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geradose:
Hi guys, please I need you advice.

1) I have a bsc in accounting
A Masters in finance
An ACA ican qualification.

About taking the Ican - CIMA conversion route.
Am I good to go or I start from BA1 etc...

2) Any idea on how the WES score will look like?


Thanks

since you already have a masters, you don't need CIMA. Master's will give you 8 more points. unless you just want to do CIMA for career boosting Sha.

geradose:
Hi guys, please I need you advice.

1) I have a bsc in accounting
A Masters in finance
An ACA ican qualification.

About taking the Ican - CIMA conversion route.
Am I good to go or I start from BA1 etc...

2) Any idea on how the WES score will look like?


Thanks

Finance masters is enough for WES. For CPA, you can write the case study level before you travel

Hi guys, so I am trying to get some clarification about CIMA's exemption. According to them, I get an exemption for:

CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting:

BA1 Fundamentals of Business Economics
BA2 Fundamentals of Management Accounting
BA3 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
BA4 Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Law

Operational level:

E1 Managing Finance in a Digital World

I would like to find out if I can write say just the BA4 Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Law and get the certificate?

Thanks.

Thanks

sauuron:
since you already have a masters, you don't need CIMA. Master's will give you 8 more points. unless you just want to do CIMA for career boosting Sha.

spongebobsquare:
Send me a DM, I can help.

Kindly link me up with the WhatsApp group

tdjeans:
Hi guys, so I am trying to get some clarification about CIMA's exemption. According to them, I get an exemption for:

CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting:

BA1 Fundamentals of Business Economics
BA2 Fundamentals of Management Accounting
BA3 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
BA4 Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Law

Operational level:

E1 Managing Finance in a Digital World

I would like to find out if I can write say just the BA4 Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Law and get the certificate?

Thanks.

Don't take exemptions

If you do

You will spoil the evaluation

Thanks for the information ����

DexterousOne:
Don't take exemptions

If you do

You will spoil the evaluation

Hi guys, I just passed the BA four papers. I am now filling the details on WES , please I filled the country of Education as Nigeria, and it says the site couldn't find such certification in Nigeria.. so I decided to fill all manually despite the prompt.

Country of Education: Nigeria
Institution Type: Professional Education Qualifications
Name of Institution: Chartered Institute of Management
Name of Diploma/ Certificate: Certificate in Business accounting
Year Awarded : 2019
Year Attended: 2019 to 2019

Im I good to go? Those who have crossed this stage, should please respond. Please heeelp.

doxame:
Hi guys, I just passed the BA four papers. I am now filling the details on WES , please I filled the country of Education as Nigeria, and it says the site couldn't find such certification in Nigeria.. so I decided to fill all manually despite the prompt.

Country of Education: Nigeria
Institution Type: Professional Education Qualifications
Name of Institution: Chartered Institute of Management
Name of Diploma/ Certificate: Certificate in Business accounting
Year Awarded : 2019
Year Attended: 2019 to 2019

Im I good to go? Those who have crossed this stage, should please respond. Please heeelp.

Well, I used UK as country of Education.... but all the info you put up is correct except for "Accountants" missing from the Institution's name.

did u create a new WES account or updated your formal Degree evaluation? House help on this question.

doxame:
Hi guys, I just passed the BA four papers. I am now filling the details on WES , please I filled the country of Education as Nigeria, and it says the site couldn't find such certification in Nigeria.. so I decided to fill all manually despite the prompt.

Country of Education: Nigeria
Institution Type: Professional Education Qualifications
Name of Institution: Chartered Institute of Management
Name of Diploma/ Certificate: Certificate in Business accounting
Year Awarded : 2019
Year Attended: 2019 to 2019

Im I good to go? Those who have crossed this stage, should please respond. Please heeelp.

I did not create a new account. I asked to update my previous evaluation but as it had been completed, I was redirected to create a new application but it's still within the same account.

Annettevoke:
did u create a new WES account or updated your formal Degree evaluation? House help on this question.

