CMA Executive Program

The CMA Executive Program is for senior-level executives who are shaping the future of their organizations. Dynamic, intensive and highly rigorous, the program offers a unique forum where business-changing ideas come to life. Explore the evolving role of senior management executives who are leading businesses in today's volatile and complex global environment and gain the ultimate competitive advantage: a CMA designation.

Centred around the concepts of the CMA Strategic Leadership Program, the program is a specialized, accelerated program that builds on the pillars of the CMA designation – strategy, management and accounting. The program's content represents the best practices employed by successful enterprises to achieve market dominance and examines the the role of senior management executives in propelling organizations ahead. The CMA Executive Program features independent study as well as periodic interactive sessions with your peer group that take place across the Prairies over a 10-month period.
 

Program information videos 
Todd Scaletta, MBA, FCMA (Vice President, Research and Innovation, CMA Canada and CMAA ECMA Program Moderator) talks about key benefits of the ECMA program, contents of the ECMA Application Phase, structure of the program modules and key success factors.

Mark Morpurgo, MBA, FCMA (PSI Instructor, CMAA AP Instructor and ECMA program moderator) talks about the Foundation Phase of the ECMA program: objectives, structure of the program, evaluation and key success factors.

Prerequisites
To qualify for the CMA Executive Program, you will have:
 

• completed an undergraduate degree
  
• a minimum of five years of senior-level experience as a strategic management professional.
  
  ECMA 2012 program highlights

Program intake
The CMA Executive Program is offered in the fall and takes 10 months to complete.

Evaluation:
The evaluation point for the CMA Executive Program is the CMA Board Report, which occurs at the end of the program. Candidates complete a comprehensive, team-based written evaluation and presentation of a business situation as outlined in a case representing different sectors of the economy. The written report is developed by candidate teams and submitted for evaluation by CMA Canada. Each team also presents its analysis and recommendations to a simulated board of directors comprised of CMA members and/or non-CMA public business professionals in Alberta. Nationally developed guidelines are used to assess the Board Report. Candidate teams must achieve a combined grade of 60 per cent to pass.

For more information or to apply for the program, please contact the CMA Alberta office at 1.877.CMA.2000.