Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

01 March 2007

CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) will launch the CIMA Excellence in Leadership series on 6 March. The series consists of quarterly reports and related conferences and has been created by CIMA’s Centre of Excellence to focus on core strategic and business issues following in-depth research with the CIMA membership and corporate partners. Aimed at top-level business leaders and senior management accountants, the inaugural report focuses on Business Process Outsourcing and will be published on 6 March, with the related conference scheduled to take place on 20 March.

Articles in the report have been penned by CIMA technical specialists and business leaders, including Zarin Patel, Group Finance Director at the BBC, who offers her view on how best to switch over to outsourcing, Wayne Lewis, CFO at Zurich Global UK, who provides a case study on change management and financial strategy and Dr Martin Fahy, Director of Development, CIMA Asia Pacific, who takes a look at the growing trend for leading firms to move beyond the traditional Finance and Accounting Outsourcing towards the more sophisticated role of Knowledge Process Outsourcing.

The ensuing Business Process Outsourcing conference programme includes a line-up of senior business leaders including Graham Pascoe, Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tom Fussell, Deputy Group Financial Controller at the BBC, Paul Blackburn, SVP Financial Controller at GlaxoSmithKline and Annie Guerard, Financial Director at Diesel. Robin Barrett, former CIO at American Express will be chairing the conference topics, which will include ‘BPO – a risky business?’, ‘Why F&A should lead the way for outsourcing’ and ‘Back to basics: the dos and don’ts when preparing to find a BPO partner’. For more information see http://www.cpd-excellence.com/. 

Rick Sturge, Director of Employers and Strategic Development at CIMA, will be opening the BPO conference, and says:

“The Excellence in Leadership series has been created as a key benefit to CIMA members and will offer them an insight into their peers’ thoughts on topics and issues at the forefront of the financial business agenda. Business Process Outsourcing is one such topic, and has had a seismic impact on the finance function worldwide. It is a testament to CIMA that such a high calibre of business personnel have contributed to today’s report and will be speaking at the conference.”

ENDS

For further information, please contact:
Katie Scott
Senior Press Officer, CIMA
+44 (0) 20 8849 2347
Katie.Scott@cimaglobal.com

Notes to editors

1. CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) is the only international accountancy body with a sole focus on business.  It is a world leading professional institute that offers an internationally recognised qualification in management accountancy, focusing on accounting in business, in both the private and public sectors. CIMA is the voice of over 158,000 members and students in 161 countries and is responsible for the education and training of management accountants who work in industry, commerce and not-for-profit and has more members in the public sector than any other UK based body.  CIMA prides itself on the commercial relevance of its syllabus, which is in tune with the activities of high performance organisations, and evolves continually to reflect the latest developments in global business.  It is committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional standards of members and students, and to maintaining public confidence in management accountancy.  For more information about CIMA, please visit www.cimaglobal.com.
2. CIMA is producing the CIMA Excellence in Leadership series in partnership with SPG Media Group Plc. SPG Media Group Plc is an international B2B company based in Paddington, London with offices in Nottingham, UK and Hyderabad, India. SPG Media provides world-class publications, websites, summits and conferences that deliver quality international business and industry information to senior executives and key decision-making audiences from around the world. The company has over 20 websites, numerous publications and produces in excess of 50 business events per annum for key industry sectors.
   

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