July 2011


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New Diploma in Accounting

So you’ve been to college or university and graduated successfully. After putting yourself through three to four years of 8am classes, demanding professors, umpteen-page papers, make-or-break exams and way too many all-nighters, you now hold an undergraduate degree that can get you one step closer to your dream career. But now you’ve changed your mind and want to take another path… or maybe you just want to add to your qualifications. Either way, it’s time to make a decision – obtaining your first undergraduate degree seemed to take quite a while; do you really want to do it all over again? For some this can be a difficult question to answer, unless your new career choice is as a Certified Management Accountant.

Why? Well, The UWI’s St. Augustine Campus has teamed up with the Certified Management Accounting (CMA) body of Nova Scotia, Bermuda and the Caribbean, to offer a joint undergraduate Diploma in Accounting to persons with an undergraduate degree in another field. This programme, offered under the Department of Management Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, is just two semesters long and covers the foundational knowledge required of one seeking to become a professional CMA. It entails courses in accounting and management and equips graduates of the programme with, not only a Diploma in Accounting, but with the necessary skills to successfully challenge the CMA Entrance Exam.

This programme replaces the CMA’s Foundational Studies Programme, which had been offered at The UWI since 2008 through a relationship between the institutions that began nearly two decades ago.

The CMA, established in Canada in 1920, boasts a membership of over 40,000 institutions across the globe. It is recognised in Trinidad and Tobago by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago (ICATT) for the issuance of practising certificates.

To learn more about the undergraduate Diploma in Accounting, please call Mrs. Pavitra Moonsammy at 662-2002 ext 2105, or Ms. Sherry Katwaroo-Ragbir at 662-2002 ext 3502, Department of Management Studies, UWI, St. Augustine.