spooky, they don't get anything for 27 hours and then get two within two minutes!
lol,
Shaun.
-- Edited by Shamus on Tuesday 5th of June 2012 10:58:50 AM
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Yeh it is definitely tough working and studying at the same time. Sometimes feels never ending but its all worth it in the end. That's what I keep telling myself.
As you rightly say I am also hoping ACCA relax their rules just as CIMA/CGMA have done.
I am too in the banking sector working as a Financial Analyst, which is basically an accounting field and the ACCA qualification is the norm to have.
Hopefully by the time I get closer to qualifying, ACCA have relaxed their rules. Hopefully anyway. Lol
-- Edited by Kishan on Tuesday 5th of June 2012 12:36:50 PM
As you are already a member of the AAT you will need to call them as you don't need the new AAT membership number and the fee is likely to be less than the quoted £173.
two key points seem to be that you will need references, a years quntifiable experience and to sit the professional competence test.
The above assumes that this is for permenanent employment purposes as for self employment ACCA regulation 8 will still prevent you from offering anything beyond bookkeeping to trial balance, payroll and VAT services
hth,
Shaun.
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no it's P2 and it's the last one :)... Oh god, what am I going to do when I don't have exams to look forwards to!... Maybe I'll sign up with the ATT to continue my periodic exam addiction!
The downside is that work has got in the way of study even more than usual these last few months and exam week I'm inundated (kept exam day free but so much going on around that) so I may defer the exam to the December sitting... Not that run up to January is going to be in anyway a busy time!!!
On the practicing certificate front I've also joined the IFA and fully believe that at some stage (when I've fully got the ACCA qualification) I'm, going to have to give up ACCA but I'm deferring that decision for as long as possible in the hope that the ACCA get realistic over regulation 8 and do a CIMA (sorry, CGMA) where basically so long as you make no mention of your affiliation to them in anyway then provided you are adequately covered by another body you can offer pretty much all services to clients without being supervised.
Why do I want ACCA if I can't use it you ask?
In the day job I work as a consultant in the banking sector and for the role that I fill ACCA or CIMA is pretty much a mandatory. I snook in via the experience backdoor from working in a management consultancy (which I also got into by experience rather than qualifications) but at some stage you get to the point where your previous consultancy affiliations counts less than the letters.
I've been there myself where the first thing that you look for before experience in the CV's that hit your desk is the body that someone is a member of so lacking those letters I know works against people (but of course, then it has to be backed up by relevant experience).
So, that's why I want ACCA even if I can't use the letters in my practice role... Although I would be lieing if I said that I didn't eventually want to be able to use them if I can gain sufficient appropriate experience post qualification... Which implies at some stage working FOR someone else which I haven't done since 1990!
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