Christine Denison

I’ve taught courses in management accounting for years and always told my students about how beneficial the CMA certification would be for their careers, but it wasn’t until 2019 that I decided to earn the certification myself.

Although I knew I would have no trouble with the management accounting portions of the exam, it had been a long, long time since I had studied financial accounting, I’d never had a systems class, and there were entire fields that had emerged since I earned my business degrees, such as enterprise risk management, that I knew would be covered on the CMA exam, so I had a lot to learn before I could sit for it.

The Gleim online course was exactly what I needed. I could study on my own schedule, which was cramped because I did most of my studying over one winter break. I learned everything I needed to know from the engaging videos and comprehensive text, and felt prepared to sit for both parts after taking the practice exams.

I took both parts of the CMA exam in January 2020, and I felt comfortable taking the test because the format was almost exactly the same as what I saw in the Gleim course and both the multiple choice questions and the essays were similar to those I had practiced through the course. Not only did I pass both parts, but I also earned the ICMA gold medal for the highest score in my testing window.