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Accreditation Bureau News - CIMA Feature
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CIMA and British Accreditation Bureau press release.
CIMA AND BAB COLLABORATION
The Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants (CIMA) and the British Accreditation Bureau (BAB) have
joined forces to promote the benefits of independent
accreditation.
CIMA Members in Practice are being urged to join a growing number
of professionals that recognise the importance of independent
accreditation in helping them to succeed and grow their
businesses.
CIMA will be promoting BAB’s Certified Practitioner (CP) award to
its 1,400 strong body of Members in Practice. The first part of
the campaign will be a special mailer to more than 200 holders of
CIMA's prestigious Practising Certificate.
A key attraction for qualifying CIMA members will be entry onto
BAB’s Consultants Register; the UK’s largest database of
accredited professionals. In its position as the UK’s leading
Certification Body for people accreditation, BAB has forged links
with a number of professional bodies and Government agencies. This
collaborative approach has proved a highly successful solution for
end users seeking to work with quality assured advisers and
consultants, by removing uncertainty from the selection process.
Jonathan Webb of Webb Development has been a Certified
Practitioner (CP) for the past 12 years and is the British
Accreditation Bureau’s (BAB) CP Gold Award winner for January
2006. Webb commented:
“Becoming accredited by BAB has enabled me to assess my
performance to quality benchmarks and through the feedback of the
annual BAB project assessment and client review processes, I am
provided with a keen insight into my clients’ thinking. This has
proved an invaluable source for continuous improvement and
endorsement from BAB has helped me to win and retain business.”
CIMA’s Director of Professional Standards, Peter Douglas, said:
“We regard the latest move as a significant benefit to members and
look forward to working with BAB to help our members grow their
businesses through independent assessment of their competence.”
The Credit Transfer route into the Certified Practitioner award
has benefits for members of professional bodies in terms of
savings in both time and cost and will be available to CIMA’s MiP
from January 2006. David Fenn, BAB Chief Executive said:
“Credit Transfer entry to the Certified Practitioner award
recognises the experience and prior learning of Practising
Certificate holders. Credit Transfer offers qualifying CIMA
members with a fast-track route to independent accreditation with
the benefits of recognition and lead generation to look forward
to.”
To establish Credit Transfer arrangements with BAB, professional
bodies should contact Samantha Hicks on 0870 606 2001 or email
samantha.hicks@british-accreditation.co.uk
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For further information, please contact:
Steven Hilton Samantha Hicks
Press Officer, CIMA Press Office, BAB
+44 (0) 20 8849 2427 +44 (0) 870 606 2001
steven.hilton@cimaglobal.com,
press@british-accreditation.co.uk
Notes to Editors
1. CIMA (the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants) is the only international accountancy body with a
sole focus on business. It is a world leading professional
institute that offers an internationally recognised qualification
in management accountancy, focusing on accounting in business, in
both the private and public sectors. It is the fastest growing UK
based accountancy body, in terms of members, in both the UK and
worldwide and is the voice of over 85,000 students and 65,000
members in 158 countries. CIMA is responsible for the education
and training of management accountants who work in industry,
commerce and not-for-profit and has more members in the public
sector than any other UK based body. CIMA prides itself on the
commercial relevance of its syllabus, which is in tune with the
activities of high performance organisations, and evolves
continually to reflect the latest developments in global business.
It is committed to upholding the highest ethical and professional
standards of members and students, and to maintaining public
confidence in management accountancy. For more information about
CIMA, please visit
www.cimaglobal.com
2. BAB (the British Accreditation Bureau) is
the leading certification body for accrediting people, services
and organisations. BAB is recognised by the Board of Trade as a
pre-eminent body and its Certified Practitioner award is aligned
to the international quality standard for personnel BS EN ISO:
IEC17024:2003. BAB has established Credit Transfer arrangements
with a number of the UK’s leading professional institutes. Credit
Transfer recognises experience and prior learning, which is then
translated directly into the corresponding CP specialism.
Achieving the BAB Certified Practitioner award allows holders to
be listed on BAB’s national Consultants Register of accredited
professionals, providing widespread recognition and lead
generation. For more information about BAB, please visit
www.british-accreditation.co.uk
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