Advantages: Great way into finance or management Disadvantages: Hard work, takes a long time
can add the letters ACMA after your name. If you can obtain a further three years high level(forming company strategy) you can apply for fellowship and get the letters FCMA after your name.
During qualification you can probably work as an assistant account which has salaries from 16,000gdp upwards(depending on other factors). Gradually as you gain experience and qualifications this increases. It takes a minimium three years to qualify(depending on progress with the exams and suitability of work experience). Once qualified there are many possible careers open. However examples of work are an analyst, a financial controller or general management. There really is no upper limit to salary as many who sit on the boards of large companies have CIMA qualifications.
After you have qualified you will have a broad understanding ...
Advantages: Very comprehensive Disadvantages: Might be better in binder format ,not hardback
The EssentialManagers Manual really is essential. It is written by Robert Heller and Tim Hindle (edited by David Tombesi-Walton) and published by DK.
The vital information in the book is broken down into logical sections and the information is presented coherently and understandably.
The introduction sets the tone for the whole book. "In today's fast-moving business word," it warns, "organisations are constantly evolving, and the role of the manager is becoming ever more diverse."
That's very true. And some managers sink under the rapidly rising waters of change. This book can be described either as a lifeboat or at the very least a floatation device for those struggling to keep their head above the murky waters and uncharted depths of "corporate change."
The book is over 860 pages long and is designed as a comprehensive ...
Advantages: Excellent plain english writing, with bullet points and exam tips Disadvantages: All the figures are in $
Cambridge
AS Level and A Level Accounting.
Harold Randall
Cambridge University Press 2005
I have never been good with figures. Well actually, I am hopeless; so during my second degree programme, Contact Centre Management, (the first was BSc Global Futures and Health Studies which involved no finance) the feel of dread and terror that I would have to study accounts and managementaccounts in semester 2 year 2 was overwhelming.
During the first couple of weeks of starting the module, I was wondering around a bookshop looking for inspiration to help to get me though this section of the course. At one point, sitting on a bookshop floor with half a dozen finance books around me wondering what I was doing and seriously, thinking of quitting the course due to finance. I could not understand what the selected course books and lecturer ...
