If you are AAT fully qualified within 2 years you can get exemptions from most of the ICB examinations. You might be required to do a home assessment which is a scenario of a business. You get 14 days to complete the work and send it back (shouldn't take more than 2 hours).
With an AAT background, even without the exemptions, but using your prior learning you would / should be able to complete the new membership requirements (computerised / manual) in 6 - 7 months. I'm a certified accounting technician with ACCA, a Fellow of the International Association of Bookkeepers (well actually a former fellow), thirty years in accounting / bookkeeping, but because all this was more than 2 years back it didn't count for anything.
Result - I did all the ICB membership exams in 6 - 7 months. It would have been sooner, but (a) I had the summer holidays in there and (b) booked my level 3 manual exam and got my dates wrong (£75 down the drain, ouch!).
So, there is no reason why you couldn't do the exams in double-quick time.
I'm glad I actually did the exams rather than relying on previous prior learning / experience that could have been accredited. Why was I glad? Just allowed me the opportunity to brush up and refamiliarise myself with a few areas I hadn't touched upon for quite a few years.
Good luck with any exemptions though.
GrahamG
-- Edited by GrahamG on Saturday 18th of December 2010 08:51:12 PM
-- Edited by GrahamG on Saturday 18th of December 2010 08:51:46 PM
