Hi there.
Thought I had posted this earlier but I did not - apologies if it posts twice.
I am an ACCA member and have the relevant experience to gain my PC. I am only looking to set up as a bookkeeper for the time being but wanted peoples thoughts on getting the PC so I can avoid the Hmrc fees for the Money laundering registration (as I believe ACCA would be a supervisory body if I have the pc) Please correct me if I am wrong
My main issue is how can I get the pc without arousing my managers suspicions that I am looking to leave the business? I am not and I am able to have a side business as long as it does not clash with the main employment. But I still want to avoid any issues my manager may feel. Any thoughts?
Thank you all
Hi there. Thought I had posted this earlier but I did not - apologies if it posts twice. I am an ACCA member and have the relevant experience to gain my PC. I am only looking to set up as a bookkeeper for the time being but wanted peoples thoughts on getting the PC so I can avoid the Hmrc fees for the Money laundering registration (as I believe ACCA would be a supervisory body if I have the pc) Please correct me if I am wrong My main issue is how can I get the pc without arousing my managers suspicions that I am looking to leave the business? I am not and I am able to have a side business as long as it does not clash with the main employment. But I still want to avoid any issues my manager may feel. Any thoughts? Thank you all
Hi Ally,
Correct, ACCA PC overrides HMRC.
Once a practicing member you end up with a mark against your name so cannot avoid being seen however, your go to response should be that you are preparing to be made a partner now that you are qualified and you know that to be a partner in a practice you need a practice certificate... Sorted
Good luck. make sure that you photocopy everything before sending it to the ACCA. I hit a snag where the person dealing with my case went on maternity.
all the best,
Shaun.
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Your earlier post suggested your experience we not enough so I take it your current boss is able to sign off your experience.
Either way go ACCA, it's cheaper than HMRC, much less hassle than HMRC and one less thing you have to deal with the dreadful HMRC for. Besides surely if you can get a PC with ACCA then you get one for the better reasons than the ones given above.
Plus are also then able to do more income generating work than bookkeeping.
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Thank you both.
I do have the experience to get the PC signed off. The main issue is my lack of confidence (a whole other issue) and as I am naturally a nervous and shy person, this is the reason I am worried about approaching this with my manager. The worry I want to leave May cross his mind! But definitely much cheaper - and less hassle to do this then going through Hmrc.
I think I would like to stick to bookkeeping initially even with the PC. Just because I have the experience, I do not feel confident to start off with that to begin with. But that could be me overthinking things rather than being business savvy!
Thank you guys.
Overthinking can get you out of some tight spots in this game. But you will have to toughen up as once you start getting the self employed/business owners on your books you will find that you have to reign them in like a bunch of 5year olds after a sugar fuelled birthday party.
Sure you will be ok once you get started. Don't take too many bookkeeping clients on otherwise you will have major problems upping your prices to chartered accountancy levels. Unless of course you want to just buy my practice cos after today I've changed my mind again and want out of this game!!!
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Overthinking can get you out of some tight spots in this game. But you will have to toughen up as once you start getting the self employed/business owners on your books you will find that you have to reign them in like a bunch of 5year olds after a sugar fuelled birthday party.
Sure you will be ok once you get started. Don't take too many bookkeeping clients on otherwise you will have major problems upping your prices to chartered accountancy levels. Unless of course you want to just buy my practice cos after today I've changed my mind again and want out of this game!!!
No probs babs
For training business owners I find a car battery and pair of jump leads to be particularly effective for making them remember the dcumentation that they need to give you
Reading your last line I'm taking it that your car battery went flat yesterday!
I'm prefering life back on the corporate side but that has its frustrations as well... If I hear "but its always been done that way" one more bloody time I'm going postal.
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I had a major stroppy meltdown the last time I heard those 'but its always been done that way' words last time they were said to me - about 2 months ago! I said 'but you only started doing this xyz 2 years ago, so you didnt do it that way before you started doing it that way did you?' and went on to cite about 20 other things they have started doing in the last x months......not heard that phrase since (yet!)
Yep flat battery should hopefully be recharged tomorrow and my car boot refilled with jump leads as the old ones have burnt out and are in the crystal ball shed (I had to buy a new one of those as well!)
I dont want to go back to corporate neither. The one who is still left there is desperate for a package to help her escape and more of it seems to be being shipped to India!!!
I can retire soon anyway!!!!!!! (early obviously!!!!!!!!!!!!)
So glad I didnt get into this game at 16 like I originally wanted to!!
Right - bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I had a major stroppy meltdown the last time I heard those 'but its always been done that way' words last time they were said to me - about 2 months ago! I said 'but you only started doing this xyz 2 years ago, so you didnt do it that way before you started doing it that way did you?' and went on to cite about 20 other things they have started doing in the last x months......not heard that phrase since (yet!)