Heard it's possible to obtain the ECA without necessarily sending the Certificate but I don't know how.
Please,could you help me find out what the guy in your WhatsApp group submitted to CIMA that made them conclude his ECA even without him having to send his certificate.
Any other person who has an idea about this could also enlighten me..Thanks so much.

bozz007:
VERY LONG POST ALERT!!! Just to share my experience, encourage and educate people....I finished my CIMA BAs recently (very basic accounting background).

Total time to finish all papers: Just over 3 months and below is my timeline:

BA1: May 19, 2019. Exam Center: London School of Information Technology, GRA, Ikeja
Materials used: Strictly, opentuition study text and videos.
The opentuition study text I used for BA1 was very brief and quite easy to understand especially when combined with the videos. However, their practice tests didn't reflect the actual exam-type questions. So, if you are going to use it, you need to read and understand in order to apply the knowledge or better still, solve kaplan practice questions to familiarize yourself with exam questions. Passed the exam quite well.
I chose the exam center because they were the only ones open on Saturday.

BA3: June 1st.. Exam Center: London School of Information Technology, GRA, Ikeja
Materials used: Astranti study text and practice tests on the astranti website (astranti dot com)
I switched to Astranti for BA3 because I didn't like the voice of the instructor in the opentuition videos (you need to watch the videos to fully grasp the study text). Astranti also provided the advantage of revision notes, which sort of summarizes the voluminous study texts. Their online practice tests were also very useful.

BA4: June 29th. Exam Center: London School of Information Technology, GRA, Ikeja
Materials used: Astranti study text and practice tests
I used only Astranti for BA4 as well. I kinda underrated this course and almost failed (scored 102, pass score is 100). It is the only course without calculations, so I read the study texts in 1 week and put in for the exam. My God!! I honestly thought I was going to fail judging by how the exam went but we thank God sha.

BA2: Aug 20th. Exam Center: 1st Intellit Solutions, CMD road, Lagos
Materials used: Kaplan study text and practice questions.
Due to work and other stuff, I had to take a break before studying for the dreaded BA2. BA2 has a bad reputation for highest failure rate so I thought lemme take my time to read it well. BAD DECISION! The break I took put me off my stride totally. The initial ginger of studying day and night vanished. Found it really hard to juggle work, personal life and studying like the previous ones and even when I found time to study, the astranti study texts were really hard to understand. I shifted the exam THREE times in July before eventually cancelling it. August was flying by too and was still struggling to understand what I was reading. Then, a colleague resigned after getting PR and CRS scores kept increasing. I immediately slapped myself back to reality and decided to take 5 days exam leave immediately after sallah break. Scheduled the exam and promised myself not to cancel/shift this time.
My CIMA group people (shoutout to them….their ginger is contagious) shared Kaplan practice questions and I decided to switch to it. I recommend Kaplan study texts EVERYDAY OF THE WEEK. Their practice questions are very close to real exam questions and the study texts are very easy to understand. I read day and night during the leave and the exam turned out to be the easiest of all the exams (had my highest score in BA2)

Study Recommendations:
Whatever study text you decide to use, please make sure you solve all the Kaplan practice questions afterwards. They are very close to real exam questions.

NEXT STEPS AFTER EXAM.
1. Logged on to WES to request for additional certificate evaluation (previously evaluated my BSc with them), paid the necessary fees (107CAD), got my WES reference number and downloaded the WES academic records form.

2. After my last exam score was uploaded, I e-mailed CIMA to request for transcript and letter of good standing and attached the WES form. I followed up with a call as well. Their default process is to send through Canada Post, which takes 6 weeks. In order to speed up the process, I told them I wanted arrange for a courier (DHL) to pick it up.

Process for DHL parcel pickup.
Step 1 - Fill in necessary details on this DHL web page.
https://book.parcel.dhl.co.uk/
Note : Collection details should be CIMA address and phone number. For Name, write Amen or Bill or Evelyn. The e-mail should be your email address. Very important to use your email address here so you can track the shipment and get the shipping label.

