Congratulations Himself

After many, many, many years of evening class study (much of it self-funded) the boy has passed his final Charted Institute of Management Accountancy (CIMA) exam!

Now he just has to submit a “career profile”…

To qualify as a Chartered Management Accountant you must:

• complete the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting or another exempting qualification
• complete the nine exams from the CIMA Professional Qualification
• gain three years relevant practical experience and send your ‘Career Profile’ to us for approval
• pass the Test of Professional Competence in Management Accounting (TOPCIMA).

I am very proud of him.  And very relieved that he shouldn’t ever have to sit another exam – few people suffer with such nerves!

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Good Luck Himself

OK, rather overactive on the blogging front this morning, but final post for the day….

Good luck to Himself who finishes at a local telecomms manufacturer today.

Bit of back plot for you. (I didn’t tell you at the time because I thought you’d be too worried.)

• Just before we bought the new house he applied for a sideways move from logistics to accounts at a local telecomms manufacturer (he’s been studying for CIMA for 2 years already).
• Just after we got the new house, a local telecomms manufacturer told him that in his new department four out of four jobs were at risk of redundancy.
• He’d already survived three rounds of redundancy in five years at a local telecomms manufacturer so it had to happen sooner or later.
• He applied for another job in accounts online.
• The post was already filled but the agency put him forward for a similar job with the same employer.
• He got the job, it was on less money, but offered to pay for the CIMA and give study leave.
• On the same day a local telecomms manufacturer said they’d made a mistake and weren’t going to make him redundant after all.
• On the same day he got his Year II CIMA results back and had passed with flying colours.
• The new employer offered him a bit more money.
• He handed in his notice to a local telecomms manufacturer .

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