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You could look at the members list to see how many ACCA members there are. You will find jobs occasionally from English/US companies wanting an ACA / ACCA / CIMA. But IFRS positions are common. But those are jobs for people with qualifications and experience.
ACCA otherwise has NO presence unfortunately in German speaking countries. You are on your own there if you want to train as an ACCA and you’ll have to work in industry. Germans either do a masters in business/finance and go to the various controller academy style qualifications. And / or they go to “big 4” companiea or tax advisors and do the “Steuerberater” qualification. Only managers try to do the full “auditor” qualification in Germany etc. You would have to explain to people why you want to become chartered and what that is.
Otherwise you will be asked why you don’t do the “Bilanzbuchhalterprüfung” which is tough…but it’s only a few exams (maybe 2-3).
The German speaking market is just different and the main thing is that you’re expected to do a “German” qualification and speak German fluently. Unless your CV is good and you’re at international company. But German companies and staff don’t understand all our definitions of part-qualified etc. You either have a finished qualification or training…or you don’t 🙂
Hope this helps. Hopefully acca will try to get more of a presence as IFRS is becoming just as important as HGB.
Often people just do a certificate in IFRS and use that to justify their credentials. Which is also good. But obviously it’s not as tough as doing all the ACCA financial reporting and audit papers.
Becky congrats! I also scraped through P5! Affiliate! Soooo happy and relieved!!!
Jacqueline I feel your pain. I see the white/grey screen. It’s like the affiliates page but the fields are student-related.
But in previous sessions people had the same experience. They had no access but passed.
I didn’t want or expect any clues…but I defo feel better about the wait now. But maybe I didn’t pass both. Who knows?
It does look like an affiliates page. OK I am starting to believe I might have made it. But people from previous sessions had no access and still passed (according to previous posts on the forum). So no one should get worked up about it. Maybe the screen isn’t an affiliates page.
Actually, it will feel like a long weekend!
I also see a grey and white page. But it’s only a student landing page. Doesn’t mean anything I guess. Can you only access a member page if you’re an affiliate? (i.e passed all exams and experience signed off and approved by ACCA). Or is there something between that for finished students? (i.e exams passed, but PER not approved by ACCA).
Maybe ACCA have just updated the layout. I still see an icon for entering for exams. If anything, being able to log on is a bad sign ?
That last rumour made me nervous, but it’s a browser glitch. On Explorer my bar is over 3/4 full. On Firefox it’s full. It means nothing other than what it is 🙂
I really don’t think it’s worth worrying about “signs” – there won’t be any. At least it’s only a 2.5 day wait now. The waiting is nearly over. And it’s the weekend so the time will fly by.
I’m waiting on P5 and P7. Spent so much time thinking about my P5 performance, that I forget actually how well the P7 exam went.
Either I’m 60%+ like most times, or I’m +45% borderline – which is what I’m always afraid of when an exam is a bit random, or my exam Timing could have been a little better.
I finished both papers, normally I’m ok then. But so afraid of being borderline. I don’t want to look at my books anymore (even though my notes would be perfect if I had to re-sit.
Best of luck to everyone!
One long week to go. Funny to think we normally have to wait 8-9 weeks, and 5 still weeks still seems like forever. Just glad I’ll be busy in work.
First off, it’s really cool that students can do exams FOUR times a year. We’ve never had that flexibility before. There never has been the need before for ACCA to do this.
We also have a large selection of high quality question books providing loads of questions from 2005 or so, with more particularly from 2010 onwards. Question practice is vital, but we have enough material to work with to prepare for exams.
What we don’t know is how time-demanding and tough it is for ACCA to prepare and publish exams four times a year…and do whatever reviews and checks they do. It is a constant cycle of exams and I guess everyone needs a break and a bit of time to do things properly. If this is one of the compromises for students getting extra flexibility in exam sittings, I’m all for it.
I was dissapointed not to see the September exams as I wanted to check a few things, but I can understand that there must be good reasons why the papers weren’t published yet.
I don’t think the reason is that they want to re-use questions in some form. That wouldn’t be sensible.
Just send your email to students@accaglobal.com and they will respond. I got an answer within a day.
What I still can’t get over.. No RI / EVA or cash flow analysis. No transfer pricing. No contribution calculations. No ratios. Eventhing I practiced a lot wasn’t examined. Today was like ALL theory.. BUT applied theory. So you just had the feeling you could waffle really easily if you didnt focus your answers.
It wasn’t a tough exam but I feel a bit..deflated…after all the preparation needed. If you studied six sigma, a bit about budgeting and A Scores you would have had a good a chance as any well prepared candidate.
P5 never fails to surprise I Guess.
My first attempt, I want my 50%. The effort doesn’t match what you can do in an exam. mixed feelings.
I’d say a lot of people were content with that paper though
Best of luck to all!
I was expecting way more numbers in that exam. I found Q4 very hard to understand (A score / Corp failure). Q1 was good and Q2 (budgeting) was OK for me…BUT I am worried Q4 dragged me down as I couldn’t generate proper numbers.
Definitely time pressured. I didn’t think it was too technical, not nearly as much on accouting standards compared to June (I got 45%)…BUT there were a lot of separate requirements and a LOT of writing involved and time management needed.
Q2 and part b of Q4 were really full of waffle in the text so you had to be sharp in picking out the points which was hard under time pressure.
But the exam wasn’t so bad. Business risks, engagement acceptance issues, fraud and money laundering, auditor liability limitation issues and criticising an auditor report. And the financial reporting had nothing more difficult than contingent liabilities as far as I can remember right now.
I mean you really can’t complain. But you’re tested on 30% of what you know… And you have no time to really write four technically competent answers.
I just want my 50% I’ve always worked hard for audit exams but find the exams nasty regarding time management.
Good luck to everyone!
I requested London SE and got Crystal Palace FC for P7 and Charlton FC for P5. Was hoping to do all my exams in one spot, but the locations are fairly convienient. Hopefully the last time I’ll have to do this 🙂
Haha I could manage 4,5 lines in 1.18 mins. Scary. And the sentence I copied wasn’t even finished!
I know the advice “write a little about a lot, not a lot about little”. It’s just hard to do the level of analysis you think you should and not write too much. I think I just need to split my points into (a) point identified (b) principle from IAS / IFRS and (c) what should be done based on the scenario. That’s 3-4 lines but I have to think more to focus on writing less waffle.
Thanks. I have a month to practice!
Hi Claire. I’ve started studying P1 and P3. Done the lectures and I’m into the question practice now. But just getting into it. Hopefully you passed both. Are you taking exams in June? I’d still be interested in teaming up to prepare for any exams or sharing notes etc. Let me know. All the best, Ian
Hi Claire. I am actually in Salzburg but normally sit my exams in Munich. I’m just starting on the Prof. stage now and wanted to do p1 and p3. I start a new job in November so I decided to skip this session but I’d be interested in maybe teaming up in the future. I can only prepare for the exams using distance learning etc so having someone in a city close by in a similar situation would be really cool. It’s a bit of a slog doing it on your own with no study support and not having other accountancy students around you. Message me if you’re interested to share learning materials or notes etc. i have everything I need already for those exams. And good luck with the study! Mfg, Ian
