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New Swedish Delivery Partner for FMFB
25 March 2011
Metapraxis is delighted to confirm that it now has a Swedish FMFB delivery partner for the Corporate and Further education markets.
With sites in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Malmo, IHM is one of Sweden's leading business schools and has trained more than 30,000 business professionals over the last 40 years. Speaking about this development, Alf Henricsson of Eskadern, Metapraxis's partner in Sweden, commented, "This represents a breakthrough for the FMFB project in the Swedish market. We are delighted to be working with IHM to support their innovative and customised business programmes."
Two New Delivery Partners for FMFB
25 March 2011
Metapraxis is delighted to confirm that it now has 2 more FMFB delivery partners for the Corporate and Further education markets.
Based in the West Midlands, Sterling Power Training (SPT) provides high quality training and support services to industry and commerce. SPT are leading experts in the field of power engineering training and are able to offer a wide range of standard and bespoke training courses for craftsmen, technicians and engineers as well as non-electrical and non-technical personnel.
Walsall College provides education and training to young people and adults, delivered both at the College campuses and onsite in the workplace. Walsall's College, the Wisemore Campus, offers world class facilities and provides students with an exceptional learning environment.
Kaplan Financial Rolls Out the FMFB Course
20 October 2010
Kaplan clients and students can buy each of these courses for the special discounted price of £75 plus VAT for each of the parts. This includes access to elearning resources for 6 months, plus a copy of the book to accompany the series Financial Management for Business: Cracking the Hidden Code by Robert Bittlestone (published by Cambridge University Press).
An Online Assessment certified by CIMA is also available at an additional cost of £25 + VAT per part, or £40 + VAT for a combined assessment but is not included in the course itself and is an optional extra purchase.
If you are a Kaplan student and you would like to take advantage of this offer click here.
Free Trial of the Simulation Models
8 October 2010
Free trial of the simulation models if you purchase your copy of Financial Management for Business: Cracking the Hidden Code between 11 October 2010 and 30 November 2010.
Metapraxis Secure Top Tier Higher Learning Partners
1 October 2010
Metapraxis secure top tier higher learning partners to further the development and delivery of the Financial Management for Business Course.
Metapraxis today announce agreements with three Higher Education providers: Kaplan Financial, Pearson Education and BPP, to help develop and deliver the FMFB course for the Corporate and Education markets.
Commenting on the partnerships, Simon Bittlestone, Head of Commercial Development at Metapraxis said:
"I am delighted that we are working with such prestigious and experienced partners in the Higher Education market. While Metapraxis and CIMA have developed the FMFB course, our intention was never to deliver it ourselves in the long term. Kaplan, Pearson and BPP will clearly take us to the next level of professional training delivery and will provide invaluable support on the ongoing development of the course."
Kaplan Financial's mission is to help individuals achieve their educational and career goals. Kaplan and Metapraxis are working together to deliver the FMFB course to corporate customers.
Pearson is the world's leading education company. Metapraxis and Pearson Education have an agreement in place to explore the development of FMFB for higher education, and the professional markets, with a view to delivery in 2011/12.
BPP is a market leading company with the expertise and experience to develop careers. BPP and Metapraxis are working together to deliver the FMFB course to corporate customers.
Sussex University wins the CIMA Global Business Flight Simulator Tournament in Kuala Lumpur
6 August 2010
"Chameleon Consulting", the successful team made up of four Sussex University students, saw off competition from thirteen other countries around the world to pay the highest dividend to their shareholders during the one year trading simulation.
Jonathan Gaiger, Lee Edwards, Claire Harrison and Matthew Mammana, guided by their tutor David Green, outmanoeuvred international competition from Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Ireland, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, in a challenge that showed the global applicability of the FMFB simulation models. The teams raised capital to create a retail operation, buying in stock, employing sales people, setting their product margin and investing in machinery. The businesses then competed in a simulated market place, which saw several bankruptcies before Sussex University emerged to victorious, employing just-in-time stock control to ensure they had the cash to turn undistributed profits into shareholder dividend.
Financial Management for Business to be published by Cambridge University Press
23 June 2010
The book that will accompany the online business finance course, Financial Management for Business: Cracking the Hidden Code will be published by Cambridge University Press in September 2010.
Cambridge University Press (CUP) today become the latest in a series of high profile partners to become involved in the Financial Management for Business project. Joining the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS), CUP will help develop and publish the text that will accompany the online models and tests, completing the course package for the end user. The book will come with a free trial of the web-based models for an initial period and will be available to purchase from 07 October 2010, directly from CUP, Metapraxis or Amazon. Commenting on CUP's decision to become involved, Robert Bittlestone, Chairman of Metapraxis Ltd and author of Financial Management for Business: Cracking the Hidden Code said:
"I am delighted that we have CUP on board at this stage of the project. They will not only help create a hugely professional hardback book to accompany the course, but also help to heighten the course brand within the higher education market."
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Delegates Take Part in an FMFB Top Team Seminar
15 June 2010
In a fast paced and highly competitive Top Team Seminar, delegates from HSBC and Royal London Asset Management pitted their commercial aptitude in the FMFB competitive challenge, with HSBC emerging victorious.
After the event, delegates commented:
"If I took this course I would greatly improve my knowledge of working capital, cashflow and financial analysis."
"It's very different and unique - I liked it a lot."
"It would be great to apply this to some of our own clients."
To find out more about the FMFB course and the Top Team Seminars click here.
A Leading Technology Company Signs Up to the New FMFB Course
23 February 2010
Global flash memory chipmaker Numonyx BV today becomes the first major industrial corporation to sign up for the new CIMA certified FMFB course. Numonyx set out to find a business finance course that would provide their managers with a more intuitive understanding of business and felt that the FMFB fast-track financial qualification will provide exactly that.
Glen Hawk, VP of the Numonyx Embedded Business Group in California comments:
"This new course provides a fantastic combination of documentation, on-line simulation and face-to-face presentation with great perspective. Thank you for an experience I will never forget!"
The Numonyx course was commissioned by Geneva-based CFO Ken Lever who comments:
"Greater awareness of the drivers of cash flow in a business equips all managers to better understand how value can be created for shareholders over the long term. This interactive and innovative way of demonstrating the cash flow drivers and the impact on business value is a great step forward to improving understanding of business financial management."
FMFB Top Team Seminar at the Chartered Institute for IT
23 February 2010
In the FMFB competitive challenge at a Top Team Seminar at BCS, delegates from CIMA, Financial Information Consultants, Kaplan Financial, PWC and Restoration Partners competed in the race to pay the highest dividend, with the Kaplan Financial/Restoration Partners team edging victory in the last week of trading.
After the event, delegates commented:
"This course is a revelation in financial understanding."
"It's a great approach to learning - it's fun, it works really well, it's engaging and it leaves you wanting to go back and get it right."
To find out more about the FMFB course and the Top Team Seminars click here.
