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If you want to become a cost management accountant, you need to achieve expertise in the domain of financial accounting. The paper, Financial Accounting, builds on the concepts learned from CMA Foundation (Fundamentals of Accounting). At foundation level, you were introduced to Fundamentals of Accounting. Here, you get a working knowledge of the accounting concepts involved in Financial Accounting. You also learn how to present and construct financial statements that are understandable to the relevant stakeholders. Special emphasis is given to accounting in the computerised environment.

The approach taken by our faculty in teaching you this subject is to provide you with a lot of practice problems. Make sure that you try solving them before looking at the solution. Also, you should keep up to date with the latest accounting standards. We update our material to reflect the latest changes in the syllabus so that you do not have to go hunting around in search of updated study materials.

The faculty in charge of teaching this paper is CA Chinmaya Hegde. His teaching experience covers all three levels of the Chartered Accountancy Course over a period of 6 years in various academies such as Samvit Academy and CAPs. He is a rank holder in all three levels (13th rank in CA Foundation, 3rd rank in CA Intermediate and 39th rank in CA Final.)

As a CMA, you would need to understand the laws and environment under which businesses operate in India. Due to the professional nature of the job, you will be responsible to many important stakeholders including the government. As such, you need to conduct yourself with a high degree of professionalism and with utmost integrity. The paper, Laws & Ethics, builds on the concepts you learned at the Foundation level. You will understand, to a greater depth, various business laws, with special emphasis on online contracts, etc. You will also get a better grounding in ethical principles.

The major challenges students face in law papers is to (i) keep updated with the latest changes in legislation and (ii) remember the appropriate section numbers and the wording of the law. At LearnCab, we keep updating our content so that you do not have to spend time and effort to acquire study materials elsewhere. Also, you should not be passively watching the videos. Take short notes and map out keywords while watching. This will help reinforce the concepts in your mind.

The faculty in charge of this paper is CS Dattari HM. He is a Company Secretary and Lawyer by qualification. He holds 2nd rank from Mysore University. Mr. Dattatri has over 16+ years hands on experience in corporate, legal, secretarial matters. He was the Chairman of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Bangalore Chapter.

Your main goal as a CMA is profitability analysis and budget preparation. To do this effectively, you need to understand all expenses of the company. That is why ICMAI has introduced this paper Direct Taxation at the CMA Intermediate level. Also, you must gain an understanding of the framework under which both an individual or a business entity is taxed. You should know how to compute taxable income of an assessee. You should also understand the impact of taxes on Net Income.

The approach our faculty takes in teaching you this subject is to go through a lot of computations and examples. This way, you will understand what kinds of questions the Institute will ask during your examination.
Professor P. Subbaraman is the faculty for the paper, and is quite renowned in South India. He is known as “The Tax Master” by students and has over 12 years’ experience in teaching CA students. He is a reputed faculty at various Institutions in South India and is an MBA by qualification.

As a CMA, this paper, Cost Accounting, shores up your core competency areas. You need to understand these concepts in detail. Acting as an advisor to businesses, you need to know how to help them control their costs. You need to understand the relationship among Cost Accounting, Management Accounting and Financial Accounting. Our unique credit-based subscription model helps you to quickly go through all these topics so that you get a holistic idea of how everything is inter-related. Not only that, we have study notes that supplement our video lectures. This way, you do not need to refer to the videos each time when you want a quick and concise summary of the content.


Two faculty teach this paper. One of them is CA Hariharan. He is one of the most well-known and popular faculty for Costing at ICAI branches and various institutions in South India. He has over 10+ years in teaching CA students and is fondly known as the “Costing Guru”. A recipient of the CM’s award in excellence in Academics, he is dedicated and passionate about teaching. This is reflected in his amazing record of 38 continuous hours of teaching at the ICAI Trivandrum branch.

The other faculty is CMA Raveendranath Kaushik. He is a Cost and Management Accountant by profession. He has over 8 years’ teaching experience as a trainer for students of Professional courses (CA/CS/CMA) at various institutions and professional bodies. He is also the guest faculty at ICAI Bengaluru chapter. He holds PG degrees in Economics, Finance and Tax laws, and is also an MPhil in Economics. He is certified by IIT (Institute of International Trade) – Centre for WTO studies in International Taxation. He is currently a consultant at Raveendranath Kaushik & Associates.

