CIMA Professional Qualification

CIMA® Professional Qualification

Why Choose CIMA

CIMA is one of the world’s largest professional accountancy body with 689,000 members and students worldwide. CIMA delivers you the cornerstone knowledge and skills you’ll need to succeed in business or finance. You’ll be capable of working in just about any type of enterprise, small or big, private or public entities. The industry-led examinations and constantly revised curriculum made sure that you have a competitive advantage in the employment market. You won’t simply learn to crunch numbers studying CIMA; instead, you’ll gain the vital skills and techniques which employers all over the world are desperately searching for. Click here to learn more about CIMA.

Awards of World-Class

Graduates of CIMA professional qualification are eligible for DUAL AWARDS upon fulfillment of practical experience requirements. The awards are the ACMA/FCMA (Associate/Fellow Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) and CGMA designation (Chartered Global Management Accountant). CGMA is an association formed between the CIMA and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The CGMA designation makes up the most relevant global finance qualification for a business career, with over 140,000 finance professionals worldwide. With both designations of a world-class brand, you open doors to careers in any part of the world. Jump-start your career with the benefits of CGMA designation.

Qualification Framework

CIMA studies focus on developing four categories of abilities needed for businesses of today, including technical, business, people, and leadership. Besides technical accounting and finance competencies, CIMA emphasizes establishing business skills among the students and members. Organizational knowledge, business model familiarity, strategic context knowledge, and competitive positioning knowledge are all essential for finance professionals. Likewise, people and leadership skills are also essential for accountants to implement their expertise effectively. The syllabus of CIMA qualification is based on the CGMA Qualification Framework, a robust framework established with extensive input from finance professionals and employers worldwide. Hence, acquiring a CIMA qualification allows you to be trained in multiple skills in demands in businesses.

The updated syllabus of CIMA (The 2019 Professional Qualification) has aligned the training of accounting and finance specialists to the increasingly digital environment of businesses. The revised curriculum explores how the digital age influences finance, as evidenced by the addition of digital costing, digital strategy, cybersecurity, and business models. Topics of growing importance, such as integrated reporting, are regularly updated in the curriculum. Click here to learn more about the CGMA framework.


Course Structure

The CIMA® qualification comprises the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting (Cert. BA) and the CIMA Professional. The Certificate in Business Administration comprises four subjects on foundational knowledge in business. There are three levels of study at the CIMA professional, which are operational, management, and strategic level.

CIMA 100% Exam Track

Professional Level

  • Dual awards: ACMA & CGMA.
  • 3 levels: Operational, Management & Strategic.
  • Focus on training accounting & finance specialists in the business.
  • Each level comprises three competencies subjects and one case study.
  • 90 minutes objective-oriented exams for each competencies subject.
  • 3 hours of written assessment for each case study exam.
  • Suitable for undergraduates and graduates in business degrees. Eligibility of exemptions is available. Click here to inquire about your exemptions.
  • Click here to learn more about CIMA Professional Qualification.

Certificate Level

  • Award: CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting.
  • Focus on building foundational knowledge for business.
  • 4 subjects, each with 120 minutes of objective-oriented exams.
  • The entry certificate to study CIMA® Professional Qualification.
  • Suitable for SPM/UEC/STPM school leavers, and graduates/undergraduates of non-business degrees.
  • Upon completion, competent to undertake accounting jobs.
  • Click here to learn more about the Certificate in Business Accounting.

CGMA Finance Leadership Program (FLP) Track

A simplified track to study CIMA Professional level


The CGMA Finance Leadership Program (FLP) is an innovation by the CIMA to bring professional accounting learning at the ease of students’ pace via its comprehensive platform of digital learning and assessment. Under the CGMA FLP, you could master the subjects via online learning and take online assessments at your own pace. The FLP track moves towards minimum examinations and adding on assessments via quizzes. There would be only 3 case study exams for the CIMA Professional level, and no exams for the remaining 9 competency subjects. So you can study whenever you want, wherever you are, and in any order you desire. CIMA supports case study exams taken by students in person at an assessment centre or remotely online, making the FLP a truly digital educational experience.

Same Syllabus – Different Assessment Methods

The CGMA FLP track is based on exactly the same syllabus as the CIMA® Professional qualification. You may gain CIMA® Professional qualification via TWO routes:

(1) follow the CIMA 100% EXAM Track, you need to pass 12 exams, OR;

(2) follow the CGMA FLP Track, you need to pass 3 case study examinations, and the rest 9 competency subjects are based on self-assessment quizzes.

Transform accounting study via digital learning of FLP

The CGMA Finance Leadership Program (FLP) offers a fully digitalized educational experience for accountancy and finance learning. The FLP track offers an online path for students to complete their studies at the CIMA® Professional level.

Graduates of CIMA professional qualification are eligible for dual awards upon fulfillment of practical requirement experience. The awards are the ACMA/FCMA (Associate/Fellow Members of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) and CGMA designation (Chartered Global Management Accountant). The CGMA designation makes up the most relevant global finance qualification for a business career and there are over 140,000 finance professionals worldwide who have the CGMA designation. Jump-start your career with the benefits of CGMA designation.

CGMA FLP, you could master the subject and take the online assessments at your own pace. There is no examination for the subjects, hence you can study whenever you want, wherever you are, and in any order you desire. Students can take exams for case studies in person at an assessment center or remotely online,

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