A management accountant applies his or her professional knowledge and skill in the preparation and presentation of financial and other decision oriented information in such a way as to assist management in the formulation of policies and in the planning and control of the operation of the undertaking.

Becoming a Certified Management Accountant will equip you to meet the challenges of fast moving and exciting global world. CMAs can combine and apply accounting expertise and acumen to the changing management practices in a wide array of business functions.

The Certified Management Accountant program from the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Australia (ICMA) is exactly designed to help you upgrade your professional skills. Popularly coming to be known as 'The CFO Program' amongst the senior professional accounting fraternity in India, since its inception in August 2004, it has attracted a very rich profile of participants not just from within the country, but also from the Middle-east, Africa, and other South-east Asian countries.

The course attracts participants from diverse industries. Our last symposium concluded recently in August 2008 and was attended by senior professionals from companies that included Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Emirates Airlines, Toshiba Embedded Software and Muscat Insurance Services among others. Some of the companies that have been represented in the past programs include Emirates Airlines, Carborundum Universal, Bharat Shell Limited, DSP Merrill Lynch Indian Petrochemicals Corporation, Colgate Palmolive, ABB Industries Dubai, TVS Sundaram Fasteners, Reliance Industries, NMIMS, NITIE, CavinKare, Reliance Infocomm, Gillette India, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Shoppers' Stop, Eureka Forbes, AT Kearney, Airport Authority of India, Indian Oil Corporation, GAIL (India) Ltd., Electrolux, Citizen Cooperative Bank and Honeywell among others. A large number of practising Chartered Accountants have also attended this intensive course.