Chartered Institute of Management Accountants CIMA Professional

About the course

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants CIMAThis course is designed for those seeking to gain the professional CIMA qualification with a leading UK Business School and a CIMA Learning Quality Partner.

• Leicester Business School is a CIMA Learning Quality Partner
• The Department of Accounting and Finance was awarded the best possible result from the Government’s QAA review for excellent teaching and student support
• Accounting and finance staff offer a wealth of industry, professional practice and academic experience

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Key facts

UCAS course code:

Duration: Up to four years part-time

Institution code: D26

Entry and admission criteria

Entry is subject to CIMA approval. You should check your eligibility by contacting CIMA directly

Teaching and assessment

The CIMA programme at DMU is designed to keep your weekdays free for work and your weekends for play!

Each course (non-Certificate) will be run over an 11 week sequence of 4 hour evening sessions (other than E1 & E2 which are 10 sessions each). These 11 sessions will be composed of 7 sessions of tuition (equivalent to 4 full days of tuition), 3 sessions of revision (equivalent to 1½ full days of revision) and 1 session of question practise/Mocks (equivalent to a ½ day of question practise).

The tuition sessions will be evenly allocated to the learning objectives based on the official CIMA syllabus structure weightings. The materials being used will be the officially recognised CIMA study materials. There will only be one course per evening so no clashes.

On top of this, 2 further revision and question practise sessions (the 12th and 13th) will run in February/August for CIMA papers (if required) following the exam sitting for those who failed, to aid them pass the resit exams in March/September so as to continue their progression.

These resit sessions are free of charge if an 80% attendance level has been maintained and the resit exam has been booked.

Course modules

There are five levels in CIMA’s syllabus. Exemptions are available at the discretion

of CIMA. Leicester Business School expects to offer classes according to the following course:

• CO1 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
• CO2 Fundamentals of Management Accounting
• CO3 Fundamentals of Business Mathematics
• CO5 Fundamentals of Business Economics
• CO4 Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Law

Operational level

• P1 Performance Operations
• E1 Enterprise Operations
• F1 Financial Operations

Management level

• P2 Performance Management
• E2 Enterprise Management
• F2 Financial Management

Strategic level

• P3 Performance Strategy
• E3 Enterprise Strategy
• F3 Financial Strategy

CIMA T4 Part B – Case study

The final paper involves an exam based on a case study set in a simulated business context of one or more fictional organisations. The context in case materials is based on a real business or industry.

Academic expertise

Aaron Toogood BSc MSc(Tech) GradDip(Fin) PGCHE ACMA CGMA
6 years accountancy teaching experience, short-listed for CIMA Tutor of the Year and PQ tutor of the year, Marking Team leader for ACCA and has marked for CIMA exams. Aaron has also had 3 articles published in CIMA’s student magazine, ‘Financial Management’.

Linda Ralphs MAAT ACMA CGMA
10 years accountancy teaching experience, 3 years as a content specialist for Kaplan Financial, marker for ACCA.

Darren Sparkes BA(Hons) MSc PGCHE ACMA CGMA
Twice nominated as PQ Tutor of the year, over 10 years accountancy teaching experience, marker for ACCA. Darren has also had numerous publications in accountancy student magazines.

Tom Webster BA(Hons) PGCHE ACMA CGMA
5 years accountancy teaching experience, marker for ACCA.

Clare Robertson BA (Hons) ACMA CGMA
Over 15 years accountancy teaching experience.

Rachel English FMAAT FCCA MSc PGCHE
4 years accountancy teaching experience, marker for ACCA.

Sample timetable

Please note an update to the timetable:

F2 now Tuesday 5-7pm, F1 now Tuesday 7-9pm (F1 and F2 have swapped)

Day Time Hrs/wk Weeks Start Date C1 Mon 6pm 3 12 06/01/2014 C2 Tue 5pm 2 25 10/09/2013 C3 Thu 6pm 3 12 09/01/2014 C4 Mon 6pm 3 12 09/09/2013 C5 Thu 6pm 3 12 12/09/2013
November Exams May Exams Mon Tue Wed Thu Mon Wed Thu Operational E1 F1 P1 Management Tue E2 P2 F2 Strategic F3 P3 E3

All courses run from 5 – 9pm with the courses leading up to the November Exams beginning in the week commencing 2nd September, 2013 and those for the May exams in the week commencing 17th February, 2014. T4 is a sequence of Saturdays (9am – 3pm) leading up to the May exam:

5th April, 2014
12th April, 2014
26th April, 2014
3rd May, 2014
10th May, 2014

Graduate careers

You could take up various accounting positions in business, either partly or fully qualified.

Fees and funding

The all inclusive course fees for each paper for 2013/2014 are:

• Certificate level £350
• Operational/Management level £400
• Strategic level £450
• T4 £795
• Exam resit days £95 (if criteria for free entry are not met)

The fee includes the official CIMA study text and revision kit. Fees may be paid in instalments by direct debit and arrangements can be made at enrolment.
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