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Finance Book Reinforces Lessons Learnt from Crisis
13 October 2010, CFO Innovation Asia
A new business finance book, designed to reinforce the lessons learnt from the financial crisis that caused the worst recession since the 1930s, has been launched by Cambridge University Press, CIMA and Metapraxis …more
Financial Management - Cracking The Code For SMEs
12 October 2010, Fresh Business Thinking
If there's one thing that small businesses learned in the credit crunch, it's that good financial management is essential to running a successful business. Unable to rely on previously free-flowing sources of credit, SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises), like consumers, have had to relearn some skills that were perhaps forgotten during the heady boom years - austerity, cash and capital are the new watchwords …more
Press Release: Launch of Financial Management For Business Cambridge University Press Book
11 October 2010, London
Cambridge University Press, CIMA and Metapraxis, the business analysis consultancy, today announce the launch of a new business finance book, designed to reinforce the lessons learnt from the financial crisis that caused the worst recession since the 1930s. Written by Robert Bittlestone (Chairman of Metapraxis and author of the award-winning CUP book Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca), the new book Financial Management for Business: Cracking the Hidden Code represents a breakthrough approach to business education. Set against the gripping story of Luca Pacioli's research into the 'Hidden Code' of book-keeping that transformed medieval business and remains at the heart of every modern enterprise, the book presents an innovative step-by-step model that will transform readers' understanding of financial management …more
Leading technology company pioneers radical new finance course
23 February 2010, London, Geneva
London, Geneva, Milan and Folsom, California - Feb 23 2010. Global flash memory chipmaker Numonyx BV is the first major industrial corporation to sign up for the new CIMA Financial Management for Business course. This radical new management training course uses Internet-based simulation models to provide an intuitive understanding of business and delivers a fast-track financial qualification for non-financial managers …more
CIMA launches new IT-driven short course in business
11 March 2009, Finance Week
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has devised a course which enables financial and non-financial professionals the chance to run a virtual business.
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has devised a course which enables financial and non-financial professionals the chance to run a virtual business. Increased financial pressures mean it is important for everyone involved with a business to get to grips with the inner workings of their company's finances, so may well be useful for managers and other employees …more
Business simulator takes off
26 March 2008, Financial Director, Robert Bruce
Visualisation techniques will help accountants and non-financial staff to develop an intuitive understanding of the essentials of business.
"Having fun and learning the fundamental principles of accountancy are rarely concepts which appear in the same sentence. Certainly my early days at the tutors were far from fun. Exasperation on both sides was the norm. The only fun came when one tutor taught an entire hour of tax law while impersonating WC Fields, the misanthropic Hollywood comedian of the 1930s. That tutor went on to become chairman of the Conservative party." …more
