03-04-2010, 07:05 AM
Dard
You are not the one who will decide what is comparable with what. To a larger extent noone of us can do so. It is the market acceptability that decides it.
Get rid of your problem if you have any. As CA Inter is not a designation, likewise ACCA affiliate is and must not be deemed as ACCA that in fact is the designation.
An affiliate without training is like a pilot who is pilot merely because he read the books on how to fly a plane or like a surgeon who is surgeon merely because he has read some Atlas and other books. This is the reason an affiliate is not allowed to use designation of ACCA.
We are discussing CA Inters (article completed). If affiliate has read / qualified some extra stuff, it might have also been gone through by CA Inters but not yet passed. So here ACCA affiliate may be bit better in knowledge. However, CA Inters have a great deal of exposure and even are expected to have done practically what they have to qualify yet. They carry a significant edge over affiliates for this reason. So, the combined merits and demerits suggest that an affiliate is in fact comparable with CA Inter. Some people may be comparing it with even lower levels like M.COM, CA Module C, or even B COm. Yet I feel comparison with CA Inter may not be inappropriate.
However, a well trained ACCA (definitely the member) is expected to be very much in the contest and should be treated better than CA Inters. Comparing with ACA is a joke; not for personal biase, rather because of market acceptability. We have already discussed it in a great deal so I don't intend to list down all factors again.
Regards,
Kamran.
You are not the one who will decide what is comparable with what. To a larger extent noone of us can do so. It is the market acceptability that decides it.
Get rid of your problem if you have any. As CA Inter is not a designation, likewise ACCA affiliate is and must not be deemed as ACCA that in fact is the designation.
An affiliate without training is like a pilot who is pilot merely because he read the books on how to fly a plane or like a surgeon who is surgeon merely because he has read some Atlas and other books. This is the reason an affiliate is not allowed to use designation of ACCA.
We are discussing CA Inters (article completed). If affiliate has read / qualified some extra stuff, it might have also been gone through by CA Inters but not yet passed. So here ACCA affiliate may be bit better in knowledge. However, CA Inters have a great deal of exposure and even are expected to have done practically what they have to qualify yet. They carry a significant edge over affiliates for this reason. So, the combined merits and demerits suggest that an affiliate is in fact comparable with CA Inter. Some people may be comparing it with even lower levels like M.COM, CA Module C, or even B COm. Yet I feel comparison with CA Inter may not be inappropriate.
However, a well trained ACCA (definitely the member) is expected to be very much in the contest and should be treated better than CA Inters. Comparing with ACA is a joke; not for personal biase, rather because of market acceptability. We have already discussed it in a great deal so I don't intend to list down all factors again.
Regards,
Kamran.
