ACCA Syllabus

The ACCA syllabus consists of 14 papers divided into four modules

KNOWLEDGE	SKILLS	ESSENTAILS	ELECTIVES
3 papers	6 papers	3 papers	select 2 papers from 4

The ACCA syllabus:

KNOWLEDGE
F1 - Accounting in Business (AB)
F2 - Management Accounting (MA)
F3 - Financial Accounting
SKILLS
F4 - Corporate and Business Law (CL)
F5 - Performance Management (PM)
F6 - Taxation (TX)
F7 - Financial Reporting (FR)
F8 - Audit and Assurance (AA)
F9 - Financial Management (FM)
ESSENTIALS
P1 - Professional Accountant (PA)
P2 - Corporate Reporting (CR)
P3 - Business Analysis (BA)
ELECTIVES
P4 - Advanced Financial Management (AFM)
P5 - Advanced Performance Management (APM)
P6 - Advanced Taxation (ATX)
P7 - Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA)

The following courses may be studied from an international or a national (UK) perspective: financial reporting, audit and assurance, corporate reporting and advanced audit assurance.

Exam Regulations

All modules need to be taken and preferably passed in chronological order. A maximum of four papers per sitting applies although a variety of modules may be sat. (Papers within a module may be sat in any order.) In addition to the above 14 papers, students are required to study and sit an on-line module in Professional ethics, it is recommended that it be taken at the same time as P1.

All modules have a pass rate of 50% and need to be passed within 10 years.