ACCA/CIMA info
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Night Runner said:
If my employer doesn't want to pay the fees it looks like I get 10% off with Kaplan anyway, due to who I work for. Woo Hoo!
One thing I would say about Kaplan is that whilst they are excellent at getting people to pass their professional qualifications, that is all they will do. They will literally tell you what to write and the correct wording to ensure maximum marks, which is no bad thing, but I think for some people this style of learning is not very conducive to actually "learning".I can only comment on ACA lessons. Good luck OP, well worth the effort.
Cheers for the info everyone, especially Family Dub - excellent!
I have now been asked to write a proposal as to why work should pay for the qualification. They have a scheme, however it doesn’t usually apply to my area of the business.
This came about as my current boss appears to be very forward thinking (get their claws into me now before I progress to a stage where it would be usual for someone in my position to move out of the department), I have nothing against this as it would provide certain assurances/security to me.
So, that's tonights work!
I think I will basically set out my experience in the past, essentially accounts based, lower level where I have put certain recording methods etc in place of my own back. Through to current work, planning annual and reviewed budgets, forecasting etc. I aim to show how having me go through the course can be of benefit to work, tying the financial and commercial aspects together etc.
Interestingly all the internal financial vacancies (well, 95% of them, the remaining 5% being audit posts) ask for either ACCA or CIMA.
Should anyone have any further suggestions they would be warmly welcomed!
Cheers,
I have now been asked to write a proposal as to why work should pay for the qualification. They have a scheme, however it doesn’t usually apply to my area of the business.
This came about as my current boss appears to be very forward thinking (get their claws into me now before I progress to a stage where it would be usual for someone in my position to move out of the department), I have nothing against this as it would provide certain assurances/security to me.
So, that's tonights work!
I think I will basically set out my experience in the past, essentially accounts based, lower level where I have put certain recording methods etc in place of my own back. Through to current work, planning annual and reviewed budgets, forecasting etc. I aim to show how having me go through the course can be of benefit to work, tying the financial and commercial aspects together etc.
Interestingly all the internal financial vacancies (well, 95% of them, the remaining 5% being audit posts) ask for either ACCA or CIMA.
Should anyone have any further suggestions they would be warmly welcomed!
Cheers,
begin!
I know - especially as my employer has agreed to meet the course/exam costs for the first 5 parts. We then review how to proceed after that.
I got slightly sidelined for 5-6 weeks due to a budget review I was given.
I'm also taking advantage of the (free!) CIMA organised events - guest speakers/training etc (I presume ACCA etc do similar things).
I got slightly sidelined for 5-6 weeks due to a budget review I was given.
I'm also taking advantage of the (free!) CIMA organised events - guest speakers/training etc (I presume ACCA etc do similar things).
Well done.
It is a hard slog it does use up your weekends and evenings for three of four or five years depending on how things go BUT your gaining a professional qualification which is broardly an MSc sort of additional qualification but highly business focused and let's not kid our selves here your doing it to improve your earnings ability which it most certainly will.
As far as salaries go location does play a notable part to it and s o as your experiance and expertise builds alongside sprlecific projects you have delivered trust me the salary ranger posted earlier can be utterly smashed/doubled and more I kid you not.
In general by the time you say 30 you should easily be earning double the UK average wage - all going well. Also I would recommend that you don't stay in the same company the breath of experiance and your performance within those differing industry sectors are key get that right and you will start to walk into jobs. Don't overdo it of course but stay too long at the younger years puts off some employers plus it really does add to your experiance your ability to draw info instantly from differing sectors to highlight your challenge and also systems will all be different so you get used to many differing systems and way of working the office politics some s
t some great.
It is a hard slog it does use up your weekends and evenings for three of four or five years depending on how things go BUT your gaining a professional qualification which is broardly an MSc sort of additional qualification but highly business focused and let's not kid our selves here your doing it to improve your earnings ability which it most certainly will.
As far as salaries go location does play a notable part to it and s o as your experiance and expertise builds alongside sprlecific projects you have delivered trust me the salary ranger posted earlier can be utterly smashed/doubled and more I kid you not.
In general by the time you say 30 you should easily be earning double the UK average wage - all going well. Also I would recommend that you don't stay in the same company the breath of experiance and your performance within those differing industry sectors are key get that right and you will start to walk into jobs. Don't overdo it of course but stay too long at the younger years puts off some employers plus it really does add to your experiance your ability to draw info instantly from differing sectors to highlight your challenge and also systems will all be different so you get used to many differing systems and way of working the office politics some s
t some great. 
It's going well so far!
Three out of the five Certificate level exams passes. I'm planning to bash the other two out of the way before xmas.
I was slightly delayed as I've been taking more on at work, technically kind-of have combined two roles now - so things are busy!
For one of the exams (economics) I was offered an exam seat two days before the exam, so I thought hell, worth a bash.
I read through the summary cards for a day, didn't open the textbook or 300 page work folder
Somehow passed, with a good mark too! Mind you, the content was pretty logical - how monetary policy is lined to inflation/unemployment/exchange rates/imports/exports etc for example.The free events are good too, I've attended quite a few re: insolvency/company turnarounds/computing/cashflow etc
Onward!
ETA: note the name change.
Edited by Roger Dodger on Saturday 17th September 12:37
If you pass your certificate levels easily, you should be able to sit 3 exams at a time when yuo get to professional level.
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