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CIMA, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants is the only professional body delivering an employer driven qualification for business in the public and private sectors. We are the voice of over 164,000 members and students in 161 countries and no other professional accountancy qualification is as relevant to business or as internationally respected as fit for purpose.
CIMA Chartered Management Accountants have a unique combination of skills and are geared towards assessing business possibilities, grasping opportunities and shaping the future of organisations. They have the strategic insight to assess risk and make vital business decisions based on a robust understanding of the business environment. Combining a high level of financial and management expertise with excellent business acumen and decision-making skills, the CIMA Chartered Management Accountant are great communicators who can make sense of the figures for the future of the business.
That is why CIMA Chartered Management Accountants have the opportunity to move around the business and are qualified to engage in a wide variety of activities including outsourcing activities. CIMA also leads the profession in developing ethical and technical best practice. Our advice, technical research and support programmes create value for employers.
CIMA is delighted to be a part of the FT Global Outsourcing and Offshoring Conference 2009.
For more than 40 years, Cranfield School of Management has been helping individuals and businesses across the world learn and succeed by transforming knowledge into action.
The school brings together a range of management disciplines through a significant portfolio of activities that includes research and consultancy, postgraduate masters and doctoral programmes, executive development courses, conferences and customised programmes. Our MBA, executive education and doctoral programmes are all highly ranked in the major league tables.
One of our key strengths is our faculty, amongst the largest and most diverse of any business school in Europe. Most have managerial experience, a strength reinforced by close links with outside organisations through consultancy and research. A combination of rigorous research and inspirational teaching is at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to creating new management thinking, improving business performance and inspiring the next generation of business leaders. We work to change the lives of our students and executives by encouraging innovation and creative thinking as well as a drive to succeed and make a real impact on their organisations.
By continually innovating and developing we remain at the forefront of management education and business around the world.
All who study here become part of the Cranfield community for life. With over 12,000 alumni in more than 120 countries - it is a truly international and very powerful network of professionals, many of whom are leading figures in business and wider society.
Whatever your interest, whether it be as a potential student, corporate client or research collaborator, you will find a warm welcome at Cranfield
fDi Intelligence is a specialist division of the Financial Times Ltd established to provide leading industry insight into globalisation with a portfolio of world class products, services and business tools that allow both companies and economic development organisations to make informed decisions regarding foreign direct investment. www.fdiintelligence.com
GMB (GMB Publishing Ltd) publishes the Global Market Briefings series of books and management reports and the GMB Research on-line subscription service. GMB's publications and research focus on the mechanics of business engagement in emerging and pre-emerging markets around the world, covering:
· Legal and regulatory environments: commercial law, tax and accounting, banking and finance, corporate governance, intellectual property, insurance law, privatisation and M&A, etc.
· The economic and business environment: market potential, opportunities for inward investment and trade, country risk analysis, human resources, etc.
· Major relevant industry sectors, by country: automotive, property, etc.
· Key issues driving global investment and business development: corporate governance, risk, climate change, WTO, outsourcing, etc.
GMB's books, reports and online research are aimed at a broad international audience of managers in multinational companies, professional advisers, bankers, lawyers, investors, analysts, researchers and entrepreneurs engaged in international business and investment.
The NOA is the UK's only outsourcing trade association. Advocating best practice, the NOA represents outsourcing end users, vendors and other companies which support outsourcing, such as legal firms, consultancies and HR. The NOA is involved in research, events, education and public affairs. The vast quantity information that the NOA has collected is referred to as the BOOK (the Body Of Outsourcing Knowledge).
www.noa.co.uk
Outsource magazine is the only
Produced on a quarterly basis in partnership with the NOA (National Outsourcing Association). www.noa.co.uk and the www.outsourcingprofessional.org , the magazine provides a platform for suppliers and providers from all over the world to get their product or service into the hands of key decision makers and end users.
SharedXpertise is an independent, global membership-based community of professionals focused on transforming business processes and functions. We collect, share and advance peer-to-peer knowledge of business process transformation amongst our buyer/practitioner and provider members through our magazines (HRO Europe, FAO Today, The CRO), our events (FAO Summit Europe and HRO World Summit Europe) and the Associations (HROA, CROA and FAOA) that we manage.
