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Performance management

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How to set the right performance targets: a 10 step target setting tool

This 10-step tool, based on research by the Cranfield School of Management, will help CGMA designation holders better understand and set performance management targets.

Tool Performance management Advanced

Improving decision making in organisations: Unlocking business intelligence

This report provides tools to improve accounting operations and acquire a greater competence in informed decision making.

Report Financial analysis Advanced

How to turn data into decisions

This primer provides an overview of how CGMA professionals can add value to the decision-making process in their organisation

Tool Information systems environment Advanced

Strategic Business Management From Planning to Performance

Gain a better understanding of the critical interplay between planning and performance with this helpful guide for financial managers in business, industry, and...

Publication Strategy Advanced

Presenting Financial Information with Impact

This course shows you how to present financial information with credibility and flair.

Course – Online Communication Foundational

An evaluation of Global Management Accounting Principles in the sustainability of a mechanised piggery

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relevance of Global Management Accounting Principles (GMAPs) in the sustainability of a mechanised piggery in a South African...

Report Performance management Intermediate

How target setting can unleash and enhance creativity

Many organisations rely on the knowledge and experiences of their employees in order to generate creative ideas for product, process, and other forms of innovation....

Report Performance management Intermediate

Scenario planning: Providing insight for impact

Evaluate the efficacy of strategies, tactics, and plans under a range of possible future environments.

Tool Planning, forecasting & budgeting Advanced

Business analytics and decision making: the human dimension

This report outlines how best practice in decision making is shifting towards an insight-driven process based on the rational interpretation and understanding of data.

Report Business models Advanced

How management accounting delivers long-term focus

A case study from Van den Udenhout (VdU), a large Dutch group of car dealers.

Report Performance management Advanced

New public sector performance management: making fiscal consolidation smarter

This report demonstrates how cost leadership and better management information will contribute to more informed decision making and a more effective programme to...

Report Performance management Expert

New public sector Performance management: making fiscal consolidation smarter

CIMA Chief Executive Charles Tilley talks about CIMA's report on public sector Performance management: making fiscal consolidation smarter.

Video Performance management Expert