Professionalism, ethics and conduct

CIMA is committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards, and to maintaining public confidence in management accounting. Find out how being a CIMA professional makes you stand out from the crowd.

CIMA members and students are required to comply with the CIMA code of ethics and to adopt the fundamental principles to their working lives.

Find out more about professionalism, CIMA's ethics support and professional conduct.

CIMA ethics in three minutes
This animation explains the code and what you need to do when facing an ethical dilemma.

Animation by Simeon Tennant.

For more information read the members' handbook.

Ethical newsletter
Keep up to date with our ethics newsletter, Ethical lens.