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CMA Board Report: an overview
The Board Report is the final evaluation stage of the Strategic Leadership Program (SLP). In small groups candidates demonstrate, both orally and through a written submission, their mastery of the knowledge and competencies they have acquired up to this point in their CMA education. This is accomplished through a large-scale integrative case study provided to candidates in the last few [...]
CMA Student Concerns about Practical Work Experience
Reading a CMA student blog recently, I saw the following question (or some derivative) posted several times. As this is obviously of some concern to our students I asked one of the CMA Programs Coordinators, Peter Ferguson, to write a response. QUESTION: I am thinking about taking the CMA Accelerated Program in January 2010. I have no practical accounting experience [...]
Registering for the CMA BC Strategic Leadership Program
We are often asked the question: How do I register for the CMA Strategic Leadership Program (SLP)? Since the SLP is the most critical element in shaping a CMA and distinguishing the CMA designation from the other accounting designations, we thought it would be a good idea to shed some light on the program and registration. The SLP is a two-year [...]
CMA / MBA Programs – Part 2
As mentioned in my previous blog on the CMA/MBA Programs, there seems to be some confusion as to how these programs are structured. Understandable. I’d outlined how the CMA/MBA Joint Programs work, and now I’ll outline the CMA/MBA Combined Program. First though, as a refresher, here are the current universities that CMA British Columbia partners with on the CMA/MBA programs: [...]
How do the CMA / MBA Programs Work? – Part 1
I often get asked how the CMA / MBA Joint and Combined Programs are structured. This is an understandably confusing subject since it appears that the words “Joint” and “Combined” are pretty similar in definition. Also, the name of these programs seems to imply that CMA British Columbia offers both the CMA designation and a MBA degree concurrently, which is [...]
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