Many of us use excel in our daily life either as a student or in our workplace.

The practical questions which are asked in Financial and Performance papers are much standardized. They are either in a tabular format or in a column format which is in reality how we face as management accountants. 

If CIMA can arrange to conduct these examinations on a PC using MS Excel isn’t it going to benefit both the students as well as the institute?

01. A "read-only" type of question paper can be generated in Excel and each tab dedicated for a question.

02. This will help students avoid repeating the question labels in answers as they can straight away develop a format for the answers by pasting most of the content from the question paper. Ex income statement.

03. They can save lot of time and this can also be compensated by answering many more questions thereby testing the student's abilities more. 

04. This would be "real world" experience for the students as they would face such scenarios in the corporate world. 

05. The examination centres of course can provide such facilities as they would have the computer labs and cyber facilities.

06. This would benefit both students and the institute as this would add lot of value to the very global CIMA qualification as we go more paper friendly and use IT to the best of its benefits.

Please leave your suggestions and comments and what you think if this could be possible and what challenges we as students and the institute can face.

Also can some one from the institute let us know if any such developments are in progress and if not is there any such feasibility for such IT enabled enhancements.

Thanks, Abdul