STR 1 & STR 2

Hi All,

It was my understanding that we keep the original signed off Student Training Record (STR) with ourselves until we finish all the 14 papers and apply for membership, then we have to provide the original STRs to ACCA. I still mailed copy to ACCA back then.

When STR was still there, i was told that if students can get their STRs done prior to March 2008, they will not have to complete the PER objectives. However i was recently told by ACCA that i need to complete the PER objectives before the new changes take effect by end of this month which is a week from now. I told them i have completed STRs and they told me they never received a copy. Now the confusion is i am still a student and one person at ACCA tells me to email them the STRs and the other tells me i have to complete PER.

Which one do i follow? Also my employers that i entered during the STR time are no longer showing and they said i have to redo those to. It shows the number of months’ experience but the employer is showing unknown when i entered each one.

At one of my job, my work was overseen by the president of the company, as my direct manager, he is not a certified accountant as it was audited by independent auditor, can he sign off my objectives?

Please kindly advice as there is not much time before the end of the month and i don’t even know if i can reach my old supervisors who originally signed my STRs.

Under the new PERs will i loose the accounting experience i gained back in 1997?

Thanks in advance!