QUOTE(seantang @ Sep 21 2010, 09:42 PM)
Quite good, I think. Sg degree and a professional qualification... more than satisfies the basic criteria.
QUOTE(icycokes)
i am really curious to know as i heard ACCA is not very much valued in spore.
Many Malaysians, for some inexplicable reason, seem to think that the ACCA is at the pinnacle of accounting profession.
In Singapore, it's just one of the many professional qualifications available. You'll be on equal footing with other holders of professional qualifications, generally. However if you have ACCA without having a degree... you're in a bit of trouble. A degree is commonplace in Singapore... so much so that NOT having a degree is certainly suicide in terms of competitiveness versus other candidates.
ICPAS membership is the most appreciated by local companies.
I am in disagreement with you that Degree is more appreciated or more pretigious than ACCA.
I have ask my former FC and some job recruitment agents, my feedback was when there are 2 candidates with the same exp but 1 is having a degree and the other is having an ACCA, they will opt for the ACCA.
This is because the field of study of ACCA is very much similar and can greatly applied in today working world particularly when one study for the final 3 papers of the entire syllabus.
Apart from this, an ACCA graduate is well governed by the code of ethics and professionalism of the ACCA code of conduct.
Unlike a degree holder, after obtaning is degree... one can help their bosses to falsify and manipulate accounts as they have nothing to lose due to they have obtain their Degree and cant be revoke.
ACCA shall retain its rights to remove the candidate from its ACCA database/register when an ACCA qualified accountant failed to follow rules.