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Certification body
The world’s leading international management accounting organization, founded in Buffalo in 1919 as the American Institute of Cost Accountants and renamed IMA in 1957, is headquartered in Montville and has regional offices in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and India. The latest salary survey shows that globally, the median salary of CMA holders is 62% higher than that of non-CMA holders, and the median total salary is 67% higher. In various industries, financial directors and chief financial officers generally have CMA certificates. As a globally respected professional accounting association, IMA is committed to changing the traditional financial thinking mode through research, professional competency certification, continuing education, social networks, etc., serving the global financial management industry, promoting corporate performance optimization, and achieving members’ personal career development.

Organizers
Galapagos Academy was jointly founded in Shanghai, China in 2022 by Professor Li Yi, Professor Shi Han, Professor Liu Tianming, Professor Wang Shihua, Ms. Sun Dan, Ms. Yang Lei, Ms. Zhou Danping and other senior people. It is a high-end education and training institution for corporate sustainable development that has obtained the qualification of running a private vocational school in the People’s Republic of China in accordance with the law. It is also a member of the Shanghai Asia-Pacific Economic and Information Talent Training Center, the initiator of the Digital Greening Collaborative Development Research Center of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and the initiator of the Yangtze River Delta Dual Carbon Development Research Institute.

Since its establishment, focusing on the frontier fields of various professional fields of corporate sustainable development, relying on the increasingly strong faculty team and the pursuit of excellence in the school-running philosophy, the college has successively delivered multi-dimensional, high-quality, customized high-end education and research services to 44 Fortune 500 companies and nearly 100 Chinese listed companies. The cumulative number of trainees has exceeded 1,000, which is well received by economic and social market entities.