Honestly, if any of you is right, what effect does it have? Muru are you still paying your CPA membership fees? No matter who wins there's no actual 'result' or 'output', just some ego boost, so just forget about this matter, and go back to work

What are you trying to prove? What is YOUR point? And let's say if YOU are RIGHT, then what?

So CPA is a piece of sh!t (hypothetically speaking, for the purposes of this argument), so? What are YOU going to do? What do you think ANYONE should do?

Then seantang says, if it sucks and you're unhappy, lobby to derecognize it. Then you come up with the above phrase? What the heck?!

Make up your mind, bean counter.

Out of so many qualifications you had to pick these 2 -___-

Be more ambitious. Take ICAEW or ICAA. Or US CPA =D

This thread is funny.

Hey, wasn't name calling and making things into alphabet soups part of our skillset in the first place?

Are you REALLY, REALLY SURE about that? I don't find my colleagues being very creative!

Nah, that doesn't require creativity. You just thave to be difficult

ACCA is equally as commercialized.

@whiteknight

I think generally, this matter is one that should be taken in CPA's internal forums and member discussions, and having a discussion on it in LYN openly almost seems defamatory to CPA, and doesn't lead anywhere near to a beneficial result. Whilst none of us have any opposition to anyone talking bad about CPA in private, I'm of the opinion that talking about this publicly is just shooting yourself in the foot. There indeed, as seantang said, better avenues to articulate your dissatisfaction with CPA, or ACCA or whichever professional body you are affiliated to.

Ultimately as a member, you remaining as a member is a form of voting in favor of it's existence, and if you really hate your CPA membership so much, just renounce it and stop paying your annual fees. Shouldn't do you any harm since you perceive it as worthless anyhow.

So ask yourself, what is it that you are trying to prove? What do you get? If it's just some ego boost to yourself claiming to be superior because you completed CPA with your eyes closed, I completed ACCA 2 1/2 years with minimal studying and managed to score highest worldwide along the way, so honestly, I can say ACCA is easy too. But I won't because I know it proves NOTHING.

This discussion, should've ended a long time ago. This is just people touting their 'greatness' and bringing down others for some e-peens glory.

Professional qualifications is just a piece of paper to get your foot through the door. Having more than 1, is inherently duplication and if we analyse the cost versus the incremental value gained from having a second professional qualification in the same discipline will indicate that it is not worth the effort . It's something we get just to get over with it.

I'd rather spend my time on an economics degree from a reputable uni, MBA or a law degree.

Erm, I think seantang was asking white knight to quote his sources, not u XD

In the end no one is qualified to be an accountant.

I've done a bit of research, it's rather bare minimal and not complete because how time consuming it is, but it should be enough to tell u that we don't need professional qualifications to be CFOs


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Link please?

You're committing a logical fallacy :
16. APPEAL TO THE CROWD: (ad populum or playing to the gallery) refers to popular opinion or majority sentiment in order to provide support for a claim. Often the "common man" or "common sense" provides the basis for the claim.

As an auditor, I will need a source document, otherwise your claim cannot be corroborated. Since you can cite numbers, I'm sure you got your data from somewhere, so all I need, is that "somewhere"

At least you're not drawing figures out of the sky, that's all I'm asking for. And until you prove that you're not drawing figures out of the sky, you're still committing a logical fallacy by claiming that it is 'common' knowledge. Just saying everyone knows it, is equivalent to me saying every 1/5 malaysian is chinese, but would you know until you did a census or some form of sampling?

And the argument on the need for 'facts' would make me not rich, is irrelevant. We're having a discussion, and therefore we should support our claims. If you don't support your claims, what you're giving is just lousy hearsay.

Anyway, thanks for the link. It's good to know that not everyone's pulling numbers from their pockets. There's a saying that 9/10 statistics are made up on the spot.

Hahaha yeah I think I should go and take CIMA

@work didn't go and look for it yet, maybe over the weekends I'll hunt for it lol.

Hahaha, did say it isn't complete. Lotta work to pull out their biographies.. and even then we don't know what they don't disclose.

Can we let this go already?