Certified Management Accountant - CMA

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

• Understand the principles of financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Apply cost management and analysis techniques.
• Analyze financial statements.
• Understand valuation concepts and techniques.
• Understand capital budgeting and investment decisions.
• Apply working capital management techniques.
• Apply marginal analysis and pricing decisions.
• Understand ethics and professionalism in management accounting.
• Apply strategic planning and analysis techniques.

Course Outline:

Day One:

Session One:

• Financial Planning, Performance, and Analytics.
• Overview of the CMA certification and exam.
• Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

Session Two:

• Performance management and evaluation.
• Cost management and analysis.
• Internal controls and risk management.

Day Two:

Session One:

• Financial Statement Analysis. 
• Financial statement analysis. 
• Ratio analysis and interpretation.

Session Two: 

• Trend analysis and forecasting.
• Valuation concepts and techniques.

Day Three:

Session One:

• Corporate Finance. 
• Capital budgeting and investment decisions. 
• Financing decisions and capital structure.

Session Two:

• Dividend policy and share repurchases. 
• Working capital management.

Day Four:

Session One:

• Decision Analysis and Risk Management. 
• Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis.
• Marginal analysis and pricing decisions.

Session Two: 

• Risk and uncertainty analysis.  
• Decision-making models and techniques.

Day Five:

Session One:

• Ethics, Professionalism, and Strategic Planning
• Ethics and professionalism in management accounting
• Strategic planning and analysis

Session Two:

• Performance measurement and evaluation. 
• Corporate governance and social responsibility.