Is cima useful or not? ! ! ! ! ! ! I'm completely lost. .....

In fact, when we are struggling to choose CIMA or CPA, we must first understand the direction and focus of the two.

CIMA is management accounting, while CPA is more about auditing and financial accounting, with very different directions.

However, for freshmen, perhaps the understanding of management accounting and financial accounting is not so thorough.

Then let's make it simple and analyze it from "whether it is useful or not". In fact, "useful" is nothing more than two aspects, 1, salary; 2. location.

Let's look at CIMA first.

CIMA studies management accounting, so it is different from general financial accounting. Not limited to accounting content, it covers all aspects of business knowledge and skills such as management, strategy, market, human resources and information systems. It can not only pay attention to the competition in enterprise strategic management, but also be based on strategic management accounting.

If you don't quite understand the above, let me get this straight. Do you want to be a senior decision manager? Do you want to be an international business elite?

Look at this information: According to Robert Half, a famous financial headhunter, most CIMA members hold senior management positions such as directors, managers, CFO and CEO in large enterprises.

Attached below is the new outline of 2065 438+07 CIMA. It should be clearer to know the specific subject content.

In China, CIMA has more than 400 cooperative employer enterprises, including multinational enterprises, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, such as Coca-Cola, IBM, Unilever, McDonald's, Tencent, ZTE, CNOOC and the four major accounting firms. What is a cooperative employer enterprise? It means that enterprises will not only give priority to CIMA members and students when recruiting employees, but some enterprises will also embed CIMA certification system into their management trainee training programs.

After talking about ability training and future career development direction, let's talk about salary.

According to the data from July 2065438 to July 2006, the average annual salary of CIMA members in China reached 833,828 RMB, and the average annual salary of students was as high as 450,857 RMB.

Next, certified public accountants

A certified public accountant refers to a person who has obtained a certificate of certified public accountant and practices in an accounting firm. The English full name is certified public accountant, or CPA for short. Certified public accountant refers to a professional engaged in social audit/intermediary audit/independent audit. Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is the only officially recognized CPA qualification in China, and it is also the only professional qualification with signature right.

Speaking of which, the question is coming. Have you decided to enter the auditing industry? Have you decided to work in an accounting firm after graduation?

The most important reason why many people choose certified public accountants is that certified public accountants have the right to sign, but in fact, accounting firms do not need many certified public accountants, just a few. How many accounting statements can be audited in a year? And even if you sign it, even the seniors have no right to sign it. If you want to sign, you'd better stay for a few more years.

In fact, CPA has been flooded in the past two years. The data shows that about half of CPA holders have not invested in front-line audit positions. ?

On the other hand, in order to control the passing rate, domestic certified public accountants blindly deviate from the topic instead of paying more attention to the topic of examination ability, which I think is really undesirable.

In addition, the topic mentioned whether CIMA is more convenient to go abroad. The answer is yes.

CIMA has a history of nearly 65,438+000 years and enjoys a high reputation all over the world. The World Bank lists CIMA as the global authority of management accounting, and regards CIMA as the recommended qualification of internal financial accountants of the World Bank.

In addition, in 20 12, CIMA and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants introduced a new title CGMA, a global chartered management accountant. As long as you pass the CIMA exam, submit relevant materials and apply to become a CIMA member, you can also get the CGMA title.

As for the specific benefits, I will say two things:

CGMA qualification exemption subjects include Australian CPA, Canadian Institute of Management Accountants and other qualifications.

The British government's agency in charge of immigration qualification rated CGMA vocational qualification as a master's degree, and when applying for "high-tech immigration project", you can get 35 points.

You can check the rest in CIMA official website.

Having said that, in fact, the subject must first think clearly about his future career development direction.

When you want to know which direction you want to focus on and which certificate you want to take, the answer is self-evident.

I just saw this problem recently, and maybe the subject found his own direction.

However, for those young people who have just entered the university, it may have certain reference function.