Step 2 : Fill in the delivery address, use the WES Canada address and make sure you include your WES reference number.

Step 3 : For the size of the parcel, choose Height 1cm, length 20 cm, width 20cm. This determines the price you will pay

Step 3 : Choose pickup date. To be on a safe side pick the next day even though you would tell CIMA to get it ready same day.

Step 4 : Make payments. Total payment should be £41.28. DHL doesn’t accept naira card (dunno about dollar). So, you need to pay with PayPal. Get in touch with someone with a PayPal account to make the payment for you or open Nigerian PayPal and use your naira card on it.

Step 5: Once your shipping label has been sent to you by DHL, forward this to CIMA via email and include the normal "you will like CIMA to prepare your transcript and letter of good standing, so that it can be sent to WES.

Step 6: Call CIMA after some 30 mins or thereabout to tell them you've sent an email concerning preparation of your transcript and state the time courier service will be picking it up. Ask if it will be ready by that time. All these is formality, it's just for them to acknowledge the email and ensure they prepare your transcript immediately.

You will get an email once your parcel is picked up by DHL and you can track the movement. Your transcript will get to WES within 3 days.

CIMA said the certificate won’t be ready until 6 weeks after and someone in the WhatsApp group said he got his ECA without sending the certificate, I’m really hoping same will be applicable to me even though I will keep calling them for it.

Unfortunately, the whatsapp group is currently filled but I think they opened a telegram group, will try to find the link.

Wish you the best.

doxame:
Hi guys, I just passed the BA four papers. I am now filling the details on WES , please I filled the country of Education as Nigeria, and it says the site couldn't find such certification in Nigeria.. so I decided to fill all manually despite the prompt.

Country of Education: Nigeria
Institution Type: Professional Education Qualifications
Name of Institution: Chartered Institute of Management
Name of Diploma/ Certificate: Certificate in Business accounting
Year Awarded : 2019
Year Attended: 2019 to 2019

Im I good to go? Those who have crossed this stage, should please respond. Please heeelp.

For country of education
You should have filled United Kingdom

Amarhkah:
Heard it's possible to obtain the ECA without necessarily sending the Certificate but I don't know how.
Please,could you help me find out what the guy in your WhatsApp group submitted to CIMA that made them conclude his ECA even without him having to send his certificate.
Any other person who has an idea about this could also enlighten me..Thanks so much.

From recent happenings, the guy was just lucky. They will not evaluate it properly without the certificate.

Amarhkah:
Heard it's possible to obtain the ECA without necessarily sending the Certificate but I don't know how.
Please,could you help me find out what the guy in your WhatsApp group submitted to CIMA that made them conclude his ECA even without him having to send his certificate.
Any other person who has an idea about this could also enlighten me..Thanks so much.

I think you should wait tho

The certificates will be shipped to onikoyi in Lagos
I just picked mine last week or so.
And sent a photocopy to them

bozz007:
From recent happenings, the guy was just lucky. They will not evaluate it properly without the certificate.

Exactly

Good day.... Please, when WES received your transcript, did they update your profile like.... Transcript received and Certificate awaiting? My Transcript was received yesterday (I tracked it on WES site) and my profile was updated yesterday but it just says we are awaiting ur documents without specifying which one

DexterousOne:
I think you should wait tho

The certificates will be shipped to onikoyi in Lagos
I just picked mine last week or so.
And sent a photocopy to them

Jolieee:
Good day.... Please, when WES received your transcript, did they update your profile like.... Transcript received and Certificate awaiting? My Transcript was received yesterday (I tracked it on WES site) and my profile was updated yesterday but it just says we are awaiting ur documents without specifying which one

You should get an update by the end of today on your profile

Ok.. Thanks alot for your response.

DexterousOne:
You should get an update by the end of today on your profile

Hi Guys, I am an ICAN chartered accountant with AAT as well. So I already used my AAT to get the score for two or more certificates from WES . I am thinking of writing the Strategic Case Study course in CIMA to get fully CIMA qualified. I am trying to find out if there are additional benefits to this. I know about the MRA in place between CIMA with CPA Canada, but do i get the points awarded for a masters degree if the CIMA qualification is assessed by WES?. I think ACCA holders have this privilege. Apart from exposure to job opportunities, I also heard that CPA Canada can be used to claim the points for Canadian education, is this true?

