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Letters after your name

  • 17-11-2008 5:37pm
    #1
    Stabshauptmann
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭


    Its something perhaps nobody here has thought about, but then again someone might have the answer.

    If you hold an arts degree or a commerce degree, you put down on your CV or whatever BA or BComm or whatever the letters that go with your degree are.

    Is there a name for those types of letters?

    How is it decided whether a course will entitle someone to letters? If you look at some of the professional qualification courses, some such as the Qualified Financial Advisor (QFA) or Chartered Accountant (CA, CPA, ACA, ACCA) give the holder letters after their names, while others dont. Why is that?


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  • #2
    nellybelly
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭nellybelly


    They are called post-nominal letters... not very exciting really!

    I think the power to bestow honours (signified by post-nominals) was originally linked to a royal charter, but obviously that is no longer the case. Nowadays, I think anyone could "grant" post-nominal letters.. I guess it's up to you whether you recognise them or not. I think the honours conferred by universities and stuff have some legislative basis somewhere.


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