CIMA - Accountants and perhaps people who have done the course through ICS?

Kayalana99

AP007 wrote: »

No but when you do ACCA or CIMA or AAT LOL they may mind

good luck

Thank you, but as I said this is an online fourm not a ACCA test. If I took a second to check over what I was writing I could of picked out everything the same as you.

I'm just a very laid back person.

CruisingSaver

Kayalana

I was trying to advise you appropriately as a qualified ACCA accountant with over 25 years' experience in financial accounting.

I really hope you succeed but you're coming from a position of zero knowledge in the area with only GCSEs to your name and that is why I advised that you study AAT first.

No-one is being pushy about AAT, but you seem to only want to hear that you should do ACCA.

CS

MrsE_2

CruisingSaver wrote: »

Kayalana

I was trying to advise you appropriately as a qualified ACCA accountant with over 25 years' experience in financial accounting.

I really hope you succeed but you're coming from a position of zero knowledge in the area with only GCSEs to your name and that is why I advised that you study AAT first.

No-one is being pushy about AAT, but you seem to only want to hear that you should do ACCA.

CS

I did the AAT, I did think I would go on to ACCA, but I never did.
I have a responsible job in the public sector I really enjoy. The AAT (level 2,3,4) got me that.

CruisingSaver

MrsE wrote: »

I did the AAT, I did think I would go on to ACCA, but I never did.
I have a responsible job in the public sector I really enjoy. The AAT (level 2,3,4) got me that.

Proves what I said in my initial post that AAT is a well regarded qualification in its own right.

It also provides a fantastic grounding in Finance!

CS

AP007

CruisingSaver wrote: »

Proves what I said in my initial post that AAT is a well regarded qualification in its own right.

It also provides a fantastic grounding in Finance!

CS

You can be a PL or SL Manager or Bookkeeper, Accounts Assistant etc need we all go on

Kayalana99

I understand that doing the AAT would make the ACCA easier to complete and open more doors for me in the short term but end day I just don't have the money to spend 2k-3k extra as well as doing the ACCA.

I know that I want to do the ACCA as it has come up before but I never found a way I could do it without going to collage/uni but have now found a route through Kaplan & the CIMA was just an alternative which I have obvouisly now dismissed.

I have more time on my hands then money and if I struggle with the ACCA I will have the time to do my research and get my head round things and its all done in small modules at a time (I take each exam as it comes with Kaplan).

Either way, I am doing the FIA before I do the ACCA now so I won't be starting from nothing as its the only way to get on the ACCA without A levels which would probally cost me a similar amount anyway.

I did appreicate your orignal post and advice, I hope I didn't offend you.

Edit: I just looked at the pricing and its looking at 5k for the AAT alone including exam fee's. Its just not going to happen.

notanewuser

You have time on your hands now, but with 2 under 2 you're going to struggle!!!!

CruisingSaver

No Kayalana you didn't offend me in the slightest .

I know how hard it is to gain the qualification and when you described your circumstances I stuck my oar in to advise you so that you stood the best possible chance of succeeding.

Good luck!

CS

Any

I know there was also funding available for some people to do AAT. Perhaps there still is? Without trying to be pushy with AAT, ACCA is high level professional qualification and the beginnings are taken very fast, assuming a lot of knowledge. It is a killer. I know, I've done it! And I had previous education in accounting!! Without trying to be unsupportive, a lot of people dropped off the course within first five exams..
Also with AAT you then get exemptions from first few ACCA exams. And I know few people who do it completely home study only. If you have time on your hands...
Perhaps go to your local library (ours at least have them) and pick up few ACCA text books and assess whether you can learn EVERYTHING in that book plus going through all practice questions from previous years (also published). It takes hours to process (and I mean a lot of hours) these questions, actually knowing the stuff, impossible if you have to go back to the book all the time.
Pass rates are around 49-60%, and bare in mind a lot of these people are actually previous AAT and also graduates. 2011 pass rate for P tax paper was some 29%…
I don't want to scare you, but please please go into this fully informed and researched, to know what you are getting into and be prepared for it.
Good luck what ever you decide!!

Any

And by the way - ACCA is not taken in small modules. Each of these ,small' modules book has around 800 pages and the examiner still manages to test something you feel you've never heard of before...
I sat an exam where examiner gave question worth 20% of the whole exam that covered 1 page in the main text...
Now that was fun. Not.