not to deny, ACCA, ICAEW, NZICA, ICAA..etc are prestigious accounting qualification. they are hard to get.

however, my personal opinion is that MIA has not done much to grant that kind of prestigious status to them. the accounting industry in malaysia has not been properly regulated, I have came across many (quite a number of my friends) non-accounting graduates (bus admin degree, econonomics degree) and non professional members employed as finance managers or even senior finance managers by established public listed companies. I have also came across also that accounting diploma holders were taken in as a Finance Directors. all these are like non legal graduates working as a legal managers or senior legal managers or non medical graduates working as doctors.