Course overview
This ACCA Complete qualification is designed for anyone wanting to develop their core accounting knowledge and skills. If you choose to study this complete course, you’ll start off with the ACCA Applied Knowledge modules, once you have successfully completed the exams for those modules, you will progress to the ACCA Applied Skills modules. After successfully completing the Applied Skills exams, you will progress to the ACCA Strategic Professional modules. As part of the ACCA Strategic Professional level, you will need to complete two optional modules. This ACCA Complete course includes the optional modules ACCA AFM P4 Advanced Financial Management and ACCA APM P5 Advanced Performance Management.
Recognition
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
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Duration study load
Varies depending on the enrolment date.
Entry requirements
In order to study this course, you will need three GCSEs (grades 1-6/A-C) and two A-Levels (grades A-E) in five separate subjects, including Maths and English.
Course features
- Online learning platform
- Video tutorials and webinars
- Exam kit and progress tests
- Personal study plan
- Dedicated personal tutor support
- Dedicated student support
- Free CV critique service
- Free employability guide to help you impress future employers
- Free XO Student Discounts card
Assessment
A mixture of progress tests and mock exams to prepare you for your exam.
What practical experience is needed to achieve the full qualification?
To complete the full ACCA qualification, you will need to complete a total of 36 month’s work experience in a relevant accounting or finance role. This work will need to be supervised and signed off by a practical experience supervisor.
You can start your work experience at any time and can continue gaining experience after completion of your exams.
Delivery
This course is offered on a distance learning basis, with access to required study materials and unlimited support from your personal tutor via email. Study at your own pace, wherever and whenever you choose.
Subjects
- The business organisation, its stakeholders and the external environment
- Business organisational structure, functions and governance
- Accounting and reporting systems, controls and compliance
- Leading and managing individuals and teams
- Personal effectiveness and communication
- Professional ethics in accounting and business
- The nature, source and purpose of management information
- Data analysis and statistical techniques
- Cost accounting techniques
- Budgeting
- Standard costing
- Performance measurement
- The context and purpose of financial reporting
- The qualitative characteristics of financial information
- The use of double-entry and accounting systems
- Recording transactions and events
- Preparing a trial balance
- Preparing basic financial statements
- Preparing simple consolidated financial statements
- Interpretation of financial statements
- Essential elements of legal systems
- The law of obligations
- Employment law
- The formation and constitution of business organisations
- Capital and the financing of companies
- Management, administration and the regulation of companies
- Insolvency law
- Corporate fraudulent and criminal behaviour
- Information, technologies and systems for organisational performance
- Specialist cost and management accounting techniques
- Decision-making techniques
- Budgeting and control
- Performance measurement and control
- The UK tax system and its administration
- Income tax and NIC liabilities
- Chargeable gains for individuals
- Inheritance tax
- Corporation tax liabilities
- Value-added tax (VAT)
- The conceptual and regulatory framework for financial reporting
- Accounting for transactions in financial statements
- Analysing and interpreting the financial statements of single entities and groups
- Preparation of financial statements
- Audit framework and regulation
- Planning and risk assessment
- Internal control
- Audit evidence
- Review and reporting
- The context and purpose of financial reporting
- The qualitative characteristics of financial information
- The use of double-entry and accounting systems
- Recording transactions and events
- Preparing a trial balance
- Preparing basic financial statements
- Preparing simple consolidated financial statements
- Interpretation of financial statements
- Leadership
- Governance
- Strategy
- Risk
- Technology and data analytics
- Organisational control and audit
- Finance in planning and decision-making
- Innovation, performance excellence and change management
- Professional skills
- Fundamental ethical and professional principles
- The financial reporting framework
- Reporting the financial performance of a range of entities
- Financial statements of groups of entities
- Interpret financial statements for different stakeholders
- The impact of changes and potential changes in accounting regulation
- Role of a senior financial adviser in the multinational organisation
- Advanced investment appraisal
- Acquisitions and mergers
- Corporate reconstruction and re-organisation
- Treasury and advanced risk management techniques
- Strategic planning and control
- Impact of risk and uncertainty on organisational performance
- Performance management information systems and developments in technology
- Strategic performance measurement
- Performance evaluation and corporate failure
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