ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
WHY ACCA
ACCA is the world’s largest accountancy body with more than 200000 members and 500000 students across 176 countries. For more than 115 years ACCA have been helping ambitious, talented people like you to build exciting and rewarding finance career all over the world.
By choosing to study an ACCA qualification you’ll not only get the skills you need to become a forward thinking finance professionals, you’ll gain a globally recognized qualification which will open doors to career all over the world.
ELIGIBILITY
- Applied knowledge level: +2 pass
- Applied skill level: completed knowledge level or B.com graduate
- Professional level: completed skill level
DURATION
- 3 years for plus two completed students
BODY
- ACCA (association of chartered certified accountants)
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
- Financial analyst
- Forensic accountant
- Corporate treasurer
- Auditor
- Cost accountant
- Credit control manager
- Tax accountant
- Management accountant
SYLLABUS
Applied knowledge level
The applied knowledge level is an exceptional introduction to the world of finance and accounting, providing you with a broad understanding of essential accounting techniques. Any students who have completed +2 can appear for this level.
There are three applied knowledge papers;
- F1- Business and Technology(BT)
- F2- Management Accounting(MA)
- F3- Financial Accounting(FA)
Applied skill level
The applied skill level build on your existing knowledge and understanding developing strong, broad and practical finance skills
There are 6 papers include in this level
- F4- Corporate and Business law(LW)
- F5- Taxation(TX)
- F6- Performance Management(PM)
- F7- Financial Reporting(FR)
- F8- Audit & Assurance(AA)
- F9- Financial Management(FM)
Strategic professional level
By the time a student clears the skill level, they are generally aware of their subject interests, career opportunities and job profits. As a result, they are able to make informed choices about the optional subjects they want to move forward with. At the professional level, ACCA encourages students to develop specialization in the subject of their choice. Out of the six subjects at the professional level two subjects are mandatory. Out of the remaining four optional subjects a student has to choose any two.
Mandatory papers
- P1- Strategic Business Leader(SBL)
- P2- Strategic Business Reporting(SBR)
Optional papers
- P3- Advanced Financial Management(AFM)
- P4- Advanced Performance Management(APM)
- P5- Advanced Taxation(ATX)
- P6- Advanced Audit & Assurance(AAA)
EXAM PATTERN
All exams are computer based (CBE).
Applied knowledge level
All 3 papers are 100% MCQ (multiple choice question) based exams and the passing percentage is 50. Student can book and appear for the exams on demand.
Applied skill level
Corporate and Business Law is a 100% MCQ (multiple choice
question) based exam and student needs to secure 50% to clear the exam. All the other
five exams in this level consist of 60% MCQ (multiple choice question) and 40%
subjective questions. A student needs to secure 50% to clear the exam individually.
Exams happen once in every quarter (March, June, September, December).
Strategic professional level
All four papers (two mandatory and two optional) are 100% subjective exams with a passing percentage of 50 per exam. Exams happens once in every quarter (March, June, September, December).