As a CMA, you need to be able to identify ways and means to help businesses reduce their costs. To help you do this, you need to understand how the business process works as well as its operations. You should also understand how and why product planning works along with how best to manage resources. You should understand the mission, vision and goals of the company to ensure that all decisions taken are in line with the goals laid out.

Under Operations Management, you will learn about operations planning, designing of operations system and control, production planning, productivity and quality management, project management and the economics of maintenance and spares management. Under Strategic Management, you will understand strategic analysis and strategic planning such as SWOT analysis, portfolio analysis, BCG Matrices etc. You will also gain an understanding of the different stages in the strategic formulation process.

The best approach to study this subject is to first understand the concepts and then solve practical questions immediately. This way you will retain the concepts for a longer tenure and understand your footing on the subject. This is why, at LearnCab, you get plenty of practice problems, quizzes and mock exams to give you the deliberate practice you need to become an expert.

Cost & Management Accounting as well as Financial Management is one of the core competency areas of a CMA . As a CMA, you need to identify ways to maximise revenue and ensure that the company runs smoothly in terms of operations. You will help business keep their costs at a minimum and to leverage their resources properly. Financial Management is important because it helps you to make decisions that will maximise the value of the business.

We have renowned faculty teaching this subject. Their passion and enthusiasm for teaching ensures that you learn the concepts well and be able to recall them during the exam.

One of the faculty is CA Hariharan. He is one of the most well known and popular faculty for Costing at ICAI branches and various institutions in South India. He has over 10+ years in teaching CA students and is fondly known as the “Costing Guru”. A recipient of the CM’s award in excellence in Academics, he is dedicated and passionate about teaching. This is reflected in his amazing record of 38 continuous hours of teaching at the ICAI Trivandrum branch.

The other faculty is CMA Raveendranath Kaushik. He is a Cost and Management Accountant by profession. He has over 8 years’ teaching experience as a trainer for students of Professional courses (CA/CS/CMA) at various institutions and professional bodies. He is also the guest faculty at ICAI Bengaluru chapter. He holds PG degrees in Economics, Finance and Tax laws, and is also an MPhil in Economics. He is certified by IIT (Institute of International Trade) – Centre for WTO studies in International Taxation. He is currently a consultant at Raveendranath Kaushik & Associates.

In order to make effective business decisions as a CMA, you need to understand the impact of indirect taxes.  That is why ICMAI has introduced this paper Indirect Taxation at the CMA Intermediate level. You need to be able to compute the assessable value of transactions under GST. You should also understand the procedure and framework of statues related to indirect taxation.

Our approach to teaching indirect taxation is to provide you with a lot of examples so that you can see how tax is calculated under GST. Also, our faculty, CA Praveen Jain, is a renowned teacher and has hands on experience in the field of Indirect Taxation. His 5+ years’ teaching experience at various esteemed academies and Institutions makes him one of the best faculty in this domain. He is a Chartered Accountant by Profession and is a partner at RaguPrashanth & Associates, Chartered Accountants, Coimbatore.

As a CMA, you need to obtain an in-depth knowledge of how to prepare financial statements including procedures, principles and the professional standards. You will also need to perform cost audits of companies. As such, you need to have some basic knowledge of other types of audit to get a general idea of the procedure. So, that is why ICMAI has introduced this paper Company Accounts and Audit at the CMA Intermediate level.

You need to perform audits etc. according to the latest auditing standards. That is why, at LearnCab, we update our content to reflect the latest changes in legislation.

The faculty who teaches this subject is CA Vikas Oswal. He has over 12+ years’ experience in teaching auditing for CA Intermediate and CA Final students at ICAI and other private institutions. He is the author of one of the most definitive books on Audit for CA Intermediate/CA IPCC & CA Final students. His way of teaching concepts is dynamic, dramatic and entertaining. An FCA, he holds various diplomas like DISA and ACS.