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Is ACCA only for accountants?, Relevant or not relevant for me?
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TSkingkhong2008
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Dec 20 2010, 08:36 AM, updated 15y ago
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Hi all,
Currently I'm working as an executive in a department(Holding company) dealings with my company's business monitoring unit and also from time to time will do due diligence and risk assessment (in terms of business, financial, economics etc) on projects that the subsidiaries are undertaking. Value of investment varies from RM10 Million and more.
I have a degree in accounting and are looking at my options to top up my knowledge.
I have browse through the syllabbus in ACCA and are quite impress with the topics covered such as business analysis, performance management, financial management.
But are ACCA only for accountants?
Or should I look for courses in MBA instead?
Because I felt of taking MBA when I have more experience in hand in future. I currently had started working for 2 and a half years only.
You views and comments are appreciated.
Thank you!
King
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TSkingkhong2008
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Dec 20 2010, 10:40 AM
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QUOTE(yeehau86 @ Dec 20 2010, 09:10 AM) since you have mentioned that you are interested to ACCA, you can consider to take it. But how will the employer view it ( in regards with my future employer). Since if I have ACCA but I'm not working in audit firms or as account asssitant. Will this ACCA help me. But in knowledge wise i think ACCA would help me since the sylabbus in updated. I heard they have new sylbbus in 2011.
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TSkingkhong2008
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Dec 20 2010, 11:45 AM
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QUOTE(nicky87 @ Dec 20 2010, 11:14 AM) Not everyone who has ACCA is an accountant... like the CEO of Airasia... tony fernandez... but yeah currently I think alot of people have ACCA and the new in thing is ICAEW and CFA... ICAEW u actually need to work in an audit firm or a firm that does ICAEW sponsorship... CFA just costs a bomb ^^;; 4k a pop if you fail it's 4k gone lol... From wikipedia. He was educated at Epsom College 1977-83 and then graduated from the London School of Economics in 1987. He worked very briefly with Virgin Atlantic as an auditor, subsequently becoming the financial controller for Richard Branson's Virgin Records in London from 1987 to 1989.[1]
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