Are you interested in a new world of opportunity, which will enable you to work in any area of finance or management in any business? Contact us now about our ACCA Professional Course.

• Do you want to become a professional accountant and are unsure of where to start?
• Do you want to enhance your skill set and build a better future for yourself?
• Do you have an ATI qualification and want to progress?
• Do you want a change of career but are unsure of what to do?
• Do you want follow a career path that leads to an advisory or consultancy role?
• Do you want a qualification that is transferable all over the world?
• Do you want a course that suits your own pace and lifestyle?
• Do you want to keep your career options as open as possible?

Course Overview

IBAT is a Gold Approved learning provider of ACCA. The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is the world’s largest and most respected professional accountants association, with more than 370, 000 students and members in 170 countries worldwide. The ACCA Qualification successfully combines practical experience and professional exams. The papers are based on international accounting and auditing standards.

The fundamental level on this course is divided into three modules knowledge, skills and essentials. The knowledge module (F1–F3) introduces students to the core areas of financial and management accounting. This provides the platform from which the other technical accountancy areas will be studied in greater detail in the skills module. The skills module (F4–F9) contains six subjects which comprehensively cover the main technical technical areas that any accountant – regardless of their future career aspirations – are expected to have mastered.

The Professional level - Essentials (P1-P2) have been set at an intellectual level equivalent to that expected of a student taking a Masters degree. The focus of the syllabus at this level is to build upon the technical skills already acquired, and explore more advanced professional skills, techniques, and values that are required and used by the expert accountant acting in an advisory or consultancy role at a senior level. All students must complete the three papers in the Essentials module. The Options module contains four papers. These are directly underpinned and supported by their equivalent within the Skills module in the Fundamentals level. These exams assess the more advanced and sophisticated techniques that a professional needs in order to specialise in specific areas at work, or to follow as a career pathway in an advisory or consultancy role. Students select two out of four Option papers and are advised to choose the options that relate to their chosen or anticipated field of work.

Where will this take my career?

ACCA Qualification is a passport to a new world of opportunity. It will enable you to become a Chartered Certified Accountant, use the designatory letters of ACCA, and work in any aspect of finance or management in any business.

Who accredits this course?

ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS, ACCA The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the largest and fastest growing international professional accountancy body in the world, with nearly 370,000 members and students in 160 countries. The ACCA syllabus has been recognised by the United Nations as providing the basis for a global accountancy qualification. This qualification enables you to become a Chartered Certified Accountant, to use the letters ACCA, and to work in any aspect of finance or management in any business. Please check out their website http://www.accaglobal.com/

Certification

The ACCA Qualification successfully combines practical experience and professional exams. The papers are based on international accounting and auditing standards.

Am I eligable for the course?

Students should consult http://www.accaglobal.com or speak directly to our course coordinator who will be happy to advise.

How long is the course?

There are two examination sessions per year – one in June and one in December.

View Student Feedback: View Student Feedback from students who completed the ACCA Professional Course

Alan Osborne – ACCA "The lectures were very good and had an excellent approach to the course subjects.We had access to plenty of notes and things were simplified as much as possible. The ACCA course gives me a qualification that can be brought anywhere and will widen my career oppertunities. It has helped me in my current position and studying for an accountancy qualification has made me more valuable to my own company".

View the Lecturer Profile: View the Lecturer Profile for the ACCA Professional Course

Lorraine Ryan - Profile - ACCA Lecturer F1 Lorraine has over ten years experience as a finance professional and has been lecturing for the past three years. She holds an MBs in Entrepreneurship and Marketing, a BSc (Management of Credit) and is a part qualified CIMA professional. Lorraine lectures in Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise and Innovation and Management Accounting.
Paul Lydon – Profile – ACCA Lecturer F2 Paul has lecture extensively in Financial and Management Accounting over the past five years in private and state colleges including both ACCA and ICAI students. Prior to 2002, Paul worked as a professional accountant for many years. He is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants and holds an MBS in Marketing and Entrepreneurship.
Cliodna McAleer – Profile - ACCA Lecturer F4 Cliodna holds a Barrister-at-Law Degree from the Honorable Society of Kings Inns, a Bachelor of European Business and Legal Studies from University College Dublin and a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from Dublin City University. Having previously worked in the business sector and now a practicing Barrister-at-Law Cliodna brings her extensive experience in both law and business to her teaching practice enabling her to deliver an in-depth and high quality Corporate and Business Law programme.
James O’Connor – Profile - ACCA Lecturer P1 AND P3 James has been lecturing, specialising in business related subjects on Masters, Professional and Undergraduate academic programmes for a number of years. He is also responsible for the design and delivery of business related training modules for corporate clients. He has previously lectured with the D.I.T. and V.E.C. He holds an honours M.B.A. from D.C.U. as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Training and Education. Prior to going into full-time training, James has worked for three separate and distinct multinational companies (American, Japanese and Irish) in various management roles. He is a confident lecturer and his style is very supportive to accommodating and enhancing upon a positive student academic experience
Barry Smith – Profile –ACCA Lecturer F7 AND P2 Barry Smith, chartered accountant, has been teaching accounting and finance since 2001. He spent five years teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Dublin City University Business School. In 2006, he left Dublin City University to establish his own business developing online accounting and finance educational content. Barry continues to teach ACCA and ACA accounting courses on a freelance basis and has recently authored a financial accounting textbook for McGraw-Hill publishers. Prior to working at DCU, he spent five years working with PricewaterhouseCoopers in New Zealand, Germany and Zimbabwe. Barry holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from University College Dublin and is currently completing PhD research at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Paula Daly Hayes - Profile – ACCA Lecturer F5 Paula is a qualified accountant and a graduate of DCU where she was awarded a Bachelor of Business. She has worked at a senior level in different sectors, ranging from retail to manufacturing based in Ireland, the UK and Germany. Paula has experience in the public sector having acted as a financial adviser in relation to EU funding. She is now using the practical experiences gained in industry to deliver accountancy modules on the Management Accounting module on IATI.
Keith Whitford - Profile - ACCA Lecturer F6 Keith is a qualified accountant and tax consultant with over twelve years of experience in private practice, with the last three being as a sole-practitioner (under the name KPW & Co). Keith has been lecturing part time professional accounting courses (ACCA and IATI) for 5 out of the last 7 years

