Standards
The CBA Standards
The standards of professional practice the Corporate Business Alliance maintains across finance, accounting, management and technology. Each states what competent practice in a discipline consists of, and every CBA certification is examined against one.
- Fields
- 4
- Discipline standards
- 13
- Domains
- 72
- Learning objectives
- 414
What the standards consist of
CBA maintains three kinds of standard.
Discipline standards
One standard for each discipline CBA covers. Each divides the discipline into weighted domains and states, for every domain, the learning objectives a competent practitioner meets.
The discipline standardsThe Competency Framework
Three levels of competence — Certificate, Practitioner and Professional — each defined by the evidence it rests on: knowledge examined, applied work assessed, and professional experience confirmed.
The Competency FrameworkThe Code of Professional Conduct
The standard of behaviour expected of members and candidates: representing a credential accurately, acting with integrity in professional work, respecting confidence and disclosing conflicts.
The CodeThe discipline standards
Finance
2 standards
Accounting
2 standards
Management
5 standards
- CBA-AIMAI-Driven Management ProfessionalVersion 6.0 · 5 domains · 28 objectives
- CBA-COMOperations ManagerVersion 8.0 · 5 domains · 30 objectives
- CBA-CPMProcurement & Supply ManagerVersion 7.2 · 6 domains · 36 objectives
- CBA-CRPCompliance & Risk ProfessionalVersion 7.1 · 5 domains · 29 objectives
- CBA-DMPDigital Marketing ProfessionalVersion 1.0 · 6 domains · 35 objectives
Technology
4 standards
Using the standards
Written to be used
Every discipline standard is open to read in full, without an account, and to download as a typeset edition.
Employers
To define what a role requires, to structure development plans, and to know what a CBA credential held by a candidate or an employee evidences.
For employersTraining providers
To design courses to a published specification, domain by domain, so that what they teach and what is assessed are the same thing.
For learning partnersPractitioners
To see what competence in their discipline consists of, to find the gaps in their own practice, and to plan the professional development that closes them.
Learning- PublicationsEvery standard as a typeset edition, with practice notes on applying them.
- GlossaryThe terms used across the four fields, defined and cross-referenced.
- Self-assessmentRate yourself against each learning objective in a standard.
- ToolkitsWorking templates for the tasks the standards describe.
Maintained and versioned
Each discipline standard carries a version number. A change that would alter what competence in the discipline means — a new or reweighted domain, a changed objective — raises the version. Credentials already awarded keep the version their holder was assessed against, and the public register shows it.
CBA credentials are the body’s own professional certifications. They are not regulated qualifications, and CBA is not accredited to ISO/IEC 17024; the governance page records who is accountable for the standards and for assessment decisions.