ACCA Exam Dates and Syllabus 2018

Author: Hitesh Sharma

Why to study ACCA?

ACCA makes you eligible to follow your own path to a rewarding and fulfilling career in any sector that you want to work in, in any financial role and position that you would like to work in. It opens doors for you in the corporate world that would have been difficult to prise open.

ACCA is a broad-based certification that opens the doors for diverse rewarding careers in accounting, banking, management, and consulting. You can easily reach influential senior roles in organizations by leveraging your skills with ACCA course.

ACCA doesn’t have a single definite pattern for all of its exams. Broadly the entire ACCA Exam Structure and Pattern are divided into different levels and modules and the ACCA Course pattern varies with them and within them. Let’s try to understand it from the beginning.

ACCA Exam Dates:

The ACCA exam dates for 2018 are as follows:

Exam entry period Early closing date Standard closing date Late closing date

June 2018 exam session 12 February 2018 30 April 2018 7 May 2018

September 2018 exam session 14 May 2018 30 July 2018 6 August 2018

December 2018 exam session 13 August 2018 29 October 2018 5 November 2018

ACCA syllabus offer comprehensive and cutting-edge guidance for all 14 papers in ACCA comprising of ‘Knowledge, Skills, and Professional’ levels.

Subjects Covered:

Thus, there are three levels to the exams. The topics covered in each level are:

Applied Knowledge: Accounting in business(F1), Management Accounting(F2) and Financial Accounting(F3).

Applied Skills: F4 Corporate And Business Law (LW), F5 Performance Management PM, F6 Taxation (TX), F7 Financial Reporting (FR), F8 Auditing and Assurance (AA) and F9 Financial Management (FM)

Professional: There are three levels to this; Professional Essentials which contain Governance, Risk & Ethics (P1), Corporate Reporting (P2) & Business Analysis (P3); Professional Options which contain Advanced Financial Management (P4), Advanced Performance Management (P5), Advanced Taxation (P6) & Advanced Auditing & Assurance (P7) and Strategic Professional which contain Strategic Business Leader & Strategic Business Reporting.

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