

IMA® has always recognized the importance of ethics in business, beginning with the organization's founding in 1919. IMA's Statement of Ethical Professional Practice serves as the organization's ethics code, to help guide the business and personal decisions made by IMA members and their organizations.


IMA encourages professionals working in private companies to participate in a study by the "Blue-Ribbon" Panel on Standard Setting for Private Companies. Members can also submit comments to IMA by September 10, 2010. See “Private company professionals encouraged to participate in Blue Ribbon Panel Study on U.S. GAAP” in IMA Online News.


Checkout IMA Member Stories and find out what IMA has done for members in their lives and careers. Hear how networking, certification, and resources can help you. Members: found your calling, climbed the ladder, met your spouse? Be Influential, share your story! http://bit.ly/9p3v6v


IMA is growing its body of knowledge in the Business Performance Management research practice area with the release of two new Statements on Management Accounting: Customer Profitability Management and Unrecognized Intangible Assets: Identification, Management, and Reporting. Both of these practitioner guides are available to members free of charge in the Library on LinkUp IMA (member login required).… more
IMA members and other professionals can enjoy improved access to many of IMA's valuable online resources and services. Last week, IMA proudly launched its new redesigned website, imanet.org. More...


IMA is holding its Call for Sessions for the 92nd Annual Conference & Exposition, June 4-8, 2011, at the Hilton Bonnet Creek Hotel in Orlando, Fla. The deadline for submissions (for either speakers or session ideas) is August 30. Complete details can be found on the IMA Conference website, www.imaconference.org.


Through a FAR-sponsored research project, four of the world’s leading corporations reveal how their senior and middle managers deal with the tensions and potential trade-offs arising from the simultaneous management of social, environmental, and financial performance. View the C-Suite report, “Managing Social, Environmental, and Financial Performance Simultaneously: What Can We Learn From Corporate Best Practices?,” by authors Marc J. Epstein, Adriana Rejc Buhovac, and Kristi Yuthas: http://linkupima.com/posts/c9aa3a63c2.


Despite the current economic conditions, accounting salaries rose slightly, according to members participating in IMA’s 21st Annual Salary Survey. The average salary of respondents in this year’s survey was $105,850. Professionals holding the CMA certification reported earning 22% more in average salary and 25% more in average total annual compensation than their noncertified counterparts. These and additional findings appear in the June 2010 issue of IMA’s Strategic Finance magazine: http://bit.ly/sal2ima10.


View photos from the 2010 Annual Dinner and IMA’s 91st Annual Conference & Exposition. Also checkout our highlights video.


CFO.com covers an ethics session at IMA's Annual Conference, "Ethics and the Bottom Line." (link: http://ow.ly/1VTPw)