Studying

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.

Student conferences 2009

Our student conferences offer a variety of speakers, presentations and activities to help you with the CIMA exams and your next step.

Exam dates

The next exam diets will take place on the following dates:
24, 25, 26 November 2009.

Exam entry

Please see our exam entry information page for details of the exam entry process with CIMA.

Exam results information

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

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. Read the latest issue to find out about important exam dates, upcoming student events, and to try practice exam questions.

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.

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).

Important changes to examinable accounting legislation - Read this notice to find out about important changes to the examinable accounting legislation for May and November 2009 with particular reference to IAS 1, IFRS 3 and IAS 27.