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Qualifying as a Chartered Accountant
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ACA – A combination of four components
Work experience
Initial professional development
Structured training in ethics
Examinations
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Entry requirements and entry routes
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The ACA – minimum entry requirements
• Minimum entry requirements:
– Two A levels (or international equivalent) and three GCSE passes including Maths and English
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The ACA – multiple entry routes
• Graduate route
– Don’t need maths/accounting at A-level
– 84% of ACA students have a degree
– Majority of these have a non-relevant degree – eg, law, civil engineering, modern languages, history…
• School- leavers (A-levels or international equiv.)
• Fast Track programmes (from AAT)
• Certificate in Finance, Accounting and Business
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Exams
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ADVANCED STAGE
6 application modules – paper-based exam
Each 2.5 hours long
Case study
4 hour assessment
Exams
PROFESSIONAL STAGE
2 Advanced Stage modules – paper-based
Each 3.5 hours long
6 knowledge modules – computer-based exam
Each 1.5 hours long
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ACA exam structure
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Credit for prior learning / exemptions
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Credits / exemptions available
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Initial professional development
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Initial professional development
Personal effectiveness
Technical and functionalexpertise
Professional judgement
Business awareness
Ethics and professionalism
Set up to ensure continuous development in the following key areas that define a chartered accountant
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Structured training in ethics
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Structured training in ethics
• Web-based interactive programme
• Updated ethics guidance and activities
• Three stages designed to be spread across training
• Ethics also integrated into exams
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Work experience requirements
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Work experience requirements
• 450 days of ‘real’ work experience of a financial, business or commercial matter
• Can include but is not limited to one of (or multiple) of:– Accounting– Audit/Assurance– Taxation– Financial Management– Insolvency– Information Technology
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Employers – they include:
• Practice: From Big Four to sole practitioners
• Public sector: National Audit Office, Ministry of Justice, Department of Transport, Thames Water, Portsmouth City Council, Wales Audit Office
• Financial services: Barclays, American Express, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Royal SunAlliance, Royal Bank of Scotland, Old Mutual
• Business: T-Mobile, BUPA Care Homes, Barratt Homes, British Land Company
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ACA training across the world
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ChinaOffice. Local tuition and exam centres for top-up ACA course from CICPA qualification
Cyprus and GreeceLocal tuition and exam centres
MalaysiaOffice. Local tuition and exam centres
RussiaLocal tuition and exam centres
UKHQ. Local tuition and exam centres across UK
Europe
Tuition at selected centres in France, Germany etc
Singapore Office. Local tuition
Pakistan Tuition. Exam centres
GulfTuition in Dubai and BahrainRomania
Local tuition and exam centres
Where can students train for the ACA
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