HomeIs CMA for me?Part 1Technology and Analytics
US CMA Part 1Topic 6 of 615% of the examAbout 3 weeks of study.

Technology and Analytics

How to turn a company’s data into decisions people actually act on.

Why this topic exists

Finance roles increasingly expect you to handle data, not just receive it. This is the part of the syllabus most connected to where jobs are going.

What you’ll be able to do

Where it’s used at work

Finance data analyst and BI roles — the fastest-growing corner of the profession.

What students find hard

A lot of terminology (ERP, data governance, RPA). None of it requires coding.

Jobs that use it

Finance Data Analyst · FP&A Analyst · BI Analyst · Finance Transformation Analyst

Study time

About 3 weeks of study. of the full Part 1 course.

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The accounting information system

Six transaction cycles feed one general ledger. Understand the cycles and you understand how a company's numbers are born.

The data architecture library

Where does all this data live? In structures with specific jobs.

The enterprise performance cockpit

EPM software is where strategy, budgets, forecasts, actuals and KPIs meet in one cockpit — the digital home of everything you learned in Missions 2 and 3.

This is a summary for orientation, not the official syllabus. The complete content specification is published by IMA at imanet.org. In class we cover all of it, in order, with MCQs after every concept.

You don’t have to figure this out alone.

Every topic here is taught live by a CA or CMA, followed by MCQs solved together until the logic sticks. Watch a free demo before deciding anything.