ACCA Home Study
simon2513
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Hi, I have completed AAT, I am thinking of carrying on to ACCA.
I completed AAT home study with support from my employer, where I am Finance Manager for a small transport company.
Is this an option for ACCA or one of the other awarding bodies, I obviously would struggle to go on work experience with an accountancy firm.
I am considering it both to help my company but also for my own career.
Would appreciate any feedback
I completed AAT home study with support from my employer, where I am Finance Manager for a small transport company.
Is this an option for ACCA or one of the other awarding bodies, I obviously would struggle to go on work experience with an accountancy firm.
I am considering it both to help my company but also for my own career.
Would appreciate any feedback
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Hi, I've done 12/14 ACCA exams as home study so perfectly possible. Happy to answer any questions you might have.0
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Hi Nps, thanks for that, what would be my first step, I have a staff appraisal so will be asking my employer for support (fee and time).0
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If your employer offers support I'd try and do taught classroom courses. I'm doing exams 13 and 14 via classroom as it is part of my new contract with my new employer. I've only done 2 days of classes so far but it is clear that I've seriously over studied for my earlier exams. In classes, the tutor basically cuts out massive portions of the syllabus telling us that it will never come up in the exam - previously I would have spent days learning it. My tutor is a marker for the exam I'm studying so she lays out exactly what the examiner is looking for and ignores everything else. Granted I will go to my final 2 exams far less prepared than previously, but I suspect my knowledge will be much more targeted towards the actual questions that come up.
But, whilst self funding I couldn't possibly have justified the course fees so self study was really the only option for me. I just bought the study texts (I used BPP), and made sure I completed all the questions in their revision kit (though all the questions are available on the ACCA website too). More recently, I've also dabbled with OpenTuition.com and Acowtancy.com, both of which are also good.
Once you've registered with ACCA, you just choose an exam centre and register for exams as you go (sittings in Mar, Jun, Sep and Dec).
You also gave the option of BPP/Kaplan distance/live courses but I don't think they're much cheaper than classroom lessons.0
