There are six grades of membership within the Association :
-
Certified Management Accountant - entitled to use the
designatory letters CMA
-
Associate Management Accountant - entitled to use the
designatory letters AMA
-
Graduate Management Accountant - entitled to use the
designatory letters GMA
-
Management Accounting Affiliate - entitled to use the
designatory letters MAA
-
Student membership - not entitled to use any designatory
letters; and
-
Honorary membership - available for distinguished persons
whose services to Management Accounting and related
disciplines in the opinion of the Executive Committee merit
this award of membership.
Membership fees :
- Details of the current period's membership fees are
available in the application
form.
Qualifications :
Experience :
- For Certified Management Accountant membership - five
years approved experience in a senior and responsible
Management Accounting position is required.
- For Associate Management Accountant membership - three
years approved experience is required.
- Applicants for Graduate Management Accountant membership
must have a minimum education standard of a degree from a
university or equivalent educational institution in
accountancy or a related discipline.
- For Management Accounting Affiliate - no management
accounting experience is required. It has open entry for
those with either 2 years supervisory managerial
experience or 3 years of running one's own business. This
category of members would be required to undertake an
approved continuing professional development (CPD) program
within 2-years of being granted such membership. Note that
this CPD program can be done anywhere, for example via CMA
short courses, CPA Australia seminars or even a university
subject in accounting.
- Applications for student membership must have a minimum
education standard of year 12 or equivalent.
For the purpose of clauses 3.3(a) and 3.3(b) of the
constitution, a demonstration of experience will be required
in three main areas :
- financial and cost accounting skills
- application of the principles of cost and management
accountancy to real management problems; and
- direct involvement in resource management,
decision-making and strategic financial planning.
The experience referred to in clause 3.3(d) must be
verified by the applicant's sponsor and will be evaluated by
the Membership Committee.
* Relevant experience in management accounting is
broadly defined to include the gaining of experience in the
provision of information in a wide range of managerial
functions including costing, pricing, marketing, strategy,
financial analysis, logistics, information systems, etc.
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