It is not the tuition provider that you should depend on but rather the lecturers. Check out the 1st page of this thread to find the recommended lecturers. But note that the quality of the lecturers is not the sole criteria in passing your papers.

Have anyone requested for a transcript from OBU after completing their Bsc. in Applied Accounting? How is the CGPA calculated?

This post has been edited by YH90: Mar 15 2011, 11:58 PM

That I know. What I am asking is the calculation of the CGPA since we can request for a copy of a transcript. Most master requires a relevant degree with >3.0/3.5 CGPA.

Each degree from different institution provides different exemptions. The maximum exemption is 9 but some degree may only provide exemptions as low as 4. Check out how many exemptions you are qualified to obtain in the ACCA website.

ck23 already has an Adv. Diploma from TARC. He is not qualified for the OBU degree as you have to not be exempted from any of the F7 to F9 papers to be eligible.

ck23, for your case, I suggest going to any university that only needs you to study for an additional semester to complete your degree, eg. UTAR.

Since you already know that ACCA is difficult, you better do something about your laziness. I assume that you will be exempted from F1-F4. The remaining F5-F9 will help you get a degree from OBU. You don't really have to be hardworking to pass ACCA but it really helps.

The CAT > ACCA route only provides technical knowledge while lacking in soft skill building.

Assuming you take the normal foundation > degree > ACCA route, it is at least 5 years, 2 years slower than ACCA.
It really all depends on what are you going to do with that time advantage.

Actually Stanford GSB and Harvard accepts those without working experience but the average student age is usually 27-28 with solid 5 years experience.

But do you think you can match these working professionals with just an ACCA qualification with mediocre extra co-curricular activities and without working experience?

This June, CAT will be replaced by FIA. It will take only half a year to complete compard to CAT's 1 year.

Maybe you can try out the tuition centres at KL eg. KSA, McO etc. But if your junior has no financial difficulties, maybe he can try fork out a little more to enjoy university life while taking ACCA, eg. Sunway, INTI.

The main difference between Diploma/Degree > ACCA and CAT/FIA > ACCA is the lack of assignments. Lots of assignments.
This is because ACCA is 100% paper based. If your junior's English and soft skills are already good, that going through the CAT > ACCA route should be better since it's at least 1 year faster. Many people in my batch of ACCA lacks presentation skills, this might hinder your prospects in your working life later on.

According to a friend of mine, the assessment are some personality, analytical objective questions, shouldn't be much of a problem.

The interview part was kind of shocking. Its a one-to-one interview, something like a getting-to-know-you session, not the kind of interview I was anticipating. =/

May I know which college are you referring to? Or perhaps you can provide more details about the program. People usually take only 6 months for P1, 2 and 3, and an additional 6 months for the remaining 2 optional papers. Your program's 1 year and 8 months seems to be very slow.

Just my 2 cents worth.

CAT is equivalent to a 1st year degree. Check out the respective university requirements since I don't think all universities recognises it.

According to my lecturer, you can either cite the case name or use the illustrations provided in the act. You have to use the exact illustration and not some random examples that you made up during exams.

The ACCA exams always starts from the 1st Monday to the following week Wednesday of June and December. The arrangement of papers are also fixed.

Can't really comment about P6 and P5. But for P4, what you learn in F9 is just the first part of P4. NPV analysis will be very confusing at times involving dual tax treatments, forex, assumptions, etc... You really need to understand the question in order to answer them. Then there's hedging, F9's hedging is nothing compared to P4. There are futures, options, swaps, you will need to identify when you will need to buy a call or put etc...