Hi Jo,

Usually it is the Level 1 that ACCA's need a refresher on. Of course this depends on what you have been doing in your job, but most wont have touched that syllabus for years.

There is an online mock for £10 you could just book and take, see how you do. Otherwise there are a range of books available, Kaplan's Practical Bookkeeping covers Levels 1 and 2 and is available in the ICB shop. Other ICB recommended books are Dr Peter Marshall's Mastering Bookkeeping which you can get from Amazon.

The higher levels should be closer to what you studied with ACCA. Have you thought about getting exemptions from some of the papers?

madmaz wrote:

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hopefully not breaking any rules as I didn't actually use it though I'd paid for it!!!

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Not sure I should say this but I actually turn a blind eye to sharing the downloaded past papers 

As long as your not re-selling them, I think it is all part of the bookkeeping community spirit.

Hi Joanne,

Couple of unrelated points to cover so bear with this thread.

I just used the old BPP study text for ACCA paper 1.1 (F3) to do my ICB levels I and II and got 99% and 98% so you might want to save your money on the study texts and just recycle your old ACCA fundamentals level studies.

I would however strongly advise doing a couple of past papers (which you now have) as it gives you a real feel for the ICB exams.

The other book that I found useful to get me into the right mindset was the AAT revision companion for units 1-4 (although your only interested here in units 1-3).

Here's an Amazon search that will list out all versions of it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_33?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=aat+foundation+revision+companion+for+units+1-4&sprefix=aat+foundation+revision+companion

As it's bookkeeping doesn't have to be the latest version that you get (mines the 2007 version).

As a seperate point, there are several ACCA people on here and the ICB / ACCA issue has caused quite a bit of hair pulling over the past couple of years.

The more draconian ACCA rules take precedence so where ICB bookkeepers can produce final accounts when they reach the right level due to your ACCA status unless you have an ACCA practice certificate you will be restricted to only being able to do bookkeeping to trial balance, VAT and Payroll!

There's currently an AAT amnesty where if your an ACCA member you can transfer directly to MAAT MIP so there's the option of getting a practice certificate without exams! (so long as you have a qualified accountant to vouch for you)... But it would mean you either stepping down from the ACCA or getting permission from them to use your AAT practice certificate.

I can't find the thread at the moment but someone posted on here a couple of months back that in such situation the ACCA also expect you to pay nearly £400 for their pratice certificate even though you are practicing under the AAT banner.

Have a read around some of the old ACCA threads on the site and you'll see what I mean.

If you do go down the ICB path for the computerised papers there's also the Computerised accounts book by Dr. Peter Marshall which is very good... My only issue with it is that the ICB mock in it doesn't come with answers. However the IAB and AAT exam papers in it do.

James mentions exemptions but the only exemption that the ICB will give is where you have passed paper F3 within the past two years and who, whose reached membership level passed F3 / 1.1 within two years even if you passed them all at first sitting.

look forwards to chatting later,

All the best,

Shaun.

Hi Hal,

think I'll be knocking on their door once I'm fully qualified as I just can't see how to get to a practice certificate with the ACCA.

How do you find them Hal?

I know that we've got several IFA's on here including Frauke and yourself (just assuming that your full IFA as you mentioned that you went that way in the AIA thread).