The Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA), regarded worldwide as a leading financial business qualification, provides relevant and non-accounting graduates a pathway to the accounting profession. It also allows mid-year career switch for those considering accountancy as a career.
The ACA qualification is unique in bringing together technical knowledge, practical application, work experience and best practice. The programme incorporates ICPAS Singapore tax and law papers at the Professional Stage, ensuring it has global recognition as well as local relevance.
SAA-GE [formerly known as the Singapore Accountancy Academy (SAA), the Training Arm of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS)] is the approved preparatory course provider for the ICAEW ACA programme in Singapore.
Entry Requirements for ACA qualification
The majority of ACA students are graduates, who come from a range of disciplines. Students do not need to have studied accountancy or finance at degree level to become an ACA.
To register as a student, a registration fee of £165 is payable to ICAEW. Students may click on www.icaew.com/students for details on exam dates, deadlines and timetable information.
Students enrolling for examinations / preparatory course with ICPAS / SAA-GE respectively are required to pay candidate fee (include GST) to ICPAS:
First Year Candidate fee
- S$321.00 (For confirmation from 1st Jan to 30th Jun)
- S$160.50 (For confirmation from 1st Jul to 31st Dec)
Subsequent Year Candidate fee
- S$321.00 (due annually on 2nd Jan )
1 The training contract is a written agreement between student and his/her employer acknowledging the student’s commitment to the ACA training process. The training contract is entirely separate to student’s employment contract. If you are in an ACA training contract, your employer will pay you a salary and normally pay your preparatory course and exam fees. However, not all employers cover the same costs and preparatory course fees vary depending on the course provider.
2 Independent students will be responsible for paying their registration, preparatory course and exam fees. As an independent student training for the ACA qualification, ICAEW ACA programme’s regulations allow ‘independent’ students to study for and sit all of the exams except for the Case Study. To be eligible to sit the Case Study (the final exam), student is required to be in an ACA training agreement. In addition, no ACA student is allowed to sit the Case Study until the final year of their ACA training agreement.
Modules
- Business and Finance
- Management Information
- Accounting
- Law3
- Assurance
- Principles of Taxation3
Students are required to take the computer-based assessment (e-assessments) at ICAEW approved centres. Each assessment is 1.5 hours long.
Results for e-assessments will normally be available within 24 hours following the completion of the e-assessment. |
- Business Strategy
- Financial Management
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Reporting
- Audit and Assurance
- Taxation3
Paper-based assessments will be held at examination venues and are available at 4 sessions per year in March, June, September and December. The examination is 2.5 to 3 hours long.
Results for paper-based assessments will be available by letter, email, text message and / or on the ICAEW student website. |
- Technical Integration – Business Reporting
- Technical Integration – Business Change
- Case Study
Paper-based assessments will be held at ICAEW examination venues and are available at 2 sessions per year in July and November. The Technical Integration papers last 3.5 hours each and the Case Study lasts 4 hours.
Results for paper-based assessments will be available by letter, email, text message and / or on the ICAEW student website |
3(i) Students could opt for either Singapore or UK variants.
(ii) Students opted for Singapore variant Law (Knowledge Module) and Taxation (Application Module) will be sitting for the following ICPAS Professional Examination (PE):
a. Company Law & Corporate Governance (LCG)
b. Advanced Taxation (ATX)
Awards
Students who have successfully passed all examinations will be invited to become Members of ICAEW.
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