ACCA The Accountancy Qualification to Take You Places

The efficient use of financial information is crucial to business success. Accountants hold the key for many businesses, with company directors relying on their finance professionals to help them formulate business strategies and steer them through new economic, legislative and commercial risks. ACCA is committed to providing the expertise they require to remain competitive.

Employers value the all-round financial expertise provided by ACCA's professional qualification. Pan Philippou, Managing Director for Diesel UK describes ACCA as "instantly recognisable around the world, a first class indication of professional competence in the world of finance and accounting". For him, his ACCA qualification contributed directly to his career development: "The diversity of the companies that I worked for underlines the portability of the qualification that finally led me to Diesel and the world of fashion".

Flexibility and choice
ACCA’s study and training are designed to be as flexible as possible - offering you real choices. With the widest range of study options and an unrivalled dedication to utilising new technologies, your progress through the qualification can be as flexible as you need it to be. Most significantly, you have the freedom to gain your work experience in public practice or in the public or corporate sectors, and are able to change both employer and sector should you desire a broader base of experience. This is supported by a syllabus that is unique in offering specialist papers, ensuring you gain a solid foundation of financial knowledge as well as a firm grounding in the broader-based business skills that will prepare you for senior financial and management positions. It represents the ultimate in integrity, flexibility and true vocational opportunity.

Practical experience
The theme of flexibility continues into the practical experience requirements. The application of your theoretical knowledge in the workplace is crucial to the development of the management, personal and technical skills that are central to career success as an ACCA accountant. The three years relevant supervised experience can take place before, during or after the ACCA study and examinations.

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