[lukeleonard]

Hi,

Thanks for that advice. I have mixed feelings about:

– this person has been doing this job for a long time and is very capable at it, so what does it really matter whether qualification is held or not
– verus the fact I’ve worked very hard to get qualified, as have the other members on the team, why should this person gain the benefits of qualification having not achieved it.

I don’t believe that my employer has any idea, otherwise I think they would have stepped in when it was known who I would submit my PER to.

My PER needs to be reset by ACCA before I can resubmit it for sign off to another manager. I will not take any action until I hold ACCA membership in my hands.

Once that is done, I may quietly raise my concerns off the record with a trusted follow employee at work and see what their opinion is. As I mentioned, it may be that my employer doesn’t really care even if alerted (and this turns out to be true).

Thanks a lot,

L

[lukeleonard]

Hi,

I thought I’d reply to this since it was informative when I was trying to decide whether to do an ACCA or not.

I learn with BPP. For each exam, they do 3-4 ‘days’ of lectures (a day equals 6 hours), after which I write up the lectures, which usually takes another 4 hours, so that’s about 40 hours to complete a course. This 40 hours is spread over a month usually. Then between the course ending and the exam I complete the practice question kit BPP provide, which is something like 2500 minutes, which is another 40 hours. Then I do some mock exams, BPPs online tests, and rote learning of formula etc, so add some more on there.

I do an exam every 3 months, which equates to 2 months ‘on’ and one month ‘off’ (to relax) i.e. 1 month for the course, 1 month for revision, 1 month wait until the next course beings.

Broken across the whole 2 months it probably adds up to about 2 hours a day. Which would be 14 hours a week.

It is a lot of work, but if you are determined it can be done. I’ve completed F1-F8, and I’m due to take my F9 exam in two weeks. I find the weeks before the exam to be really intense. I’ve always done it exam by exam (one exam a quarter), I cannot understand for the life of me how people sit two exams at once, my brain would explode. But people do!

Thanks

Luke

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