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   Certified Associate Business Manager (CABM)


  Program Objectives

To assist you plan your career thru in-depth understanding of Functional areas of business. You will be able to benefit from the Pre-MBA curriculum when starting in a Business specialty. It will also provide background to individuals considering graduate Business programs, and give them the required experience to apply for the CBM designation.

  Pre-requisites and Requirements
As a Bachelors-level certification, the CABM is open to everyone.

  Exam Window (s)
May-June
For more information on exam & registration deadlines, please visit CABM registration/exam info.

  Course Date (s)
December-April
April-September

  Continuing Professional Education (CPE)
The CABM can also earn the CPEs through APBM’s own continuing education program, CABM Lifetime Learning. This program is based on online quizzes developed from Harvard Business Review articles and is organized by the ten Learning Modules tested on the CBM Exams.

For more information on CPE, please visit CABM Lifetime Learning

  Program Contents
The One-Part exam covers the following topics:

• General Management and Organization (15%) - Corporate Strategies, Forms of Business Organizations, Management Perspectives, Functions of Management, Motivating and Communication, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Business Policy, Culture, and Ethics, Impact of Government on Business, Business Law, Managerial Economics, Organization Design and Development, Project Management, Quantitative Techniques in Business

• Operations Management (10%) - Operations Strategies, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain Management, Services and Retail Operations, Ethics and Operations.

• Marketing Management (10%) - Marketing Strategies, New Product Development and Product Management, Advertising and Promotion, Pricing Strategies, Consumer Behavior and Marketing Research, Marketing Channels and Distribution, Electronic Commerce and Marketing, Ethics and Marketing, Market Segmentation and Target Markets, Services and Retail Marketing, Sales Administration and Management, Ethics and Sales.

• Quality and Process Management (10%) - Quality Strategies, Product Quality, Quality Management Practices, Quality Control Practices, Process Management Practices, Service Quality, Business Process Analysis, Ethics and Quality

• Human Resources Management (10%) - Human Resources Strategies, Employee Performance and Retention Management, Staffing, Development, and Employment Practices, Workforce Diversity Management, Employee Benefits and Compensation, Ethics and Human Resources.

• Accounting (10%) - Accounting Strategies, The Accounting Process, Assets, Liabilities, and Owners' Equity, Analysis and Use of Financial Statements, Cost Behavior, Control, and Decision Making, Product and Service Costs, Operating Budgets and Performance Evaluation, Decision Making and Accounting, Control and Accounting, Ethics and Accounting.

• Finance (10%) - Finance Strategies, Working Capital Policy, Managing Short-Term Assets, Managing Short-Term Financing, Managing Long-Term Financing, Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Control, Cost of Capital, Capital Structure, and Dividend Policy, Capital Budgeting, Financial Markets, Instruments, and Institutions, Financial Risk Management, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Business Valuations, Ethics and Finance.

• Information Technology (10%) - Information Technology Strategies, Information Systems Planning, Information Technology Risk Management, Decision Making and Information Technology, Data and Knowledge Management, Systems Development and Acquisition, Managing Information Technology Resources, Telecommunications and Networks, Business Information Systems, Information Technology Security and Controls, Electronic Commerce and Information Technology, Information Technology Contingency Plans, Ethics and Information Technology.

• Corporate Control and Governance (10%) - Corporate Control Strategies, Internal Control Framework and Control Models, Corporate Fraud, Corporate Risk Management, Corporate Citizenship, Accountability, and Public Policy, Issues Management and Crisis Management, Corporate Ethics and Management Assurance, Corporate Governance.

• International Business (5%) - Global Business Strategies, Forms of International Business and Marketing Strategies, International Risks, Global Organization Structure and Control, International Trade and Investment, International Payments, International Cultures and Protocols, International Economics, International Banking, International Law, Ethics and International Business.

To learn more about the Program Content, please visit CABM Preparation Material
For more information, please visit www.apbm.org Program Objectives