What is ACCA?
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is the world largest accountancy body with around 300,000 students and more than 100,000 members in around 160 countries. What are the entry requirements?
ACCA offers a flexible entry system to its students. The entry requirements are:

• A Levels or Graduation (Professional Scheme) with minimum 18 years of age.
• 21 years of age (Mature Students Entry Route) with no formal qualification.
• Certified Accounting Technician Route.

Professional Scheme
Professional scheme is designed for those students who have done either A Levels or Graduation with minimum 18 years of age. A student entering into ACCA through professional scheme can opt for four papers at a time. A student who has done A Levels must also fulfill the following conditions:

• He must have done O Levels with minimum C grade in Mathematics and English.
• If a student hasn’t achieved C grade in O Levels Mathematics and English must have done A Levels in Accounting and Business Studies.

Mature Student Entry Route
MSER is designed for those students who do not possess any formal qualification but must have reached 21 years of age. The difference between a professional scheme student and a MSER student is that

• A professional student can opt first four papers at a time.
• A MSER student has to pass Paper F2 and F3 to enter into professional scheme

Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) Route
On successful completion of CAT, the student is transfered to ACCA part2, known as Skill Module, thus gaining excemption from ACCA part1, known as Knowledge Module.
ACCA papers to be passed
ACCA qualification is divided into three parts. A student has to pass 14 out of 16 papers.

FUNDAMENTALS (nine papers in total)
Knowledge
F1	Accountant in Business	(AB)
F2	Management Accounting	(MA)
F3	Financial Accounting	(FA)
Skills
F4	Corporate and Business Law	(CL)
F5	Performance Management	(PM)
F6	Taxation	(TX)
F7	Financial Reporting	(FR)
F8	Audit and Assurance	(AA)
F9	Financial Management	(FM)

PROFESSIONAL (five papers in total)
Essentials
P1	Professional Accountant	(PA)
P2	Corporate Reporting	(CR)
P3	Business Analysis	(BA)
Options (two to be completed)
P4	Advanced Financial Management	(AFM)
P5	Advanced Performance Management	(APM)
P6	Advanced Taxation	(ATX)
P7	Advanced Audit and Assurance	(AAA)

What is the examination procedure?
ACCA conducts exams on two bases:

• Manual (Paper based) exams
• Computer Based Exams
  
  

Manual Exams
Manual Exams are conducted twice a year starting from 1st week of June and December. The deadlines for entering into manual exams are 15th April for June session and 15th October for December session.


Computer Based Exams
CBEs are conducted for paper F1, F2 and F3 only.CBEs can be attempted anytime during a year with no deadlines.
Please note that manual exams are conducted by ACCA itself whereas CBEs are conducted by the institute under the supervision of British Council.
CBE fees payable to ACCA for F1, F2 and F3 (Knowledge Module) : £65

What fees are payable to ACCA?
The following fees* are payable to ACCA

Exam Fee ( Per Paper )
Registration Fee (payable once at the time of initial registration)	£66
CBE fees payable to ACCA for F1, F2 and F3 (Knowledge Module)	£65
Knowledge Module (Manual)	£50
Skills Module	£60
Professional Module	£70
Annual subscription (payable annually)	£66

The above mentioned fees are increased by ACCA on per annum basis.

How much time is required to complete ACCA?
ACCA qualification is divided into two parts:

• Exams
• Practical training
  
  

To complete exams minimum of two years are required with 10 years maximum to complete the exam portion. A student has to complete three years practical training to gain the membership of ACCA. The practical training can be completed before, during or after completing the exams. Why SKANS is the best choice for ACCA?
SKANS is known to be the leading institution in the field of Professional Accountancy Education. Skans is providing Professional Accountancy Education for the last 17 years. The basic characteristic of SKANS is its Highly Qualified and Experienced Faculty which includes Chartered Accountants, Certified Chartered Accountants and Experienced Master Degree holders from variety of Pakistan’s Renowned Universities.
What services do we offer to our students?
Our mission is to provide best services to society in the field of professional education. To achieve our objective we offer the following services to our students:

• Spacious and strategically located campuses.
• Air conditioned and spacious class rooms.
• State of the art computer labs.
• Well equipped libraries.
• Highly experienced faculty.
• Exam focused syllabus coverage and thorough revision classes at the end of the session.
• Mock exams at the end of the session.
• One to one student teacher interaction. Friendly environment.
• Conduct of extra curricular activities on regular basis
• Conduct of computer based exams on monthly basis.
• Discounts available on performance.
• Placement of students to London College of Accountancy UK.
• Visa assistance to students.
• Conduct of IELTS classes.

Do we focus on quality of education?
To maintain and improve the quality of our students a separate quality control department has been established within SKANS which is headed by a senior educationist from the renowned university of Pakistan who has around 40 years experience in the field of education. Skans maintains Individual Student Performance Records through its programmed/ Scheduled ‘Computer Based’ monthly tests and Bi-weekly Student’s Performance Report. The Progress/ Test Reports are regularly sent to the respective parents for information. Skans provides extra academic help to individual student after the class for any back up or any specific problem of the student through the Teacher Assistants.
When sessions start at SKANS?
SKANS offers admissions for June attempt from December of the previous year and from May for December attempt. SKANS has the privilege to start classes for the initial level of ACCA on monthly basis. How much fee is charged by SKANS?
The following fees* are charged by SKANS:

Registration fee (payable once)	Rs.5,000
Tuition fee (per paper)
Part 1	Rs.8,500
Part 2	Rs.9,000
Part 3	Rs.9,500