Hi guys. Thanks for all your help. I just passed BA1-BA4. Please what are the next steps to folllow?

How do i go about requesting for my transcript from cima?

Please someone that has done this should answer. I really want it to get to wes before this year ends.

Thanks.

sandsone198:
Hi guys. Thanks for all your help. I just passed BA1-BA4. Please what are the next steps to folllow?

How do i go about requesting for my transcript from cima?

Please someone that has done this should answer. I really want it to get to wes before this year ends.

Thanks.

Congratulations! Read previous pages on the thread. I and other people have shared the steps.

blueheffner:
Hi Guys, I am an ICAN chartered accountant with AAT as well. So I already used my AAT to get the score for two or more certificates from WES . I am thinking of writing the Strategic Case Study course in CIMA to get fully CIMA qualified. I am trying to find out if there are additional benefits to this. I know about the MRA in place between CIMA with CPA Canada, but do i get the points awarded for a masters degree if the CIMA qualification is assessed by WES?. I think ACCA holders have this privilege. Apart from exposure to job opportunities, I also heard that CPA Canada can be used to claim the points for Canadian education, is this true?

The only question I can answer here is the one in bold and NO, you won't get points awarded for masters.

sandsone198:
Hi guys. Thanks for all your help. I just passed BA1-BA4. Please what are the next steps to folllow?

How do i go about requesting for my transcript from cima?

Please someone that has done this should answer. I really want it to get to wes before this year ends.

Thanks.

Congrats

bozz007:
Please follow links below to download the materials and videos:

All study texts (Kaplan, Astranti and opentuition): drive. Google .com /drive/ folders/ 1Y7DXywxS_TURIGBNmr45C0yUz7Z-9C5m

Astranti BA1 videos: drive. google .com /drive /folders/ 1OP5ftnVlxR97NSr-sYY4uXcx3t9YLNE9

Astranti BA2 videos: drive. google. com/ open?id= 1F5fkqg6HMNiJJJMhZn50QTrk7qKvUKmb

Astranti BA3 videos: drive. google. com/ open?id= 1AmmuT51yUzYPbXkKhiBKR_PKyxahZJEy

Opentuition BA4 videos: drive. Google .com/ drive/ folders/ 1grdviQ5cWjqbG-mA6PlWystYgQFqtb48


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Denerystormborn:
Merry christmas to all of you. May all our prayers be answered this 2020.

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dbaptist1:
Please dear, can i get link to any cima group

I'm in dire need for this

Please I also need the link to any of the group chats. Thank you

DexterousOne:
Congrats

Hi dexterous, please how did you go about telling wes to add the cima credential to your profile.

The evaluation of my bsc transcript is currently in progress. Also how long did it take till they added cima to your profile and was a notification sent to

you? Also who knows how i can contact wes?

sandsone198:
Hi dexterous, please how did you go about telling wes to add the cima credential to your profile.

The evaluation of my bsc transcript is currently in progress. Also how long did it take till they added cima to your profile and was a notification sent to

you? Also who knows how i can contact wes?

I sent them a mail

DexterousOne:
Don't take exemptions

If you do

You will spoil the evaluation

Please can you elaborate on this?. I also got some exemptions.

Omotoyosi24:
Please can you elaborate on this?. I also got some exemptions.

When they evaluate
It's course by course

If you take exemption
Those courses will be blank hence incomplete registration

DexterousOne:
When they evaluate
It's course by course

If you take exemption
Those courses will be blank hence incomplete registration

Thanks for the information.

I was exempted from the first level (Cert. in business accounting bt I declined my exemption in BA4)
I thought since I did those courses as an undergraduate and WES has my uni transcript they can just evaluate it.

I will try to get more information from Wes on how they evaluate exempted courses.

Thanks again