White Knight,
I may be too offensive with my words in trading qualifications. I will budge away from discussion with you since you claim to have both the certifications and experience in Aust. My view may be biased as it was influenced by the recent transfer of an employee (with CPA (Aust)) to my comp’s Aust’s regional office and his accreditation to apply PR was easily approved by the assessing bodies.

You are forming a worldview on something based on what a trainee said and arguments that when Googled, are confined to a couple of threads in LYN and Facebook where the "issue" is raised and answered by the same one or two people?

I have a whole Fortune 50 MNC that will only pay a technician's salary to a fully qualified ACCA holder if he does not have a degree as well. Would you then accept a motherhood statement that ACCA is like a diploma at most?