Of course you will lose out.
Let me ask, if they ask you "what is your biggest achievement during your 4 years university life?", How you going to answer this?

You tell them how  much you studied and how well your results are? I doubt they will be impressed because there are many first/ second upper degree holders. They are looking for people who is more of an overall achiever.

Trust me. If you are still studying, please be active in different activities. (If certified by your university, then will be better!)     

Hello, let me share some of my experience with you. I wasn't really very active during my university life. In fact, I did not even join all these clubs. But I did participated in some competitions and events like amazing race, tax competition, volunteering jobs. All these add points to your CV.

Remember, doesnt really have to be something related to your studies, things like marathon, volunteering jobs can also be cocuriculum activities too.   

Ohh uhh hmm i dont get shortlisted for the interview lah. Haha so sad but nvm need to move on. Just asking, big four always hire oversea graduate is it? Im local. I feel discriminated hahaha

Anyone want to hire me to do audit or tax, im willing to learn from A to Z 😁

Is twin degree consider as oversea degree? 

But going to oversea is mainly because they are rich, doesn't mean they have better personality or qualification.

What is this aca training? And icaew I thought you got the money then you can enrol already. No need special companies for it?

ICAEW is hard than ACCA? Wow.
I am not an accounting professionals, but from what I heard all these while is that ACCA is the hardest among all.

ICAEW is more prestigious than ACCA. As some reputable companies at UK only take in ICAEW grads, they dont place any importance for ACCA for some.

If you are able to finish ACCA, you just need to take the last 3 papers for ICAEW.

But actually in terms of companies in Malaysia, ACCA and ICAEW are considered professional papers and for big 4 companies, they are seen as a tool for you to enable the jump from AM to Manager.

So if youre still having a long way to go. Better to just focus at ACCA first, no point thinking so far ahead. Ive seen many people failing even for ACCA papers, still going classes at Sunway eventho they are like around 40. Feelsbadman but that is just how the cookie crumbles.

The selected companies thing is because for ICAEW you need to have working experience, and only working experience at some chosen companies are recognised by ICAEW. But if you get your ACCA I dont see you having any difficulty going in to these "chosen companies".

So it all depends on your ACCA qualifications. Good luck.

Your point makes sense and very valid.
ICAEW is a professional certification for Accounting Professionals too?

Not so sure which countries are you referring to but they are countries who dont really care about professional papers. Example, Singapore, where they place more importance on their local grads and their own accounting institute. UK maybe sure ICAEW has advantage. Australia most prolly where CPA scholars have the advantage. 

If you want to really upgrade yourself, I would suggest you to take CFA, as that would really increase your marketability.

ACCA and ICAEW are somewhat considered clashing.

Why not just take ICAEW from the start, and just forego ACCA. I have frens who aare talking ICAEW and CFA concurrently.

And in ICAEW there are some papers where you cannot fail a number of times, if not you will get some kind of disqualification, want continue also cannot.I know people where they are sent straight to ICAEW and they until now do not have a professional paper nor degree, at around 25 yo dy.

You need to work with those icaew selected companies because most prolly those companies have staff/superiors there that are full fledged ICAEW grads and they are needed to sign off for your working experience at the firm, in order for you to get your full ICAEW membership.

Er... I heard that an ACCA holder with 5 years experience can directly register as ICAEW member under their MOU. (this was in the past, I not too sure it is still available or not)

In my opinion, CFA is only good for finance field, if you intend to stay at audit line forever then it is not suitable, unless you have too much money 😅

1. Education is only one tiny factor that affect your starting salary. Even if you score well in ACCA like getting 90mark for all paper, you will still get the same salary as normal ACCA graduate student. They need someone who can do work + score well , not score well + cannot do work.

4. not much info on advisory line as I'm not one of them. So far I observed is they need to do a TONS of research study.

5. If you mean get an invitation for interview, then probably yes. Your previous co-curricular activities also play important parts as well.

6. I and my friends interned in all the big4 before. Some of my friends stay and continue as big4 member while I accept offer to oversea company .

Not sure whether got sponsor or not. It is easy to say that you want to continue ICAEW after ACCA but once you start work as big4 member, you MIGHT give up of this matter because it is not easy to study while working full-time. Some senior associate actually take years just to pass their last 2 ACCA professional paper. Don't too focus on education, later they will ask you some technical question during your interview since you are so care about your education. If you can't answer it, then they will know that you are merely an ACCA titleholder but can't apply what you had learn. 

Just tell the interviewer the truth. Most of the pure ACCA graduate also don't have much co-curricular activities compare to local university as well as internship opportunity ( they have FYP instead ). Just pass all your ACCA test and I believe the your application will be highlighted. However, you need to prepare well for interview as well~~ 

Final year project.

I'm from local University so I went for internship instead of FYP. I think is depend on the private college/university whether their course consists of FYP or not. One of my friends taking ACCA course from Sunway College mentioned that he didn't went through internship but FYP instead.    

Audit Centralization Team = audit admin assistant mainly handling admin task only. i was told to apply for this postion when i tried to apply for audit associate    (they said i never meet their requirement for audit associate, maybe it was because i graduate with second lower + 4 acca p papers only)