Chartered Accountant & Career Coach | Big 4
It is about time I got round to writing this blog on passing ACA TC, which now completes the set of Professional Level exams. Perhaps I avoided this one on purpose as if you have read my difficulty blog it will be no surprise to you that I found this exam to be the hardest …
This blog is for those of you who are studying for the ACA qualification independently or for those whose employer offers the choice and flexibility over your exams. For me, my exam sittings and exams were predetermined by my employer. However, now that I have sat all 15 ACA exams I am able to provide …
The Audit and Assurance (AA) exam in my opinion is one of the ‘lighter’ exams that is not as content heavy as the other exams. I am therefore not entirely sure if this advice will be as helpful as the other Professional Level blogs. This is largely down to the fact ACA AA is somewhat …
The ACA Advanced Level exams are usually the final hurdle between you and that ICAEW ACA Chartered Accountant status. You can literally almost reach it. With a pass mark of 50% for each exam still comes a lot of stress. Although you have already been through many exams, in most cases with no exemptions 12 …
If only becoming ACA qualified was as ‘simple’ as passing all the requirements and automatically receiving the formal certificate. In order to become officially ACA qualified, you must submit your ICAEW training file yourself. Although I had met all requirements of the Level 7 Apprenticeship early in September, it was only a few weeks after …
In all honestly, I have not found balancing studying and working full-time very difficult to manage. To give you some background, I work in audit at a Big 4 firm. I sat the first twelve ACA exams within one year of starting my graduate scheme. This involved sitting three Professional Level exams at a time …
Four blogs into the ACA Case Study and you might just start to think that I am slightly obsessed with this exam. The ACA Case Study is so different to any other of the 15 ACA exams that I feel there is so much to discuss for this exam. I was not planning to go …
Next week will be exactly three years since I started my ACA journey with a Big Four employer. Within the first three months of starting my training contract, I completed all six ACA Certificate Level exams. Exams felt very new to me again as after graduating, I did a year of teaching before starting my …
This exam is an ICAEW ACA exam that I would describe to be a lighter exam. BST is much less content heavy than the other Professional Level exams but this does not necessarily mean it is easy. The exam is very applied and answering the questions well takes some level of skill. I found with …
This is a blog post I cannot believe I am writing but I am so excited to share this news with you… I have written and published my first book!! It is a pinch me moment for sure but honestly, so much time and energy has gone into this book. If you are starting the …
Perhaps this blog title is quite unbelievable as I did not score 100% in FAR but I did get a pretty decent 79. That being said, I was very confident I did well following this exam. I believe I have learnt a great revision strategy to do very well in this exam and secure a …
This blog is one that I actually wrote straight after the CR exam in August 2020. The funny thing is, it was initially meant to be called “How to Fail Corporate Reporting (CR)” but the “almost” got added in following my result. Shocked was an understatement and I will talk you exactly through all of …
The ACA Case Study was an exam I had not heard much about in detail before my time came to prepare for the exam. I was always one to book annual leave to ensure I had enough time to revise for the exams, especially as I would sit three at a time. When asking my …
From the above title, you may be intrigued to know what I am talking about exactly. In 2021 there has been the roll out of new ICAEW exam software which is continuing to evolve. As an ICAEW exam qualified student, myself and others were offered the exciting opportunity in May 2021 to trial this new …
Considering I have put together similar blogs for Corporate Reporting (CR) and the ACA Case Study exam, it is only right that I complete the ACA Advanced Level with a blog on SBM. I know some of you have been asking for this one so here it is! Strategic Business Management is honestly not a …
