Akkheel Mohammed crafts a successful future with CIMA

Subheading: CIMA, the choice for high achieving school leavers desiring to shape the global landscape of the future.

CIMA, the world’s leading, and largest professional qualification founded in 1919, offers its students a unique blend of management accounting, financial accounting and business-focused subjects. This, in turn, produces competent and confident Chartered Global Management Accountants (CGMAs) capable of leading their organisations to sustainable success. In Sri Lanka, the qualification is acclaimed for helping individuals and businesses succeed by harnessing the full power of management accounting. This has made it particularly popular amongst school leavers like Akkheel Mohammed who desire to qualify young.

Placed first in the island in the Commerce Stream at Maliyadeva College, Akkheel continued his winning trajectory by completing CIMA in 2017 whilst being a second year student at the University of Sri Jayawardenepura. His motivation to pursue CIMA stemmed from his dream of making it in the corporate world with a professional qualification that is a cut above the rest. A combination of self-study and practical application of what he learned from his tuition provider helped him get through two CIMA levels whilst balancing his university studies, without compromise on either side.

Sharing his experience on CIMA’s contribution to his academic life, he said, “Some of the modules in my university course were made easy due to the solid foundation that CIMA has given me. CIMA’s case study exams gave me a bird’s eye view of how a business might operate in real life. I credit this with helping improve my business sense.” Equipped with CIMA and a fulltime student at university, Akkheel is geared to take on the corporate world on completion of his degree. His aspiration in life is to climb the corporate ladder and make his mark in the increasingly competitive world of accounting and finance.

The benefits Akkheel has availed himself on qualifying with CIMA at a young age are numerous. Apart from possessing the most relevant business qualification, the designation letters he is entitled to use on completion of CIMA indicate that he doesn’t only possess adequate knowledge in the field of business and finance but also has the competencies and skills of a Chart e red Global Management Accountant (CGMA). Furthermore, he is now connected to a community of likeminded peers in possessing the CGMA des- ignation, inadvertently demonstrates his commitment to lifelong learning, ethics and professionalism to potential employers.

CIMA is a professional qualification that transforms students like Akkheel into visionary professionals, who will shape the global landscape of tomorrow. Its syllabus is designed to be practical and that is what differentiates the qualification from the rest, from both an academic and corporate perspective.

The next intake starts in September. Call CIMA on 0112503880 or email us at

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