August 2022 - Strategic Finance

ESG in the Accounting Curriculum

Environmental, social, and governance accounting reports nonfinancial risks, including increased drought and extreme weather.

2023 Student Case Competition: Kunapipi Gardens: Transfer Pricing in the Service Industry

Recommend improvements to a resort hotel’s income statement format to better capture and understand the company’s performance.

Teaching the ETL Process

Accounting professors need to teach students the steps of extracting, transforming, and loading data before it can be analyzed.

Learning with Documentaries

Documentaries’ multichannel presentation, relying on a popular means to relay information, is effective in teaching students.

Memory and Storage: Then and Now

Micron’s new 1.5TB microSD, the highest-capacity microSD card in the world, prompts a look back at IBM’s first computer disks.

Digital Skills of the Future

Finance professionals who achieve fluency in technical skills such as data governance and process modeling will have a leg up.

Resilience Through Value-stream Mapping

Small businesses rank the importance of business activities on their customers and other stakeholders to stay competitive.

Encouraging Engagement in IMA

Becoming a student member of IMA, winning a CMA scholarship, and joining an IMA chapter are steps toward earning the CMA.

Books: Leading to Help People Thrive

Leaders can boost their effectiveness by optimizing performance through time management, mentoring, and analyzing metrics.

Company Culture and Team Creativity

Creativity is cultivated from team members building on their work by reformulating and reinterpreting each other’s ideas.

Teaching Case-Based Accounting Ethics

To teach accounting ethics effectively, use recent relatable cases to provide concrete examples that elucidate ethical theory.

Global Economy Set for Weak Growth as Confidence Drops

ACCA and IMA’s Global Economic Conditions Survey found that confidence in the economy among finance professionals is lagging.

Welcome, New CMAs: June 2022

The ICMA is proud to announce the list of IMA members who earned their CMA certification in June 2022.

Teachable Moments

Gwen van Berne talks about her priorities as IMA Chair and stresses the importance of always learning and adapting to change.

IMA Reimagines its Annual Conference

IMA hosted two hybrid events for its members: the 2022 Accounting & Finance Conference (IMA22) and Annual Meeting of Members.

Tools of the Trade: August 2022

A look at the Samsung M7 Smart Monitor, Fujifilm’s instax mini Evo, Onyx Boox Poke 4 Lite ereader, and INIU Portable Charger.

2022 IMA Student Manuscript Winner: Benefits of IMA from a Student’s Perspective

The IMA Student Manuscript Competition winner describes how UNLV’s student chapter president started on a path to become a CMA.

Taxation of a Cannabis Business

Can a cannabis business owner deduct expenses associated with their operation for federal income tax purposes? It depends.

CSCA Exam Question Writers Needed

ICMA seeks subject-matter experts in strategy and analysis to write multiple-choice and case-study questions for the CSCA exam.

Excel: VLOOKUP for Speed

An Exceller used a lookup function as a shortcut to help him win the Financial Modeling World Cup in 2021.