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Just to pass on some motivation: I failed F5 in December but I passed it in March!!! I hate that exam, I don’t like the topics, I really struggle to understand it and memorise it, but it’s done!!! One less!! Now I will try to squeeze another exam in June, if not I take a rest, as I want to enjoy the nice weather! We can do it!!!
Hi,
After completing ACCA you are a Chartered Certified Accountant, which is exactly what ACCA stands for and for what I understood ICAS gives the title of Chartered Accountant too.
If you search on google “difference between ICAS and ACCA”, you will find lots of websites explaining it. For what I read, they are the same, both hard, both prestigious, ACCA more recent than ICAS, but probably more recognised internationally.
To be honest, if I have to think about my colleagues as example, they are all ACCA or CIMA qualified… I don’t know anyone who is ICAS qualified!
But please, if someone knows more, share your knowledge!Hi Erin,
Thanks for your reply!
So….. I am still of the idea that if something major happens in my life in the next two years (for ex. a baby) then I will stop after the F papers, at least temporarily. Otherwise, I will try to complete it all as soon as possible.
I passed F2 in December and F3 in March. I am going to do F4 next week. Then, I think I will take a break for the September sessions as I’m moving to a different county, so there are too many things happening at the moment (find a new house, a new job etc). But once that’s sorted, I would like to try to do 2 exams in December to make up for the one missed in September (probably F5 and F6). I know, I am optimistic, but hey, if I don’t try it will take me ages to finish! And at the moment my decision is to be focused and do one exam per session to not waste time and finish in another couple of years. Hoping that I pass the exams at the first attempt! 🙂
However, I see from the comments on FB and on this forum that lots of people fail and struggle, and I think ACCA becomes quite hard from paper F5, so I can’t hide that I’m really worried about it, first because I am not English, so sometimes even the language is an obstacle, second, I am self-studying at the moment and I don’t have the luck to be attending classes. However, I like and prefer to organise my studies in my own time and my own way and so far it has been working.
To be honest anyway, all papers seemed really hard to me! Even F1! Especiallly for the amount of things to learn! It really is at university level, as I remember at university I had books as big as the ones of ACCA.
So we will see! Let’s catch up again in a few months and see where we all are!
I hope, Erin, that your June session was successful! Let us know how it went!Hi everyone!
I read all these posts and I was smiling thinking about all these people struggling like me! But I am glad that most of you finished and achieved their goals. I think I need some support and advice too!
I am 29 years old and I started AAT two years ago. I was alone at the time and bored, I had a not interesting job in customer service and wanted to change. So during level 2 I got my first job in finance and I completed level 3 in June this year, but then for a series of events, I have been convinced to go to ACCA instead. The main reasons were that at the moment I am at the lowest level of the accounting career and I would like to go up the ladder a bit, however I am not interested in becoming a director. Second thing, AAT changed rules this year and to complete level 4 it would have taken 1 year and half, so I thought “well, 1 year and half of AAT is half the journey of ACCA, so it is probably worth not to waste this time with AAT level 4”. Finally, my employer clearly made me understand that I would not go anywhere in the company with AAT level 4… It basically does not count anything (for him at least)… So in the end here I am, without any exemptions, preparing for F2 on December 22nd. On one side I am happy that I started from F1, as I believe I need this basic knowledge to progress with the future exams and on the other hand, I thank god I did AAT as it taught me lots of concepts so useful to understand ACCA… However, I never thought it would be so hard. All people I asked advice to, told me I could do it and it would be ok, none of them studied more than hour a day, it was not too hard etc. Liars!! I feel like they fooled me!! 🙂 I am starting to believe this is way too much than what I wanted to do. I got married in the meantime and I would like to have a baby soon.
So, I was wondering whether I can actually stop with the Advanced Diploma after F9. Has anyone of you found himself/herself in the same situation? Has actually stopped there? I think it would already improve my career, what do you think?
