CIMA^® Coaching Classes

Overview: Subject primarily covers the economic and operating context of business and how the factors of competition, the behaviour of financial markets and government economic policy can influence an organisation.

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Overview: This subject deals with the fundamental knowledge and techniques that underpin management accounting. It identifies the position of the management accountant within organisations and the role of CIMA. The subject portrays the role of management accounting in the contexts of commercial and public sector bodies and its wider role in society.

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Overview: The main objective of this subject is to obtain a practical understanding of financial accounting and the process behind the preparation of financial statements for single entities.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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Overview: The different strategic financial objectives and policy options that are open to organizations. The types of funds available to organizations to finance the implementation of their strategies, including where and how they access these funds at the right time, in the right quantities and at the right cost. The sources of financial risk, how to evaluate and manage financial risk appropriately, and techniques in business valuation to assess whether a company has created and preserved value within the organization. The valuation techniques to calculate value of organizations and conditions applicable for such calculations especially intangibles in the digital world and how to report intangible value and their drivers in integrated reporting.

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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.