CIMA Certificate - Fundamentals of Management Accounting (BA2)

Gain a complete understanding of the fundamentals of management accounting and begin your journey towards the CIMA Professional Chartered Management Accounting Qualification.

As unit one of an entry-level qualification, this course is perfect for those who have virtually no accounting experience and want to start their journey into the accounting for business industry.

There are no pre-requisites for the course, however, to boost your chances of success a good level of numeracy and English would be beneficial.

This section of the course covers the fundamentals of management accounting and the role of a management accountant. (C01)

• Get to grips with the industry basics, including the CIMA definition of management accounting, and the role of the management accountant within a business.
• Understand the importance of cost control and responsible accounting.
• Gain an insight to the formation of the CIMA and its existence as a professional body in Management Accounting.
• Explore the classification of costs, behavioral patterns and their activity.
• Learn the importance of budgeting and planning from functional and master budgets, to interpreting statements and variances.
• Learn how to prepare financial statements for the purpose of management perusal and distinguish between the various managerial reports across a diverse range of organisations and enterprises.
• Understand and learn the contribution concept and how to implement cost-volume-profit analysis while also being able to explain, construct or buy decisions.
• Evaluate the importance of long term investments.

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