ACCA Management Accounting (MA) Course in Doha, Qatar

The Management Accounting syllabus has these main areas:

• The nature, sources and purpose of management information

• Data analysis and statistical techniques, including spreadsheets

• Cost accounting techniques

• Budgeting for planning and control

• Standard costing and variance analysis

• Performance measurement and monitoring business performance

Source: ACCA’s Management Accounting syllabus and study guide, September 2026 to June 2027. Check the current guide on accaglobal.com before your exam.

• A two-hour computer-based exam.

• Section A: 35 two-mark objective test questions.

• Section B: three 10-mark multi-task questions on budgeting, standard costing and performance measurement.

ACCA reports no additions, deletions or amendments to the syllabus for September 2026 to June 2027.

MA is one of the three Applied Knowledge exams, the first level of the ACCA Qualification. All three are compulsory unless you hold an exemption. Exemptions from earlier study can reduce the number of exams you sit.

Performance Management (PM) builds directly on MA, and Advanced Performance Management (APM) follows at Strategic Professional level.

ACCA has announced a redesigned qualification from September 2027. See our ACCA course page for an overview, and check your own transition dates with ACCA.

• Students starting the ACCA Qualification

• Cost and management accounting staff

• Budget and planning assistants

Classes run in the classroom at our centre in Doha. Contact an advisor for the next MA batch, timings and fees, or to check which exams you need after exemptions.

You register as an ACCA student and book your exams with ACCA. Leaders provides the tuition. For the whole qualification, see ACCA in Qatar.