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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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  • Managing the Trust P&L: A toolkit for boards

    This toolkit offers board level professionals with a greater understanding of how trust fits into their business model. The tool helps board members and C-suite professionals to look at trust in a systematic way that relates to their organisation.

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  • CGMA Competency Framework guide: generate value for long-term success

    The CGMA Competency Framework can help you equip your finance function with skills and competencies needed for sustainable success. You can use the Competency Framework to fulfil many activities as you build the human capital of your organisation, with an emphasis on the following areas: Attraction and recruitment, Performance management, Learning and development.

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  • Purpose Beyond Profit: The Value of Value - Board-level Insights

    Deriving insights from a survey of executives across the globe, this report outlines trends and challenges in measuring, disclosing, and understanding the value that companies create. Executives globally agree on the increasing benefit of understanding and communicating the value creation potential of their organisations.

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  • Talent - Improving government performance through effective talent management

    Most local government organisations believe their talent-management strategies are well defined and that they have a solid understanding of their current skills shortages and future needs. However, almost half are struggling to compete for talent with their private-sector rivals. How do local governments Find, Retain, and Sustain talent?

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  • Sustainable Development Goals and the role of the accountant

    Business has a fundamental role to play in delivering against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requirements. Contributions will include working with stakeholders, creating jobs, enabling access to healthcare, innovating new technologies and leading the development and responsible use of resources like energy and water.

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  • Business Resilience: Tools for preparing to reopen businesses

    Reallocating priorities, creating a response plan, mapping out scenarios – here’s all you need to consider before you reopen your business and the tools to help you do it.

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  • Transformation - Improving government performance

    This joint report by CIMA and CIPFA (the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy) highlights case studies of transformation initiatives from around the world, identifying common barriers, such as, ‘doing more with less’, and the critical success factors which must be addressed.

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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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Local perspectives - South East Asia

The ever-changing global business environment affects regions in different ways. CIMA offices in South East Asia have conducted workshops and roundtables to discuss the emerging issues facing business to gather a local perspective and how these should be addressed.

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2014 lectures: Tomorrow's Generation

Held on 3 March 2013, this CIMA and Tomorrow's Company lecture discussed the youth unemployment / talent gap solution.

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Climate change calls for strategic change

CIMA and its members are well positioned to help ensure that organisations both survive, and are successful, in light of climate change issues.

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SLAS 37: Intangible assets

We frequently come across resources which have no physical substance but seemingly create value to entities.

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How management accounting delivers long term focus

Van den Udenhout (VdU) is a large Dutch group of car dealers. The managing director (MD) was concerned that although VdU performed quite well in terms of profits, sales volume and customer satisfaction, he believed the basis for future performance was very weak and was vulnerable to external circumstances, such as the popularity of its models and economic circumstances. The MD had the ambition to change the managers’ and employees’ focus on the dealership’s most important asset – its network of customer relations.

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Applying the controllability principle and measuring divisional performance in UK companies

The choice of appropriate measures of divisional managerial performance has been widely debated in management accounting literature.

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Integrating management accounting systems in mergers and acquisitions

The high rate of merger and acquisition (M&A) failures, the dearth of research and the lack of explanation of the role of the management accountants in M&A integration process raises some important questions for senior financial managers charged with the responsibility of integrating the various functions and tasks inherent in the MAS integration process.

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Fact or fiction? The independent business partner: Asia

This discussion paper outlines how finance professionals need to move from being the co-pilot into the driver's seat across the Asia region, by employing additional skills and tools. Organisations need to consider not only how they identify talent, from a competitive pool, but how they build capacity, with support as necessary from educators, professional bodies and government agencies.

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Governmental financial resilience under austerity: English local authorities

The increased uncertainty, volatility and complexity arising from the economic crisis and the context of austerity require governments to put greater emphasis on flexibility, adaptability and a long-term perspective in their financial management.

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Managing inter-firm interdependencies in R&D investment

This report illustrates how interdependent R&D investments may be coordinated across the boundaries of competing firms. If managerial accountants are to estimate accurately the value of R&D investments in ecosystems of innovation, an understanding of such information sharing arrangements is crucial.

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