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As the global leader in management accounting CIMA is committed to producing relevant, rigorous and applied research. We publish industry-leading insight, fund academic programmes, and collaborate with partners globally to help people and organisations drive better, sustainable business performance.

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  • Report visualisation: from concept to deployment

    This report analyses how multimedia technology is providing insight around business performance and improving the speed of decision making through graphically presenting patterns, trends and correlations.

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  • Six rules to delivering a powerful financial presentation

    Public speaking, the number one fear of most people, can be overcome. Analyse one of the key soft skills that accountants need to possess in order to engage stakeholders and help decision making.

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  • Keeping business clean: a CGMA guide to countering fraud and corruption

    This briefing report outlines recent developments and trends on fraud and corruption globally and the role of the management accountant in helping establish best practice in their organisation. It offers guidance to a range of resources and reading materials.

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  • CGMA Cybersecurity Tool

    Cybersecurity is one of the central issues and risks in today’s global economy. Cyber attacks are no longer a question of if, but a question of when.

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  • CGMA Business model global consultation

    Business models are often misunderstood and lack consistency. Most businesses use the term ‘business model’ but do not follow any particular processes or frameworks in order to create and manage them. Our work intends to change this.

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  • Cost Transformation Model

    The CGMA cost transformation model is designed to help businesses to achieve and maintain cost competitiveness.

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The changing shape of the finance function

Discover the evolving shape of the finance function in the digital age, as described by senior executives in this future of finance research paper.

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Financial reporting supply chain

Financial reporting has changed radically over the past ten years. New technology and more sophisticated performance metrics have increased the amount and quality of information generated by businesses. The accounting standards environment has become more international, and governance continues to be a major issue for management, shareholders and regulators, focusing them on the quality of corporate reporting.

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Financial leadership for government

CIMA and the Institute for Government have joined forces to produce a blueprint for reform that will lead to better decision making and more efficient government. The aim is to provide a structure to open debate about the role of financial leadership at the centre of large, devolved organisations, and to support the UK government’s work in building ‘a much stronger corporate leadership model’, as set out in the Civil Service Reform Plan.

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Accounting trends in a borderless world

Including analysis from a global survey of over 5,000 senior finance and senior non-finance professionals, this report assesses the latest trends facing the profession, comparing east and west, and highlights the challenges facing accountants the world over.

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Case study: Boonsiri Somchit-Ong, Advanced Micro Devices Global Services

Boonsiri Somchit-Ong is the corporate vice-president for finance at Advanced Micro Devices Global Services in Malaysia.

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Case study: Lakmali Nanayakkara: Ernst and Young

Lakmali was the first woman in Sri Lanka to hold the position of partner in one of the international accountancy firms.

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Case study: Devika Mohotti, IBM Australia

Devika Mohotti ACMA, business operations executive of the growth markets unit at IBM, is involved worldwide in all regions except North America, Western Europe and Japan.

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Beyond the glass ceiling

CIMA recently asked senior female members to share their strategies for success. In this article from the September 2010 edition of Financial Management magazine Sandra Rapacioli reports their insights on reaching the top.

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Beyond enthusiasm: your business' case for web 2.0

As ambitious new uses for web 2.0 technology are discussed, commentators (mostly enthusiasts) stress the huge significance of these developments. There is an urgency not to be left behind.

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Adopting enterprise web 2.0

This report seeks to augment the ability of executives, managers and accountants to better understand one of the most recent examples of technologically enabled change, web 2.0, and its business related variant, enterprise 2.0. It analyses their current usage and their implications for management accountants through the experiences of two companies which are early adopters of enterprise web 2.0 technique.

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