As there is no Objective Test (OT) exam date to schedule or work towards, you can study when you want, wherever you are, and even learn the topics in whichever order you like. Case study exams can be sat at an assessment centre or taken remotely online, thus creating a true digital learning experience
What is Accounting and Management Professional (AMP)?
Accounting and Management professional (AMP) is an initiative by The WallStreet School which not only prepares a student for CIMA exam through FLP route, but also makes them Job ready by giving training for skills like Financial Modeling, Valuations, Stock Market Research, Excel etc.
If you want to kick start your career in finance or to break into middle and senior level management, then AMP is the perfectly designed course for you. We can vouch for it as it is built around CGMA, A world class designation powered by AICPA and CIMA, that combines technical accounting skills with management issues faced in businesses.
Under AMP, students also get Job opportunities in Accounting and Consulting profiles through the placement network of The WallStreet School.
Highlights:
- CIMA Exams Coaching
- Practical Skills Training
- Placement Support
- Pathway to CGMA via FLP route
- Rank Oriented Approach
CIMA® (US) Course
Fees and Admissions
| Undergraduates and Below | Commerce Graduates With Relevant Master’s Degree | Other Graduates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Special Route | AMP UG | AMP Gateway | Post Graduate Certification in Finance & Management Accounting (PG-CFMA) |
| Package | ● CIMA Coaching ● Financial Modeling & Excel Training ● Stock Market Training ● Placement Support | ● CIMA Coaching ● Financial Modeling & Excel Training ● Stock Market Training ● Placement Support | ● CIMA Coaching ● Financial Modeling & Excel Training ● Stock Market Training ● Placement Support |
| About it | Candidates will do operation, management & strategic level of CIMA and will write only the case study exam of these levels with CIMA. Write only three case studies exams with CIMA through FLP route and you will earn the CGMA Designation and acquire real life skills; all while still in college. By the time you will be graduated, you will find yourself to be job ready and a spectacular individual. | Candidates will do management & strategic level of CIMA and will write only the case study exam of these levels with CIMA. Write only two case studies exams with CIMA through FLP route and you will earn the CGMA Designation within 1.5 years. Acquire the critical skills that are demonstrated at middle and senior level management. These skillsets along with in-depth knowledge of business & finance perspective will help you to build and progress in your career. | PG-CFMA is program designed by TWSS and built around CIMA’s operational & management level. This is made for the candidates who are in their last year of commerce graduation and commerce graduate candidates with no relevant master’s degree that enables them to pursue CGMA via FLP route. Our PG-CFMA is approved by CIMA. Candidates needs to clear the case study-based exam in each term to successfully complete this program. Post which they will be awarded with TWSS PG and can pursue CIMA through FLP. |
Duration & Fees for Classroom/Live Batches
| CIMA Subscription Fee For Non TWSS Students | ● £1999 for 1 year ● £2999 for 2 years ● £3999 for 3 years |
| CIMA Subscription Fee For TWSS Students | ● £499 for 1 year ● £799 for 2 years ● £1199 for 3 years |
Note : Subscription fee (both for Non TWSS and TWSS students) includes CIMA registration fee, and exam fee with 2 attempts a year. Subscription fees is payable to the CIMA institute.
Please get in touch with our counselors to learn about the total coaching fees payable to The WallStreet School that includes 1000+ hours of CIMA training and reduced CIMA Subscription Fee as shown in the table above.
Who can take up this course?
Placement Assistance
TWSS Provides placement assistance to all the eligible candidates. The candidates who are confident to take up the interviews are facilitated for the interviews. We have a success based model. We charge a ‘Placement Success Fees’ of Rs. 75,000 once the candidate gets Placed through us and Accepts the offer.
CMA® (US) Coaching Trainers
Making the most of our deep connects with the industry, a senior Industry professional is on hand to mentor you to narrow down your career choices, evaluate your project submissions and give you constructive feedback.
