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The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global professional accounting body offering the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification (CCA). Founded in 1904, It is now the fourth-largest professional accounting body in the world, with 252,500 members and 526,000 student members.
British qualified accountants are full voting members of United Kingdom professional bodies that evaluate individual experience and test competencies for accountants. The term accountant has the same legal protection in the United Kingdom as that given to other professions.
Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. [1] [2] Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. [3]
The convergence of accounting standards refers to the goal of establishing a single set of accounting standards that will be used internationally. [1] Convergence in some form has been taking place for several decades, [2] and efforts today include projects that aim to reduce the differences between accounting standards.
Exemptions remain available to AAT qualified persons for accessing chartered qualifications despite changes in the legal relationship between the bodies and AAT over time. In May 2017, AAT members voted to amend the organisation’s Articles of Association to remove the sponsoring role of the chartered bodies, present since AAT's inception. The ...
The National Association of State Board of Accountancy (NASBA) collected and analyzed data from 1996 to 1998 to verify the effectiveness of the measure. Researchers studied more than 116,000 candidates who took the exam between 1996 and 1998. 33% of respondents had more than 150 college credit hours, while 67% had less than 150 credit hours.
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA), South Africa’s pre-eminent body for accountants. The institute provides a wide range of support services to more than 48,000 members and associates who are chartered accountants (CAs(SA)), as well as associate general accountants (AGAs(SA)) and accounting technicians (ATs(SA)).
The Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) is an umbrella group of chartered professional bodies of British qualified chartered accountants.The primary objective of the CCAB is to provide a forum for the member bodies to discuss issues of common concern, and where possible, to provide a common voice for the accountancy profession when dealing with the United Kingdom government.