When you partner with CIMA®, we can connect your globally competitive university to top employers and prepare your students for a career in business through the CGMA® designation.
We work with you to create new opportunities for your faculty to tap into potential research grants, conference sponsorships, resources and networking opportunities with academics and CIMA members around the world.
AICPA & CIMA University Partners are select universities that offer their students the chance to gain a globally recognised accounting qualification in addition to their bachelor’s or master’s degrees.
Find out all the benefits you’ll enjoy as a AICPA & CIMA University Partner.
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FLP is the Finance Leadership Program, and the guided, digital learning and assessment route needed to earn the CGMA® designation.
What is the CGMA Finance Leadership Program:
- Guided, digital learning and assessment route
- Review course is incorporated within the platform
- Helps students grow into strategic value business partners
- Real world application and knowledge integration in a digital world
- Makes students career ready
- Learning pathway to earning the CGMA® globally-recognized credential
You can become a partner now by offering this fully online platform to your students to study CIMA's CGMA Professional Qualification whilst on campus.
To do so, you may integrate part of the CGMA syllabus into your course at the university.
Contact your local CIMA office now or write to academic.partners@aicpa-cima.com
Visit the CGMA FLP University Resource site to find out more
The Global CGMA University and Academic Center of Excellence (COE) works with academic partners and create resources to universities around the world.
By providing these resources to accounting and finance faculty, we foster innovative business and academic-valued solutions through consultation, partnerships, best practices, policies and training.
View our related webpages to find these resources:
Launched in 2020, the Awards programme recognises university and academic partners who have worked tirelessly to equip CGMA-qualified graduates and students for future-ready careers.
Find out who were our award winners last year and apply for your turn to be recognised.
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The COE organises regular events and trainings such as the following:
- Academic events are held regularly to bridge communication amongst AICPA & CIMA staff, academic partners and practitioners. View the videos on best practices shared by CGMA Academic Champions such as "Integrating digital topics into the accounting or finance curriculum".
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- The CGMA Academic Champion programme brings together a group of highly qualified management accounting academics from different campuses around the world to discover their aspirations which provide insights to tailor our collaboration accordingly.
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- CGMA Case Study Analysis trainings in exclusive university partner campuses provide upskilling opportunities on new digital topics found in the CGMA Professional Qualification such as data analytics and blockchain, cybersecurity and digital strategy.
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- CGMA Emerging Leaders Competition for ambitious students supports university partners in their employability agenda.
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To be a university partner, you will need to be familiar with the CGMA Professional Qualification.
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Once, you have become a university partner, you may wish to use specially curated CGMA syllabus resources in your classroom to encourage your students to pursue dual awards.
These classroom teaching support are available in the Tutor Resource Hub and there are specific documents for each CGMA subject and each case study level. These resources are comprehensive and include a library of published resources (videos, articles, reports, podcasts) that you might want to use in the classroom.
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Or check out this F3 Financial Strategy example to see what’s available.
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Our new approach to a partnership requires your programme to adhere to consistent entry points that have proven to yield the best student success in CIMA exams. Entry points will depend on the field of study in a degree especially finance, accounting and business.
If you are currently not an AICPA & CIMA University Partner and have not had your programme reviewed, find out how many exemptions your students and graduates are eligible for:
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All our University Partners' programmes are listed in the Exemptions search pages.
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Consistent entry points will provide the following benefits to students:
- Focus on student outcome.
- Improve pass rates and progression.
- Increased confidence towards professional exams.
- Enables us to offer more focused study support into one entry point.
Find out last year's Prize-Winner and Global Excellence award winners recognising universities that trained top CGMA candidates!
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In these unprecedented times, we want to be supportive to all our University Partners. If your assessement strategy has been adapted to account for COVID-19, for example, social distancing measures etc, please forward your revised strategy to your local Account Manager for our records.