CA Amit Jugia
Managing Partner - The WallStreet School
Lead Faculty - Accounting Programs
Ex-Consultant, Big 4
CA, CS, CMA and CIMA
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CA Akhil Iyer
Lead Faculty for ACCA, CMA & CIMA
Ex – Google, HSBC, EY
CA, MBA (IIFT) and CIMAC
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Animesh Choudhary
Lead faculty,
ACCA & CIMA
7+ Years of Training Experience
CIMA, MBA (Finance)
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Where Our Alumni Work
Our Corporate and Placement Network Spans Across 250+ Leading Global Firms
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Frequently Asked Questions
Average CIMA Salary
If you work in India after completing the CPA course, you can easily expect an average salary between Rs. 7-9 Lakhs p.a. As you take up challenging tasks and grow in experience, your salary also grows.
When it comes to working abroad, the CPA certification is acceptable in pretty much all countries. The salary of a CPA in the US is between $ 70,000 – 80,000 p.a.
| Job Title | Salary (INR) |
| Financial Planner | 3 – 10 LPA |
| Budget Manager | 10 – 20 LPA |
| Accountant | 3 – 8 LPA |
| Auditor | 5 – 20 LPA |
| Financial Analyst | 5 – 12 LPA |
| Investment Advisor | 5 – 12 LPA |
| Tax Consultant | 5 – 10 LPA |
| Risk Manager | 9 – 23 LPA |
| Personal Financial Advisor | 5 – 20 LPA |
| Government Advisor | 5 – 12 LPA |
| Forensic Accountant | 5 – 12 LPA |
Comparison Between CA and CPA
One of the most prestigious accounting courses in India is the Chartered Accountancy (by ICAI). However, many CAs who want to pursue a career abroad have to take up the CPA course. This is because of the international outlook and acceptability in over 150 countries.
While CA is a long and tedious course with a low passing rate (not more than 20% at all 3 levels), the CPA course is also popular for its shorter duration and higher passing rates (between 41-60%). Here are the key differences between the 2 courses:
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Frequently Asked Questions
Anyone who has cleared 12th class or is above 16 years old irrespective of whether he/she is from commerce stream or any other stream. Depending upon prior qualification and/or experience, a candidate can get up to 15 paper exemptions.
There are 4 levels in CIMA (Certificate, Operational, Management and Strategic Level) and each level has 4 exams, totaling up to 16 exams (all are computer based exams). 13 exams are on demand objective exams for 2 hours each whereas the remaining 3 are pre seen based case study examinations (Operational Case Study or OCS, Management Case Study or MCS and Strategic case study or SCS) of 3 hours each held quarterly in February, May, August and November.
Depending upon the candidate’s past experience and qualification, this course can be completed between 8 months to 36 months.
Cost of doing CIMA qualification depends upon which route you are following for doing CIMA (i.e. Normal route or FLP route or Pathways).
On an average, for an undergraduate going through FLP route, CIMA’s cost without coaching (in India) is around INR 2 lakhs and with coaching, it comes out to INR 4 lakhs.
For a professional through pathways program, approximate cost of doing CIMA varies from INR 2.5 lakhs to INR 5 Lakhs.
For a candidate who is going through Normal route, will incur approximate CIMA cost of INR 3 lakhs without coaching and INR 6 lakhs with coaching.
FLP (Finance Leadership Program): Under this route, an eligible undergraduate student will be writing only three case studies exams (i.e. OCS, MCS and SCS) at the CIMA examination centers. An eligible commerce graduate or post graduate would be able to complete CIMA by only writing two case study exams (i.e. MCS and SCS).
Fees for this route can differ and increase significantly if you go on your own instead of going through an approved learning partner like The WallStreet School.
CIMA has come up with pathway routes for professionals in which they have to write only 1 to 2 case studies exam (i.e. MCS and/or SCS) depending upon their prior qualifications and experience. A CA/CMA India has to write only SCS and is exempted from 15 papers of CIMA. An MBA(Finance) or MCom who has got experience of 6 years or more, has to only write MCS and SCS exams. A Professional has more than 10 years of experience in the relevant accounts or finance field can directly write the SCS exam. All these pathways are subject to approval by CIMA, UK.
