Professional Exams Order change (P1-P7).

You can read about it on this page:
https://opentuition.com/articles/acca-articles/changes-accas-time-limits-completing-exams/

That is true and it is a great new from Acca for a change.
Students can now choose papers that are more relevant to what they are doing at work at the time of sitting a particular Paper.
Although a bit too late for me but if I was to do it again I would have done F9,P3 & P5 together and Then P1, P2 & P7. great combination..

IF you Are accountant in management i will advise you to do P3 & P5 & P1 With or After F9 then P4 & P2. If work in Tax do P6 with or after F9 and same goes with P7 But do not do P7 before P2&P1 either together or P1 & P2 first.

I think ACCA needs to go a bit further in the following issues:

(1) If students can do P6 with or immediately after F9 then acca should make arrangements with local tax Professional bodies (e.g. CTA in the UK) to allow student to register with them as soon as they pass the P6 paper and be allow to sit their tax papers which will allow the students to finished their Acca exams with CTA exams.

(2) Optional paper should be more optional. what I mean is the 2 option limit should be remove and allow student to take minimum 2 option papers and 3 or 4 paper if they wish.

say for example a student is working in an audit and tax environment and obviously choose to do P1,P2, P6 & P7 first as it is more relevant to what they do. by the time they finished the rest of the P papers they may have an opportunity or change their mind to work for a company, this change will allow them to simple do P4 & P5 if the wish.

(3) There Are More Small and medium Size(SME) companies than Big companies/MNC’s, and most of the accountant work for (or their clients are) SME’s, so many of us will be better off with one Extra option Paper on Advance Strategic Management (P8) rather that had to do a Global MBA which I think (in my opinion) is more relevant to Big/ Multinationals companies(MNC),

thats my Opinion..