ACCA Information

ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) stands to provide Chartered Certified Accountant qualification (ACCA) as a global professional accounting body. The main resources to crack the ACCA exam are available on its official website: www.accaglobal.com. The website provides relevant and up-to-date content and concepts which can help students to crack ACCA.

On this page, we will explore information on exams, Ethics and Professional Skills Module (EPSM) and Practical Experience Requirement (PER) and links to important ACCA resources to help you gain your ACCA qualification.

How does the ACCA Qualification work?

Students’ progress through three elements of the ACCA Qualification on their journey to ACCA membership, these are:

ACCA Exams
An Ethics and Professional Skills module
A Professional Experience Requirement

ACCA Exams

Applied Knowledge

The Applied Knowledge exams provides students with a broad introduction to the world of finance and develop your essential understanding and techniques in accounting. These exams are:

Business and Technology (BT)
Management Accounting (MA)
Financial Accounting (FA)

Applied Skills

The Applied Skills exams build on existing knowledge and understanding and develop strong, broad and practical finance skills required of future strategic professional accountant in any sector or industry. These exams are:

Corporate and Business Law (LW)
Performance Management (PM)
Taxation (TX)
Financial Reporting (FR)
Audit and Assurance (AA)
Financial Management (FM)

Strategic Professional

The Strategic Professional exams prepare students for future leadership positions. They develop the strategic vision using your unique blend of technical, ethical and professional skills. And you can specialise in areas that best suit your career ambitions. Students must complete both Essentials exams and choose two of the Options. These exams are:

Essentials

Strategic Business Leader (SBL)
Strategic Business Reporting (SBR)

Options

Advanced Financial Management (AFM)
Advanced Performance Management (APM)
Advanced Taxation (ATX)
Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA)

Ethics and Professional Skills Module

Students are required to complete our Ethics and Professional Skills module which develops in students the complete range of skills that employers told us they need. By introducing students to the full spectrum of advanced ethical and professional skills and exposing them to realistic business situations, our students are ready to shine with recruiters and be really credible in the workplace.

Find out more about the EPSM Module here: www.accaglobal.com/ie/en/student/ethics

Professional Experience Requirement

Being a confident, inspiring and trusted professional comes with experience so to qualify as an ACCA member students must complete 36 months’ relevant work experience and achieve 9 performance objectives.Your time in a relevant role and performance objectives need to be signed off by your practical experience supervisor. This practical experience requirement lets students put their knowledge learnt through their students into practise, all in a supported and practical environment.

Find out more about PER here: www.accaglobal.com/ie/en/student/practical-experience

ACCA Global

To find out more about important dates, fees, exam exemptions and any other information relating to your ACCA application and exams go to:
www.accaglobal.com/ie/en/student/getting-started/acca-qualification-structure

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