Performance Objectives/Training Development Matrix – Advice Needed

@marky123,

hey ..i’m sorry that no one noticed your question so far.
well let me try to help you.

TDM is actually just …nothing special. But at the beginning it’s very confusing.
Easiest thing is annual return.
What you need is simply enter details of your employer , as long as you are employed.
And as u work all year round , you just enter those 12 months by the end of each year. (you don’t need to worry about the time u spent in vacations , leaves etc…it’s all normal for any employee)

If u have a break for 1-2 month, due to any reason, you change job or etc.
then you enter amount of months that u actually work. But looks like it’s not your case.
for you it’s just 12 months each year. ..so u enter those following TDM pages , click confirm..and that’s it.
Later when u will apply for membership, you will need to get a letter from your employer confirming that you really worked for that company during those 3 years.
if u change employers during those 3 years, then you will need a letter from each employer.

And as for PER.
Well that’s a bit …boring thing and quite time consuming, but you have all those years to complete it.
PER are performance objectives that you have to achieve.

Ideally how it should work.
You need to have a mentor ..that is usually your line manager. Say if u work in the accounting office, then i guess cheif accountant is ideal mentor for you. This mentor should give u tasks and by achieving those tasks u reach performance objectives and gain experience.
But surely …i guess it hardly works this way.
Usually people look at those performance objectives , then think of what they were actually doing at work place…and compose what to write.
Or they really go and discuss with mentor about ..which task you could do to reach this or that objective.
Once u answer all challenge questions which are provided in TDM, u send it to mentor, which sign it off.
He will just need to click : sign off.
And that’s all . your objective is considered achived.

ACCA has the right to monitor your progression in TDM, but i guess you don’t need to worry about it much.
I haven’t met any person who compained on problems with PER. , i.e. ACCA told that it shouldn’t be signed off, it’ not completed ..etc.

Look.,
ACCA provides a REALLY detailed guidance for TDM,
how to submit annual return ,how to deal witht PER.
videos and a broshure for PER, plus guidances and model ansswers for each performance objective.
IT takes time and effort to familiarize with all those., but u will just nee to do it once.
So i suggest u to check all of them:

https://www2.accaglobal.com/students/acca/per/

P.S. turn on the sound, as there is a fancy guy on the right of the page , that is guiding you when you browse those pages 😉

hope it helps,
good luck

you are welcome.
wish you patience for PER.
me personally i struggle to push myself completing those.

tongue in cheek lol …what is that expression supposed to mean ? 😀

okay , thanks ..
nice expression 🙂

indeed, you rather print it all and refer to it again and again and things might not be clear immediately .

good luck!