Certified Management Accountant - Part 1

Course Info

Length: 1 Week

City: Singapore

Type: In Classroom

Available Dates

  • Mar-31-2025

    Singapore

  • June-30-2025

    Singapore

  • Sep-29-2025

    Singapore

  • Dec-29-2025

    Singapore

Dates in Other Venues

  • Jan-20-2025

    Dubai

  • Feb-17-2025

    London

  • Mar-31-2025

    Istanbul

  • Mar-31-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Mar-31-2025

    Barcelona

  • Mar-31-2025

    Paris

  • Mar-31-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Mar-31-2025

    Dubai

  • Apr-21-2025

    London

  • May-19-2025

    Dubai

  • June-30-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • June-30-2025

    Istanbul

  • June-30-2025

    Barcelona

  • June-30-2025

    London

  • June-30-2025

    Amsterdam

  • June-30-2025

    Paris

  • July-21-2025

    Dubai

  • Aug-18-2025

    London

  • Sep-29-2025

    Paris

  • Sep-29-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Sep-29-2025

    Barcelona

  • Sep-29-2025

    Istanbul

  • Sep-29-2025

    Dubai

  • Sep-29-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Oct-20-2025

    London

  • Nov-17-2025

    Dubai

  • Dec-29-2025

    Barcelona

  • Dec-29-2025

    London

  • Dec-29-2025

    Istanbul

  • Dec-29-2025

    Paris

  • Dec-29-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Dec-29-2025

    Amsterdam

Course Details

Course Outline

5 days course

External Financial Reporting Decisions

 

  • Identifying types of financial statements and their purpose, application and components:
  • Balance sheet
  • Income statement 
  • Statement of changes in equity 
  • Statement of cash flows
  • Consolidated statements 
  • Integrated reporting  

  • Discussing the application and limitation of each financial statement 
  • Understanding the purpose and structure of integrated report 
  • Methods for valuating assets and liabilities 
  • Understanding the impact of equity transactions on capital, stock and revenues 
  • The principles of revenue recognition 
  • Strategies to measure income and define gains and losses 
  • Differentiating between U.S, GAAP and IFRS accounting standards

Planning, Budgeting, & Forecasting

 

  • The process and techniques for strategic planning 
  • Characteristics of successful strategic planning process 
  • Defining budgeting and its key related terms
  • Characteristics of successful budgeting process 

  • Understanding various forecasting techniques:
  • Regression analysis 
  • Learning curve analysis 
  • Expected value 

  • Understanding different budgeting methods: 
  • Annual business plan 
  • Project budgeting 
  • Activity-based budgeting 
  • Zero-based budgeting 
  • Continuous budgets 
  • Flexible budgeting 

  • Understanding how to plan for annual profit 
  • Annual profit plan and supporting schedules 

Performance Management 

  • Techniques for measuring cost and variation: 
  • Actual vs. planned results 
  • Flexible budgets for performance analysis 
  • Expectation management 
  • Standards cost systems
  • Standard cost expectations for variation analysis 


  • Recognizing types of responsibility centers 
  • Techniques for identifying organizational segments for reporting 

  • Methods to measure performance:
  • Product profitability analysis
  • Business unit profitability 
  • Customer profitability analysis 
  • ROI 
  • Residual base issues
  • KPIs
  • Balanced scorecard 

Cost Management

  • Understanding the types of cost and cost behavior 

  • Understanding different costing systems:
  • Job order costing
  • Activity-based costing 
  • Life-cycle costing 

  • Understanding the components of overhead costs and how to determine them  
  • Exploring techniques to manage supply chain and resources
  • Exploring how to improve business process continuously 
  • Discussing best practice analysis for business process improvement

Internal Controls, Technology & Analytics

 

  • Understanding internal control risk and methods for testing 
  • Standards and regulations for internal control 

  • Exploring different system controls and security measures:
  • General accounting system controls
  • Application and transaction controls
  • Technology controls 
  • Backup controls 

  • Exploring different information systems:
  • Accounting information systems
  • Enterprise resource planning systems
  • Enterprise performance management systems 

  • Understanding data policies and procedures and techniques to manage data 
  • Discussing how to transform to technology-enabled finance and automation 
  • Understanding data analytics types and tools
  • Course recap & Evaluation