CIMA P2 Advanced Management Accounting: Free Course

About this course

Develop advanced management-accounting knowledge through this free OpenTuition CIMA P2 course. All 34 source videos are retained, covering costing, profitability, divisional performance, investment appraisal, pricing, risk and ethics. The classroom follows a teaching progression while preserving the original titles and source positions of every recording.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Compare costing and profitability approaches used in management-accounting decisions.
• Examine divisional performance measures and transfer-pricing concepts.
• Work through investment-appraisal methods and the treatment of uncertainty.
• Connect a quantitative analysis with behavioural, organisational and ethical questions.

Skills you’ll gain

• CIMA P2 study
• Advanced costing
• Profitability analysis
• Divisional performance
• Investment appraisal
• Risk analysis

Course Overview

The source playlist identifies a 2019-syllabus teaching edition. Its 34 recordings include modern manufacturing and business-process context, customer and product profitability, activity-based approaches, target and life-cycle costing, divisional measures, pricing, investment appraisal and risk. The provider’s published course chapters reference 33 teaching-video IDs, all present in this playlist; the additional source recording is also retained. The classroom makes the progression from operating and performance topics to appraisal and uncertainty easier to follow. Use the material as recorded training and verify the current exam syllabus for your own sitting rather than assuming that a historical edition settles every requirement.

How to study the course

• Begin with costing and profitability, explaining why a method is chosen and which information it needs.
• Connect performance and pricing topics with the decisions a manager needs to make, including the potential effect on behaviour.
• Work through appraisal and uncertainty examples in stages. Check the assumptions, test a small case and explain the meaning of the result.

Use the searchable classroom lesson list to revisit a specific explanation. Pause after a useful demonstration, reproduce a small example and explain the result in your own words. Keep a short note of what worked, what changed and what you still need to understand before moving on.

Who is this for?

This course suits CIMA P2 learners and professionals developing their management-accounting analysis. It is useful when an operational or investment decision requires a more structured financial explanation.

Before you start

Prior management-accounting knowledge and confidence with basic calculations are helpful. The source is a recorded syllabus edition; use current authoritative exam requirements and appropriate practice materials. Watching the videos does not award a CIMA qualification.

Put the lessons into practice

Create a fictional business with two product lines and a proposed investment. Compare their profitability using clearly stated assumptions, then prepare a divisional-performance summary. Appraise the proposed investment using one method from the course and test a change in an uncertain input. Write a recommendation that explains the calculations, the limitations and one possible behavioural effect of the chosen measure. Keep a record of the information you would need before applying the recommendation to a real organisation.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent practice. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes, check the result against the task you defined and return to the relevant lesson when an assumption or technique is unclear.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching the public videos and using WikiFree progress tracking does not award a certificate, exam voucher, academic credit or instructor assessment. ACCA or CIMA exam entry, current exam eligibility and professional qualification requirements are separate from this video classroom.

Use your practice output to review what you can now explain and repeat independently. Completion tracking records your study progress; it does not replace an assessed qualification or professional experience.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: OpenTuition. Videos play from the OpenTuition channel on YouTube.