Entrance exam · All-India

CMA Foundation Examination

Usually called CMA Foundation

The entrance to Cost and Management Accountancy — what things cost to make and run, and how a business decides on that basis. Less known than CA and a genuinely different job.

What kind of thing this is

A test you sit to be admitted to a course or an institution. Open across India.

Who can apply

Class 12, any stream. Registration is with ICMAI directly.

Where it leads

Commerce & businessAccounting, economics, and undergraduate business pathways.

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CMA Foundation Examination

What kind of thing this is

Who can apply

Where it leads

Other routes into the same fields

Common University Entrance Test (Undergraduate)

CA Foundation Examination

CS Executive Entrance Test