Yes, there are certain subsidized fees available to eligible candidates. Eligible candidates are those who are studying with a University Partner of CIMA or are studying with Approved Learning Partners of CIMA like The WallStreet School. There is a substantial savings (upto 70%) an eligible candidate can achieve while doing CIMA with an approved learning partner or University Partner.
CIMA’s scope in India and globally is increasing exponentially. Through CIMA, a student is not only able to make career only in Accounting, Finance or Management Accounting domain but also he/she becomes eligible to work in the Management Areas as well. This unique proposition in CIMA qualification makes it stand apart from other professional qualifications.
Further, after every level, CIMA awards you with a diploma, advanced diploma or the membership through which scope increases in India as well as globally. Also, association of CIMA with AICPA, US has helped in increasing the opportunities and scope further.
In India, MNC organizations and Big four consulting firms (i.e. PwC, Deloitte, KPMG or EY) hire CIMA after every level in different profiles relating to Financial Reporting, Management Accounting, Finance and Management.
CIMA UK gives you the expertise in diversified areas, making you eligible to kick start / progress in various profiles including but not limited to the following:
Accounting | Management Accounting | Risk Management | Financial Management & Treasury |
Financial Reporting | Budgeting | Forecasting | Risk Identification & Reporting | Investment Appraisal |
Fixed Assets Accounting | Financial Planning & Analysis | Monitoring Risk | Cash & Working Capital Management |
Accounts Payable/Receivable, etc. | Variance Analysis, etc. | Risk Mitigation, etc. | Foreign Exchange Management, etc. |
| Level | Exam Pattern | Average Pass Rate (Range) |
| Certificate | Objective | 60% to 70% |
| Operational | Objective | 70% to 80% |
| Operational | Case Study | 60% to 70% |
| Management | Objective | 50% to 60% |
| Management | Case Study | 60% to 70% |
| Strategic | Objective | 50% to 60% |
| Strategic | Case Study | 60% to 70% |
So, Case studies exams have an average pass rate of 60% to 70% while Objective test exams have an average pass rate close to 50% to 60%.
An aspirant can do CIMA through the following routes:
- FLP (Finance Leadership Program): Under this route, an eligible undergraduate student will be writing only three case studies exams (i.e. OCS, MCS and SCS) at the CIMA examination centers. An eligible commerce graduate or post graduate would be able to complete CIMA by only writing two case study exams (i.e. MCS and SCS).
- Pathways: CIMA has come up with pathway routes for professionals in which they have to write only 1 to 2 case studies exam (i.e. MCS and/or SCS) depending upon their prior qualifications and experience. A CA/CMA India has to write only SCS and is exempted from 15 papers of CIMA. An MBA(Finance) or MCom who has got experience of 6 years or more, has to only write MCS and SCS exams. A Professional has has got more than 10 years of experience in the relevant accounts or finance field can directly write SCS exam. All these pathways are subject to approval by CIMA, UK.
- Normal Route: Under Normal route, an undergraduate needs to write all 16 exams of CIMA qualification starting from Certificate Level to Strategic Level. A commerce graduate needs to write 12 exams starting from Operational Level to Strategic Level.
Primarily, there is no difference in terms of knowledge or recognition in India/abroad whether you go by FLP or Pathway or Normal Route. However, there is huge difference in Time and Efforts involved in each route. Pathway programs are primarily for working professionals and take least time, followed by FLP route and lastly Normal route which on an average takes roughly 3 to 4 years to complete.
CIMA is a preferred choice for anyone looking to make his/her career in the fields of Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance or Management. CIMA makes a lot of sense for the following reasons:
- Evergreen Skills: In CIMA, you will develop the skills through which humans can never be obsolete like data backed decision making for the business.
- Leadership: You will learn how to make decisions and lead the business or assist in that process across three levels of the company i.e. lower level management, middle level management and top level management.
- Global Recognition: You will earn CGMA (Chartered Global Management Accountant) designation and become a CIMA member as well, which will open doors for job opportunities in 180 countries of the world.
- Association: Set up of “The Association” of AICPA (US) and CIMA (UK) has amplified the recognition and reward of CIMA professionals exponentially.
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