UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Student

PhP 3,000

per Level

Professional

PhP 4,000

per Level

Overview

CFM Level 1

Registered Personal Finance Practitioner

CFM Level 2

Associate Financial Analyst

CFM Level 3

Certified Financial Manager

The field of finance is naturally covered in the professional accountant’s services. The Certified Financial Manager (CFM) is expected to be an expert in the science of savings and risk analysis. Savings include the time value of money analysis.

The CFM practitioner has the competence to create wealth using the power of finance. It covers a thorough understanding of the financial systems, risk and return trade-off, financial statements analysis, sources of long term-financing, capital structure, business leverages, cost of capital, working capital management, and international financial management.

The participation of the CFM in the executive management is indispensable. He is there as a financial analyst and an expert in the financial dynamics. His presence confidently guides the organization as to the financial impact and outcome of major business or financial decisions of the executive management towards organizational growth, sustainability, and survival.

Benefits of CMAP
  • Entitlement to the post nominal, RPFP, AFA, and CFM.
  • Designation as

— Registered Personal Finance Practitioner
— Associate Financial Analyst
— Certified Financial Manager


Course Outline

Registered Personal Finance Practitioner

Time Value of Money

Time Value of Money

— Time Value of Money Concepts– Nature of Interest – Simple and Compound– Future Value– Present Value


Economic Analysis

  • Micro economic analysis

— Fundamental economic principles and the law of diminishing returns
— Demand schedule
— Supply schedule
— Economic exchange, economic cycle and government intervention
— Economic profit
— Market structure

  • Macro economic analysis

— Public welfare and national income
— Classical economics
— Keynesian economics
— Fiscal economics
— Monetary economics
— Neo-Keynesian economics

Working Capital Management

  • Basic Principles in Working Capital Management

— The Business Hedging principle
— Financing policy on working capital management
— Operating policy on managing profitability and liquidity



  • Cash and marketable securities management

— Basic principles in cash management
— Effective borrowing rate
— Optimal cash investment to marketable securities
— Cash synchronization management
— Managing short-term investments

  • Trade receivables management

— Basic principles in trade receivables management
— Managing the trade credit and collection policy
— Receivable days management
— Effective discount rate on receivables

  • Inventory management

— Inventory management environment
— ABC, 2-Bin, Red-line, Minimum-Maximum Inventory models
— Economic order quantity
— Re-order point
— Optimal safety stock
— Modern inventory management models

  • Short-term financing management

— Types of short-term financing
— Effective borrowing rate


Code of Ethics

Associate Financial Analyst

Time Value of Money

  • Time Value of Money

— Time Value of Money Concepts
— Nature of Interest – Simple and Compound
— Future Value
— Present Value

Financial Statement Analysis

  • Financial statements analysis

— Basic concepts in financial statements analysis
— Horizontal analysis
— Vertical analysis
— Trend analysis
— Financial mix ratios: Leverage ratios
— Financial mix ratios: Profitability ratios
— Financial mix ratios: Growth ratios
— Financial mix ratios: Liquidity ratios

Cost of capital, business leverages, and optimal capital structure

  • Cost of Capital

— Basic concepts in cost of capital
— Growth Model and the weighted average cost of capital (K)
— Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Bond Yield Model and Arbitrage Pricing Model

  • Business leverages

— Operating and financial leverages
— Marginal cost of capital and financial breakpoints
— Optimal cost of capital and capital structure

  • Long-term Financing


Capital Investment Analysis

  • Capital Budgeting

— Fundamental principles in strategic investment management
— Net cost of strategic investment
— Concept of recovery
— Project evaluation techniques: Traditional Models
— Project evaluation techniques: Discounted Models
— NPV v. IRR

  • Financial Valuation

— Topic mapping. Financial valuation
— Market approach or Sales comparison approach
— Income approach
— Cost approach or Asset approach

Certified Financial Manager

All Topics in Level 1

All Topics in Level 2

  • International Financial Management
  • Quantitative techniques applied in business
  • Project feasibility study


How to Get Certified

Training

Register for the CERTS training to gain access to learning resources such as video lectures, study notes, exercises, and assessments.
Attend the live Online Mentoring Session (OMS) as schedule to further refine your preparation.

Simulation Exam

Take the Simulation Examination (SimEx) as scheduled. It comprises of sixty (60) questions for three (3) hours. A learner must earn a rating of at least 35/60 to qualify for the Actual Examination. A learner who failed the SimEx may retake on the next schedule for a minimal fee.

Examination

Qualified candidates shall be indorsed for the CFA examination as scheduled. The examination comprises of sixty (60) questions budgeted for three (3) hours. An examinee must earn a minimum rating of 75% to pass.

Title / Certification

Candidates who passed the CFA examination may now apply for certification. The same certification may then be submitted for accreditation with the Asia Pacific Professionals Association (APPA) Foundation and other professional institutes.