MARRIED ACCA COUPLES – How do you balance ACCA and marriage?

Throw a 4 year old into the mix too, been doing the ACCA the last 4 years and I am married too, work full time. You just get on with it, what else can you do? All the hard work will be worth it as it will benefit your family in the long run too.

Good question.

Having an understanding wife helps!

I signed up with LSBF in Nov 2010 with my first classes set for F1 starting Jan 2011. My wife told me she was pregnant Dec 2010!

Generally I have been taking 2 subjects at a time.

With the live sessions at LSBF you have a choice of Evenings and Weekends. For the P levels I found it much better to do weekends. Over a 2 1/2 month period you would have 4/5 full days rather than 8/10 regular nights and for me seemed more manageable.

In addition you have the online videos that I tended to watch after I had put my daughter to bed.

Being a more mature student I think I do have the advantage of a lot of relevant work experience to help me. So I have not struggled with the P levels like some. In fact I found P7 one of the easiest exams and got my highest mark because a large part is just how a firm of accountants functions. As I have always worked in Law firms there are a lot of similarities.

I’m married with 4 kids, one of which doesn’t live with me and one of which was a baby when I started. I got married while studying too

I only have evenings and every other weekend to study really. It’s not been easy at all, but I realised my constraints and worked round them. I am a firm believer that if you really want to do something you will do it

I now have one paper left (could be none come sunday) it’s taken over 5 years, lots of fails but also first time passes and perseverence

my solution was easier, I made my wife to study acca as well. guess what we spend our free time on?? also my 6 year old son like to read P5 text even though he do not know what it says but he like it because mummy and daddy always have one.

Married with 2 kids and worked FT, probably the hardest thing I’ve done….but believe me after I qualified it seems that it was all a breeze and it is worth the trouble.

Keep your heads up – besides our partners know that we love them more than ACCA but it is something that we must do.

Also I think it a lot easier for a man than a women if you have children.

Hi I think personally u get used to it u are doing it for the future of both your family.i got two kids one 3yrs and one fifteen month old with a full time job and my husband at uni and having a full time job.its true I cant ttend classes as I have not got child care n neither I can afford it.but it will benefit you in the long run.
Best of luck

The bottom line is we are doing Acca to achieve something for our self and our families. so no matter what husband or wife we always be there for each other during the hard days of Acca and when the Good Day comes we enjoy together.

This should not be seen as ACCA vs My Family/spouse Because you had to work to look after your family and ACCA gives you the Ideal Job to do that.

some people still think that marriage is just about love but I think that’s childish because marriage is way a head of love. love is just the beginning. people who have being marriage for more than a decade like myself knows what am talking about.

if your are a family man/woman your needs all comes last, everything you do is about your family. thank god me and my wife thinks alike. She joins me doing Acca as she think my aim to later run our own family accountancy firm from our own home or nearby so that we can look after our kids properly is a good idea.
some body mention about not having a sense of humor, that person must be living in his own world. also talking of egoistic I think you just suffering from P1. avoid using word that you have no clue about.

Kids are the biggest hurdle. Having a supportive spouse/partner is essential, plus discipline. Especially if self studying from home. Classroom lessons and married with no kids sounds like bliss.