03-06-2010, 10:47 PM
Ausmanpk2001, making conclusive statements on the basis of your feelings are never going to convince a neutral rational listener. Nothing else can be seen in last post of yours, and I wonder on what grounds it was admired.
May be my interaction with ACCAs and CA inters was a bit more than yours and I have found otherwise to be true. Exceptions of course are there but as a general trend the people I worked with CA Inters were remarkably better than ACCAs in professional performance terms. Many of my friends do have almost similar opinions in this regard. The reason for this can be explained; all of them have gone under rigorous ICAP examination for a period of at least two years that is so designed that until a students gets hold of a subject he or she does not go through. This is one of the main reasons of inculcating professional abilities in CA students. On the other hand there are other professional degrees like graduation and ACCA, whose level of comprehensiveness may be far or less similar but a thorough understanding of the subject may not be required to get through, higher passing percentage shows it to be true.
The point I'm trying to make is in ICAP its primarily examining system that ensure the professional abilities of its students and due to which CA Inters do have an upper hand over ACCAs.
ACCA is a two yeared programme and CA requires at least six years. Passing CA is tougher than going through ACCA three times, a wide gap of knowledge and professional abilities is there between a CA (ICAP) and an ACCA. So most of the people will find the comparison of both the absurd most thing one can think of.
Now when you've decided to try CA you'll yourself come to know where the difference lies. According to the points made by you, you should not face any difficulty at all while passing CA finals as you have got through an equally comprehensive syllabus. Hopefully, you do have a positive experience that is what I can pray, however, most of ACCA students struggle to get through CA finals, CA Inters of course show better results. I have always suggested that students should go for ACCA as an entry route in CA as you did. Firstly its much easier to qualify CA Inter and secondly perhaps takes less time. Your I believe was a right decision. At the same time some of the students who opt of ACCA as an entry route with the passage of time start to think differently, this may be on account of what there hear from others for whom they are bread to butter or they start to feel fear of toughness of CA, this makes them to believe that ACCA is a complete qualification and by believing so I guess they make one of the biggest mistakes. Nowhere in this world may it be UAE or any other place where ACCAs are considered at par with CAs in terms of professional abilities and therefore are remunerated accordingly. There may be a whole lot of examples of ACCAs earning in the range of AED 5 to 7k, but you won't find a chartered account (CPA, ICAEW or ICAP) earning less than the double of this.
Usman you are on the right track but the points made by you can be misguiding and misleading to the coming students, so more care needs to be exercised in making such comments.
@dard if you are confident enough of your qualification then why do you start to feel the need of getting into this futile debate times and again.
Regards
May be my interaction with ACCAs and CA inters was a bit more than yours and I have found otherwise to be true. Exceptions of course are there but as a general trend the people I worked with CA Inters were remarkably better than ACCAs in professional performance terms. Many of my friends do have almost similar opinions in this regard. The reason for this can be explained; all of them have gone under rigorous ICAP examination for a period of at least two years that is so designed that until a students gets hold of a subject he or she does not go through. This is one of the main reasons of inculcating professional abilities in CA students. On the other hand there are other professional degrees like graduation and ACCA, whose level of comprehensiveness may be far or less similar but a thorough understanding of the subject may not be required to get through, higher passing percentage shows it to be true.
The point I'm trying to make is in ICAP its primarily examining system that ensure the professional abilities of its students and due to which CA Inters do have an upper hand over ACCAs.
ACCA is a two yeared programme and CA requires at least six years. Passing CA is tougher than going through ACCA three times, a wide gap of knowledge and professional abilities is there between a CA (ICAP) and an ACCA. So most of the people will find the comparison of both the absurd most thing one can think of.
Now when you've decided to try CA you'll yourself come to know where the difference lies. According to the points made by you, you should not face any difficulty at all while passing CA finals as you have got through an equally comprehensive syllabus. Hopefully, you do have a positive experience that is what I can pray, however, most of ACCA students struggle to get through CA finals, CA Inters of course show better results. I have always suggested that students should go for ACCA as an entry route in CA as you did. Firstly its much easier to qualify CA Inter and secondly perhaps takes less time. Your I believe was a right decision. At the same time some of the students who opt of ACCA as an entry route with the passage of time start to think differently, this may be on account of what there hear from others for whom they are bread to butter or they start to feel fear of toughness of CA, this makes them to believe that ACCA is a complete qualification and by believing so I guess they make one of the biggest mistakes. Nowhere in this world may it be UAE or any other place where ACCAs are considered at par with CAs in terms of professional abilities and therefore are remunerated accordingly. There may be a whole lot of examples of ACCAs earning in the range of AED 5 to 7k, but you won't find a chartered account (CPA, ICAEW or ICAP) earning less than the double of this.
Usman you are on the right track but the points made by you can be misguiding and misleading to the coming students, so more care needs to be exercised in making such comments.
@dard if you are confident enough of your qualification then why do you start to feel the need of getting into this futile debate times and again.
Regards
