CMA

Catalin:
Do not waste your money. You can not be accepted, if your accounting degree is from China. You must finish 13 prerequisite courses. By the way, the CA program is very tough for Chinese.80%-90% chinese students can not graduate from the program.

CMA

You can call Mcgill to ask them directly. I had same situation with you. I hold B & M degree in accounting. When I applied CA diploma ( 5 year ago).they refused me since I had no Canadian education background.For the CA, I spent 2 years to obtain accounting degree again.Fortunately, I transfer to CMA on the half way.In Montreal, only 2 Chinese from mainland pass CA (1995-2002).The difference of CA and CGA,CMA is that CA can issue audit report but it is impossible for a Chinese CA to issue audit report in Canada. there are 29 CA members in my office but only 2 senior partner have the right to issue audit report.For CA, you must spend 2 years to finished the diploma( full time). The opportunity cost is 70-80K.

CMA

the exams of CGA, CMA, CPA are very easy for most Chinese.The problem is how to find related job. CMA focus on business plan and cost accounting. My designation is CMA but my job is auditor because I can not find management accounting position. Like most CA, I can only sign working paper.The salary in CA firm only depend on experience not designation in first few years. If you can not speak perfect English, it is impossible for you to earn high salary.If possible, I suggest you guys try to find job and forget about CA,CGA, CMA temporarily. The accounting Job market is going down and the experience is most important.