16 February 2005
Applicable to all 10 Professional papers - 20 minutes of reading time will be added to the normal examination time for all 10 professional examination papers.
During the 20 minutes students can:
However, students will not be allowed to:
Failure to comply with these rules will be considered as a serious breach of the examination regulations.
The written component for each examination will remain at 3 hours’ duration.
Applicable to all 10 Professional papers. To assist students in managing time during examinations - with strong evidence that poor time management in past examinations has been a major detriment to success - indicative time allocations will be included at the beginning of each section of the examination paper.
Applicable to all 10 Professional papers. The REQUIREMENTS for questions in all 10 professional examination papers will be contained within a ‘box’. Students are strongly advised to read the requirements before reading the details of each question.
Morning Examinations
Students will:
The examination will finish at 12:30
Afternoon Examinations
Students will:
The examination will finish at 17:00
There may be some local variations in the above times for non-UK centres.
Robert Jelly
Director of Education
14th February 2004
CIMA members are Accountants in Business. We represent financial managers and accountants who work in industry, commerce, not-for-profit and public sector organisations. Our key activities are related to Business Strategy, Information Strategy and Finance Strategy. CIMA members are not trained in audit.
CIMA's focus is to qualify students, support members and employers, and protect the public interest. We represent the voice of over 77,000 students and 60,000 members in 154 countries.
CIMA's focus on management functions makes us unique, and we are internationally recognised as offering the financial qualification for business.
CIMA is 'rapidly becoming the chartered qualification of choice' according to recent independent research*, and we work with leading employers in the UK and around the world to train and qualify financial managers. We pride ourselves on the commercial relevance of our syllabus, which is continually enhanced to reflect the latest developments in business. In an age of growing globalisation and intensified competition, the Chartered Management Accountant is fully prepared to meet the need for timely and accurate financial information.
Our members and students work across all business sectors at all levels throughout the world, demonstrating the flexibility of the qualification.
