CIMA offers work experience placements to future finance leaders

11 October 2005

CIMA (The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) has joined forces with The Trident Trust, an established charity and the largest coordinator of work experience in the UK, to help place work experience students in finance related roles. The scheme will offer Year 10 and 11 students the opportunity to experience working with a CIMA Training Partner's finance team at the cutting edge of business decision making.

The placements are registered with Trident who will coordinate with schools to find suitable students, carry out health and safety checks and monitor the student on placement. The scheme will promote the importance of finding the right business minds to lead finance functions in the future.

Trident Trust Director, Sue Sutton, said: "We are absolutely delighted to be working with CIMA to provide students with worthwhile and stimulating work experience opportunities across the country. The Trident Trust has thirty years' history in providing young people with valuable workplace experiences and this collaboration with CIMA can only benefit students and the accountancy profession as a whole."

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For further information, please contact:

Steven Hilton
Press Officer, CIMA
+44 (0) 20 8849 2427
steven.hilton@cimaglobal.com

Notes to editors

1. CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) is a leading professional body that offers an internationally recognised qualification in management accountancy, focussing on accounting in business. It is the fastest growing UK based membership body, in terms of members, in both the UK and worldwide and is the voice of over 85,000 students and 65,000 members in 156 countries. CIMA is responsible for the education and training of management accountants who work in industry, commerce and not-for-profit and has more members in the public sector than any other UK based body. CIMA prides itself on the commercial relevance of its syllabus, which is in tune with the activities of high performance organisations, and evolves continually reflecting the latest developments in global business. It is committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards of members and students, and to maintaining public confidence in management accountancy. For more information about CIMA, please visit http://www.cimaglobal.com/
2. Trident Trust is an established educational charity that has existed for 30 years to help young people aged 14-25 prepare for life beyond the classroom. It does this through improving their employability and enterprise skills, helping them to develop as individuals. Trident is the largest co-coordinator of work experience in the UK and works with key industries developing project portfolios with employers to help students make the most of their work experience. Trident currently works with The London Stock Exchange, bringing the worlds of business and finance together with secondary school teachers. It also runs a citizenship project for young people, sponsored by Deutsche Bank (http://www.thecitizenproject.co.uk/). Every year Trident places more than 140,000 students with 90,000 employers in all sectors of the economy across the UK. For more information about The Trident Trust, please visit http://www.thetridenttrust.org.uk/