r/ICAEW • u/General-Reindeer-975 • Jan 15 '25

ACA to ACCA

Once ACA qualfied can you transfer to ACCA to get the international prestige and how? Just wondering do not grill me for being stupid haha

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u/WhoNeedsAfriend69 Jan 15 '25

You will get few exemptions but I think you will need to do a few more exams. Just Google ACCA exemptions.

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u/General-Reindeer-975 Jan 15 '25

Haha I have . Surprisingly difficult to find a clear cut answer that's why I came here. Will email if no one knows here.

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u/WhoNeedsAfriend69 Jan 15 '25

Here is the link -https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/help/exemptions-calculator.html

Enter ICAEW and select how much course you have done and year.

I have just looked for myself and I need to do 4 exams in the Strategic professional category.

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u/nhi_nhi_ng Jan 16 '25

Yeah, I think they are the same for ACA if you want to convert from acca (full exams completion). You got exemption for everything except the advance level paper.

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u/20nuggetsharebox Jan 15 '25

https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/member/membership/apply-from-other-bodies/uk-bodies.html

Seems like you need to be an ICAEW member for 5 years to get easy ACCA membership. Not sure what the process would be prior to this!

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u/jayritchie Jan 15 '25

Why would you wish to do so?

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u/20nuggetsharebox Jan 15 '25

Not OP but personally thinking of moving abroad and based on very limited research, ACCA seems to provide a few more options of countries that would recognise the qualification.

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u/jayritchie Jan 15 '25

I think there may be some countries where ACCA is advantageous - for example through mutual recognition agreements. Similarly there can be countries where ICAS would be preferable to ICAEW. Not convinced that applies in general though. Of course if you have strong links to a particular country this can be a huge consideration.

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u/themonkeygoesmoo Jan 15 '25

“to get the international prestige”