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ACCA recognition with CPA Australia …how I did this!
Update: This is an article I wrote back in 2016, but some of the information is still relevant and useful. Thank-you for your interest in this article. I’m not in a position to help you personally. I suggest you read this article and contact the relevant professional bodies directly or post your question in the comments section of the article.
I choose to study accountancy as it was an easily transferable skill across countries and businesses. A debit is a debit in any language. In 1991 I choose to study an international accounting qualification, rather than simply an Australian-centred one.
I’m one of only two people I know born in Australia, holding the global ACCA accounting qualification. It’s served me well — sometimes.
Some countries I lived in recognised my qualifications with open arms — hello Singapore and England! While back in the late 90’s some countries struggled with protectionism and their own hairball mess of qualifications, and would not recognise my international qualifications — hello Canada — where there were a plethora of competing accounting bodies there. Fortunately, though it’s simplified over the years in Canada as far as I can tell. [Here’s a link about ACCA recognition in the USA someone asked after I published]
