The Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Bangladesh (popularly known as ICMA) has been playing an important role in the fields of accounting, finance, management and business in our country. This institute produces every year a good number of professionals who later contribute to their respective fields. Minimum requirement for entering this course is a bachelor's degree which should be changed, I think.
In our country Chartered Accountancy (CA) is another popular and honourable professional degree in which brilliant A-level and HSC (GPA-5 both in SSC & HSC) passed students can get admission.
An A-level passed student can also enrol in the world famous British ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) course. Besides, as far as I can remember the entry requirement of CMA was HSC in the initial period. In the past it needed two or three years which needs three or four years now for degree (pass) and bachelor's degree holders (with honours) respectively. After graduation a student has to look for a job or a bride/ bridegroom. So it is hardly possible to think about CMA then. But we need a huge number of professional accountants.
So, HSC/ A-level should be the minimum entry requirement for CMA. It will save time, money and energy of the students. An elementary course of six months can be introduced for HSC/ A-level passed students.