A quick route for students who are fully qualified ACCA and CIMA members. Students who have completed the ACCA / CIMA qualification and have qualified as full members will be able to top up their qualification to an MBA degree with one semester of classes and one semester of dissertation writing.
The programme would allow credit transfers, reducing the duration of study for the students and their tuition fees.
ACCA / CIMA students will have studied Accounting and Finance to a post graduate level but are lacking study in other areas of business management. The MBA ACCA/CIMA Top Up strategy aims to complete the student’s exposure to the full range of business disciplines.

Students will be required send the official Course Descriptors (content description) for each module for which they want to receive credit transfers in addition to the standard application documents required. An example of the course descriptor can be seen below. Once we have received full application with the course descriptors, it will be presented to TASMAC Programme Manager for a provisional answer on whether students will be eligible for Top Up / Credit Transfer. If eligible, students may continue with the application process.

Course Descriptor example:
MODULE TITLE: Financial Framework For Business Decisions (FFBD) Semester I, Credits Points: 10
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
This module is aimed at developing the student’s ability to read, understand, and use corporate financial statements as a generalist. The module is oriented towards the user of financial accounting data (rather than the maker) and emphasises the reconstruction and interpretation of economic events from the published accounting statements and reports. However some basic inputs pertaining to the accounting principles would be taught to provide an introductory grasp from the creator’s perspective. This module also examines the use and the preparation of cost and management data for planning, decision making and control. The focus of this module would touch upon the immediate and short term financial analysis with an introduction to the basics and relevance of capital budgeting.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of this module, the students will be able to:
	Understand the basis and use of various financial statements, like income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, and be clear about the basic conventions under which each is made; · Identify the facts and the various scenarios behind numbers in a proper perspective; · Determine the various tools and techniques of financial analysis from the point of view of generalist for business decision making.

INDICATIVE CONTENT:

The accounting principles and the basis of GAAP; · Basis of understanding of financial statements and the items represented therein;

The foundation for the analysis and interpretation of financial statements. The elementary financial ratio analysis; · Time value of money and the mathematics of finance; · The concepts of cost -volume -profit relationship and managerial decision making; · Short term financial management: Working capital Management; · The process of budgeting and variance analysis; · Long term investment decisions and capital budgeting techniques.