CGMA Finance Leadership Programme - for NWU Alumni

The CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) syllabus comprises three levels of achievement. The student may start at the Operational level and move on to the Management level before culminating at the Strategic level. Throughout, students may study up to nine subjects from three areas of knowledge: Enterprise (E-pillar), Performance (P-pillar) and Financial (F-pillar). The goal is to earn the CGMA Professional Qualification. The average student takes around four years. This, however, reduces dramatically to two years for students with a Bachelor of Commerce Accountancy degree or one year for students with an Honours degree in Management Accountancy from accredited institutions such as the NWU.

CIMA developed an online programme (the FLP) to assist students in completing their professional exams and offered access to this material to external tuition providers, including universities. For universities, this is offered at reduced rates but only to their alumni.

The Management Accountancy programme would like to use this opportunity to provide the programme to its alumni students at a rate much lower than the private tuition providers in South Africa. We would also offer additional support in preparing for the CIMA Management- and Strategic-level case studies in the
form of online workshops as part of the SLP.

Purpose of the course

If CIMA’s CGMA Professional Qualification sets out to reach one goal, it is to enhance students’ employability. Upon completion, students will have the skills, competencies and mindset employers want.

The purpose of the course is to offer students access to the FLP and in addition, prepare them for the CIMA case study examinations at the Managerial and Strategic level.

Admission requirements

Holds the BCom (Management Accountancy) or BComHons (Management Accountancy) obtained from NWU.

Learning assumed to be in place

Knowledge and skills obtained in the BCom (Management Accountancy) or BComHons (Management Accountancy) at
NWU.

Course outcomes and assessment criteria

Course outcomes and the associated assessment criteria

Study Unit	Outcomes	Assessment Criteria
	On completion of the CEd offering, the participant should be able to demonstrate:	The participant will reach the CEd offering outcomes if he/she is able to:
On Management Level	Integrated knowledge of and engagement with the use of data and relevant technology to manage organisational and individual performance	Use data and relevant technology to manage organisational and individual performance in an objective test and case study environment.
	Advanced ability to allocate resources to implement decisions; monitor and report the implementation of decisions.	Allocate resources to implement decisions; monitor and report the implementation of decisions in an objective test and case study environment.
	Advanced ability to prepare and interpret financial statements to highlight business performance.	Prepare and interpret financial statements to highlight business performance in an objective test and case study environment.
On Strategic Level	Advanced ability to support organisational leaders to craft strategy.	Support organisational leaders to craft strategy in an objective test and case study environment.
	Advanced ability to evaluate and manage risks that might prevent organisations from successfully implementing strategy.	Evaluate and manage risks that might prevent organisations from successfully implementing strategy in an objective test and case study environment.
	Advanced ability to value organisations; and	Value organisations in an objective test and case study environment; and
	Advanced ability to source financial resources required to implement strategy.	Source financial resources required to implement strategy in an objective test and case study environment.