What is the course fee?

Part Time: Papers F1-F3: €510 per paper
Part-Time: Papers F4-F9: €660 per paper
Part-Time: Papers P1-P3: €850 per paper

Full-Time: €800 per paper.

Revision Only

F1, F2 & F3: €215 per module
F4, F5, F6, F7, F8 & F9: €270 per module
P1, P2 & P3: €320 per module
ACCA CBE (Price per exam): €120

How can I make savings on the course fee?

IBAT College rewards students who register early for their course with significant savings available on the course fee. For further information on these savings and payment options, click on the following link:

What do I get for my fee?

• Full set of bound notes (view sample notes)
• Access to your online student portal (view student portal site)
• Flexible Timetable (view timetable)
• Content Expert Lecturer (view lecturer profiles)
• Excellent college facilities (view college photos)

I would like to apply what should I do?

Contact IBAT at 01 8075055, email enquiry@ibat.ie or Enquire Online using the button below. However, students must register with ACCA directly

Mature Students (MSER Route)

• If you are over 21 years old and do not fulfil the entry requirements of the Professional Examination Route, you will automatically be considered for the MSER (Mature Student Entry Route). This is designed for students who have the maturity and skills to deal with the ACCA Qualification instead of first undertaking the Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) qualification
• MSER candidates must pass the equivalent of Paper F2, Management Accounting and Paper F3, Financial Accounting within two years of registering.
• MSER candidates will be given of two years (a maximum of four consecutive attempts) to pass papers F2 and F3.

Graduate Students (Graduate-Rentry Route)

• Relevant degree holders from ACCA-accredited institutions may be exempted from all nine exams within the Fundamentals level and register directly at the Professional level. Non-relevant degrees may also qualify for some exemptions

CAT Students (CAT-Qualification Route)

• No academic qualifications
• Student are required to sit Certified Accounting Technician
  (CAT) qualification first and then transfer to the Skills module of the ACCA
  Qualification by claiming exemption from the first three papers in the Knowledge module.

International Students (English Languate Proficiency)

• Regardless of the route taking, non-native english speakers (international students) will need to ensure that they have a minimum
• IELTS – Minimum 6 Bands with no less than 5.5 in each component OR
• TOEFL – Minimum score of 173 (Computer based) OR
• Cambridge CPE – A, B or C.

How do I Register with ACCA

If you are taking ACCA exams for the first time your first step will be to contact the ACCA directly in order to register for examinations and apply for exemptions. ACCA may be contacted at:

ACCA Ireland
9 Leeson Park,
Dublin 6.
Tel: +353-1-4988900.

Website: http://www.ireland.accaglobal.com/
Department Contacts: http://www.accaglobal.com/contacts/offices/ireland

Contact details for ACCA connect, ACCA's global customer centre:

ACCA Connect
2 Central Quay,
89 Hydepart Street,
Glasgow,
Tel: + 44-141-582 2000
Email: students@accaglobal.com
Website: http://www.accaglobal.com

Deadlines for first-time registration, with the ACCA board are as follows:

• For June examinations - 31st December
• For December examinations - 15th August

Deadlines for exam registration:

• For June examinations - 15th April
• For December examinations- 15th October

Student also are advised to also visit the ACCA student resources locate at the following website:

http://www.accaglobal.com/students/
http://www.ireland.accaglobal.com/ireland/students/

Exemptions

Holders of previous qualifications can refer to ACCA’s exemptions enquiry database which is located on the ACCA website: http://www.accaglobal.com/join/acca/exemptions or http://www.accaglobal.com/join/exemptions/

Deadlines for exemptions with the ACCA board are as follows:

• For June examinations - 31st January
• For December examinations- 31st July

Important Dates

Please Visit ACCA exam timetable website: http://www.accaglobal.com/students/exams/timetables/acca

You can download details of the diary dates from the ACCA website at: http://www.accaglobal.com/pdfs/studentspdfs/prof_dates.pdf

Learner protection for this programme is provided in accordance with section 43 of the Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999.

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