Keeping a tab on the world of business Dec-Jan 2013
Vol V
Message from Message from Arati ...................1 Recap ......................................... 2 • MESANA Board Launch • Cost Congress 2012 • People Matter Round Table • CIMA partners with Vidya Vikas Mandal • Revision Lectures • 54th National Cost Convention 2013 • CIMA Convocation 2013
Up Next .................................... 4 • Referral Campaign • CIMA Global Business Challenge 2013
Member Speak ......................... 6 Latest Vacancies on CIMA MYJOBS .....................................8 Important Dates ..................... 8 CIMA Applause – November 2012 (PC Based) ........................ 9 New Members – NovemberDecember 2012 ........................ 9
Arati Porwal
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The year 2012 was a milestone year for CIMA. We ended the year with 29,332 new students joining CIMA around the world and over 5700 achieving membership.
Dear members of the CIMA community, On behalf of the CIMA India Team, wish you all a Happy New Year ! The year 2012 was a milestone year for CIMA. We ended the year with 29,332 new students joining CIMA around the world and over 5700 achieving membership. The joint venture with AICPA , announced in January 2012, saw over 35,000 AICPA members sign up for the CGMA designation, making it the only truly global qualification in management accounting.
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We also supported the partners with quality Train-the-trainer programmes so that they could up the quality of tuition available to our students. These measures have yielded good results and we see significant improvement in pass percentages. We hope our students have found these measures useful. Your feedback on this will be important to us to improve.
The year 2012, also saw a record number of events being hosted by CIMA, individually or in partnership. We engaged industry leaders and members in discussions about issues relevant to business. These events and our activities The growth of the CIMA community is a resulted in a 50% increase in coverage testimonial to the relevance of the CIMA value of CIMA in the national and qualification and the increasing need for regional press, over the previous year. It management accounting skills in also helped us to add an Indian touch to business, despite the global economic CIMA's repository of thought leadership. environment. Not surprising therefore, that we saw over 100 job positions being In 2013, we continue our journey with advertised on CIMA My Jobs, from India the aim to increase CIMA's profile in alone, in 2012. Over 1300 new students India, support our students and increase membership value for our members. joined CIMA in India in 2012 and the student and member satisfaction index Your support, as always, is very recorded an increase over the previous important to us. We look forward to year. In 2012, we put together a number traveling with you on the road ahead. of measures to support our students to progress through the CIMA qualification. Apart from a continuation of revision lectures, we added over 15 tuition partners across the country in the year.
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