- ACCA Diploma/ Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business:
Along the way to membership, you can gain these milestone qualifications:
You gain the ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business (RQF Level 4) when you pass:
- The Applied Knowledge exams of the ACCA Qualification
- The Foundations in Professionalism ethics module.
Depending on when you take your ethics module, you could get this award in 6-12 months.
Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business
You gain the Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business when you pass:
- All the Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills exams of the ACCA Qualification
- The Ethics and Professional Skills module.
Depending on when you take your exams and ethics module, you could get this award in 12-18 months.
- Certified Accounting Technician –
The Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) is a vocational qualification designed by ACCA that will allow you to support the work of professional accountants. The final-level examinations are
equivalent in standard to the first year of a university degree programme. Consequently, CAT graduates are allowed to move directly to Fundamentals Level (Skills Module).
The knowledge, skills and practical experience you have gained while studying the CAT qualification can exempt you from certain papers and count towards the practical experience requirement of the ACCA Qualification.
When you have fulfilled the criteria for Certified Accounting Technician status, ACCA will confer on you the title of Certified Accounting Technician and you will be able to use the letters ‘CAT’ after your name.
The CAT qualification could be your stepping stone to the ACCA Qualification and membership of the global body for professional accountants.
How to Earn CAT Qualification?
The ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business plus two exams from the following, and one year’s relevant practical experience in an accounting role, to show you can use your knowledge from the exams in the workplace.
Foundations in Taxation (FTX)
Learning Outcome: You’ll learn how tax affects individuals and businesses, and the basic principles and technical aspects of taxation.
Foundations in Financial Management (FFM)
Learning Outcome: You’ll learn how businesses finance their operations, plan and control cash flows, use working capital effectively, and delegate resources to long term investment activities.
Foundations in Audit (FAU)
Learning Outcome: You’ll learn about external audit, the audit process, and the skills needed to audit financial statements.
You’ll also need to complete a professionalism and ethics module, called Foundations in Professionalism, before you can be awarded any of the Foundation-level qualifications. This is an online, interactive module which will help you understand what it means to act professionally and ethically at work. It can be completed before or after your Foundation-level exams, at your own pace.
- ACCA Oxford Brookes BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting
Combine your professional achievements with a Research and Analysis Project (RAP) to gain a 360 credit Bachelor’s degree from a leading UK university. 330 credits are gained through passing your ACCA exams and the remaining 30 credits are gained through passing your RAP.
This degree has been jointly designed by the University and the ACCA to meet the requirements of a degree and also those of a professional qualification. As soon as you have completed the Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills exams, and the Ethics and Professional skills module, you may submit a Research and Analysis Project to Oxford Brookes University, which will be assessed by the University Business School staff.
Structureand eligibility
To be awarded the BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting you must:
- Be registered with Oxford Brookes University (i.e. opted in to the degree scheme) before passing any of the three ACCA Applied Skills exams FR, AA or FM
- Have passed the three ACCA Applied Skills exams FR, AA and FM
- Have passed, or gained exemption from, the other six subjects at the Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills levels, at least two months prior to the start of the submission period in which you are seeking to submit. Please note that conditional exemptions do not qualify you to submit the RAP.
- Complete the ACCA Ethics and Professional Skills module
- Complete and pass the Oxford Brookes University Research and Analysis Project
- Be up-to-date with the payment of your ACCA subscription fees. You cannot submit a RAP if your ACCA account is suspended.
The degree must be completed within 10 years of your first examination pass or the date of your first ACCA exemption being granted otherwise your eligibility will be withdrawn.
- MSc in Professional Accountancy (University of London)
The world is changing rapidly and professional accountants of the future need to think ahead. This means they’ll need to have the right combination of skills to meet the future’s changing needs.
To stand out in a crowded marketplace, we’re offering our ACCA students, affiliates and members the unique opportunity to gain an MSc in Professional Accountancy in addition to their ACCA Qualification.
This means that as well as having a professional qualification from the world’s most forward thinking accountancy body, they could also have a postgraduate qualification from the University of London, one of the world’s top ten universities.
See what some recent graduates have to say about their amazing experience.
ACCA is the only professional accountancy body that gives you the opportunity to gain an MSc from the University of London. And just as impressively, you can study the course from anywhere in the world.
Why the University of London?
- Founded in 1836, the university is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the UK – and it has a long history of making its degrees accessible to students all over the world.
- University of London students go on to shape the world we live in. Their past students include seven Nobel Prize winners, including Nelson Mandela, as well as leaders in business, industry and science.
- University of London has more than 50,000 students in 180 countries. So no need to relocate as you can study where you live with distance learning.
- With an MSc from one of the world’s top ten universities – and a professional qualification from the world’s most forward-thinking accountancy body, your CV will stand out to employers.
Who can apply?
There are three routes into the MSc in Professional Accountancy – and it gives you great opportunities, whatever stage you’re at in your career.
To start the MSc, students must already have passed all the Applied Skills exams and Strategic Professional Essentials exams.
Only need to carry out the Strategic Financial Project and complete the Global Issues for the Finance Professional module to gain the MSc.
Only need to carry out the Strategic Financial Project and complete the Global Issues for the Finance Professional module to gain the MSc.
For more information about how to register for the MSc in Professional Accountancy,