Yep flat battery should hopefully be recharged tomorrow and my car boot refilled with jump leads as the old ones have burnt out and are in the crystal ball shed (I had to buy a new one of those as well!)
I dont want to go back to corporate neither. The one who is still left there is desperate for a package to help her escape and more of it seems to be being shipped to India!!!
I can retire soon anyway!!!!!!! (early obviously!!!!!!!!!!!!)
So glad I didnt get into this game at 16 like I originally wanted to!!
Right - bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crystal balls... Typical... We take you out of banking and your still thinking about Futures! Hope that you didn't try to get any capital allowances on the Crystal Ball shed!!!
On the flipp side of the senternce about the paths taken at 16 if you had gone down this path first you wouldn't have been able to look at the silliness as objetively as you do so would not have known how wrong this is in so many ways.
Lol, not so much a case of the grass is greener on the other side of the fence but rather, it's just as shitty brown there as it is here.
You would get bored being a woman wot lunches. Give you a week and you would have another business started.
... Mmm... I keep forgetting that at some stage we're allowed to retire! Seems that option isn't really applicable to those who work for themselves.
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Hi all. Happy Friday! Hope you guys are well.
I approached my manager about the PC - explained that although we dont work in a practice, the corporate environment had been a good sound board etc. He did query my personal plans (about wanting to leave) but I was honest and upfront that this is my personal
Ambition and will not clash with my work (in accordance to my contract)
In all honesty, I do not think he was impressed! Maybe doubts my plans? Then he saw that ACCA will need to contact his accounting body if he is not ACCA (he is ACA) He said he will review it all and get back to me.
Can he say no? Shall I word it differently when I speak to him next? Am I overthinking things?
Apologies for going on. Well aware this may not be the right forum to go on about my issues but you guys are way more savvy about this (also my husband who is completely non-finance related, told me I should have lied and said I need it as part of my ACCA) Yes- he was only partly joking!
Crystal balls... Typical... We take you out of banking and your still thinking about Futures! Hope that you didn't try to get any capital allowances on the Crystal Ball shed!!!
On the flipp side of the senternce about the paths taken at 16 if you had gone down this path first you wouldn't have been able to look at the silliness as objetively as you do so would not have known how wrong this is in so many ways.
Lol, not so much a case of the grass is greener on the other side of the fence but rather, it's just as shitty brown there as it is here.
You would get bored being a woman wot lunches. Give you a week and you would have another business started.
... Mmm... I keep forgetting that at some stage we're allowed to retire! Seems that option isn't really applicable to those who work for themselves.
Oops, don't know how but I missed this post.
I don't even do ladies wot lunch anymore, it's ladies wot go out in the evening!! We also had to own up to one of the husbands that we have more than just coffee!! He long suspected, but could never prove his theory.
Plus, I can now finally officially take a (obviously very very early) pension, as of today.
-- Edited by Cheshire on Friday 21st of June 2019 11:13:28 PM
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Joanne
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in order to sign off at least 4620 hours done over a minimum of three years the practice must be registered as a ACCA practice certificate training provider. If he has registered as a training provider and he is not training anyone then contact the ACCA to discuss this and they would have words with him.
If he is not registered as an ACCA approved practice certificate training provider then he cannot sign off your PCTR.
Do you already have all of your documentation filled out in six month intervals over a period of three years ready for the practice principle to sign?
The ACCA will go through every item on the PCTR to confirm that there is sufficient evidence to merit the sign off of that element of competence so be prepared to reword, get it resigned and resubmitted.
My first knock back was that I did not realise that the five mandatory elements in section 1 (professional conduct) needed to be signed off in every half year cycle. I had assumed that once they had been signed off in one then I was covered for all of the others and didn't need to remention them (I was wrong). Just one for you to watch out for.
As for it not being the right forum... The forum is owned by a chartered practice. The moderator (me) is an FCCA, and we have a number of ACCA, ACA and CIMA members so don't let the name of the site put you off.
Good luck Ally,
all the best,
Shaun.
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A mate of mine recently cashed in his pension from when he worked in a railway engineering works in his late teens/early twenties. Been pretty much s/e since with no pension provision so was highly pleased when he got just short of 25k (before tax), having expected somewhere around £10-£12k
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A mate of mine recently cashed in his pension from when he worked in a railway engineering works in his late teens/early twenties. Been pretty much s/e since with no pension provision so was highly pleased when he got just short of 25k (before tax), having expected somewhere around £10-£12k
Belated thank you John.
I havent even had a prediction on mine yet, need to work out what I should be doing!
I know a couple of folk with no pension provision, must admit that would be pretty scary now, but seemed a million miles off when mine was first set up.
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Congratulations Shaun. I remember how hard you worked and the hoops you had to jump through to become ACCA. It also goes to show how long I have been away.
as once you start getting the self employed/business owners on your books you will find that you have to reign them in like a bunch of 5year olds after a sugar fuelled birthday party. 
