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CIMA qualifications put you in an ideal position to achieve your goals. You will develop the financial expertise and strategic insight to make key decisions about the future of business.

The CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting gives a solid grounding in the basics of accounting and business. It is also a stepping stone towards the CIMA Professional qualification.

You can study in a way that suits your circumstances and pace. You will have to work hard, but we want to help you achieve your potential. We continually enhance the support we give you.

Entry for November 2008 exams

Entry for the November exams opens on 1 August 2008. Please see our exam entry information page for date and entry details.

May 2008 exam results information

Please see our assessment and results pages for details about exam results dates and script review advice.

May 2008 exam question papers and post exam guides

You can download these from the study resources area.

Velocity - CIMA's student e-magazine

Our student e-magazine has been developed to support our CIMA students. We publish it every two months. Read the latest issue to find out about important exam dates, upcoming student events, and to try practice exam questions.

Velocity also has interviews with students who talk about combining their CIMA studies with work, and plenty of links to useful careers information.

Student conferences 2008

Check the CIMA events pages for events such as the CIMA student conferences 2008 - a series of one day student conferences that provide a wealth of information for CIMA students.

Exemptions

Use our exemptions database to find out if your qualification exempts you from some CIMA papers.

Changes to Managerial level assessment

Find out about assessment changes to papers P1 Management Accounting Performance Evaluation, P4 Organisational Management and Information Systems and P7 Financial Accounting and Tax Principles of the Managerial level from the May 2007 diet.

Also download some example questions and answers for the new compulsory section C for Paper P7 Financial Accounting and Tax Principles, effective from May 2007.

Notes for P8 Financial analysis candidates

Pooling of interests - This method of consolidation was included in the syllabus paper P8 Financial Analysis when it was launched in 2004 and first examined in 2005.

This method has since been outlawed by the International Accounting Standards Board. It is no longer an examinable topic in this paper under syllabus section A Group Financial Statements and the learning outcomes (vii) and (viii).

IFRS 8 Operating Segments - All P8 candidates should note that although IFRS 8 Operating Segments was issued in November 2006, it is effective only for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2009.

IFRS 8 will not be examinable in the 2008 Financial Analysis exams. Until 2009, IAS 14 Segment Reporting will be examinable instead.

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