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Finance/Accountancy Graduate - Online Course

  • 17-03-2016 1:36pm
    #1
    stevob77777
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭


    Hi,I graduated from college nearly 4 years ago with a Bachelor's Degree in Finance/Accountancy.Since leaving,I haven't had any experience in Accountancy ,I worked in the Insurance industry as a broker for 2 years & currently working as a Data Administrator. I'm now looking for advice with relation to getting back to the Accountancy part-time, are there online courses that I can do,I'm thinking of doing the Accountancy exams,perhaps the ACCA, however as its been 4 years,my knowledge in Accountancy wouldn't be up to scratch.Any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    tanit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭tanit


    If you are trying to keep going towards Chartered or Certified Accountant, all the bodies have options to do the courses online. The body that looks more heavily invested in online tuition appears to be CPA and I heard great things about some of the courses offered. But Chartered Accountants and ACCA also have very good offers about online courses.
    If you want to check CPA just go their website and check under information for prospective students and the same for Chartered Accountants.

    For ACCA I would recommend Griffith College. I haven't done anything online with them but I have done evening classes and they were great. They offer CPA online and they might also offered ACCA online too.

    Just check the exemptions you can get with each body and the costs involved in full. ACCA might be the most expensive body from the student point of view but you have the option of paying little by little taking less subjects at different times of the year. But definitely just compare everything and go for the one that suits you best. I think they are all more or less the same at the end of the day.


  • #3
    stevob77777
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭stevob77777


    Thanks for that advice, i'm off the next few days so will look into it further.

    I wasn't too sure where to look for online courses or what colleges provide them.I'm leaning towards the ACCA, you seem to have more flexibility in both exams & payment.

    I'll definitely do a comparison of the accountancy bodies + see where i'll go from there.

    Thanks again.


  • #4
    ZeroThreat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭ZeroThreat


    Not sure how exemptions work exactly with ACCA, but with your degree I'd imagine you only have to take the final 5 Professional level exams. (you may have to take maybe 1 of the Fs but I'm not sure).

    But assuming 5 or 6 exams, you could probably be finished in a year and a half or even less since there's quarterly exam sessions now.


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