I visit www.accaglobal.com four or five times a month on average. When I was an ACCA student, I registered for exams and paid the exam entry fees via myACCA and used the website to access learning materials and download past exam papers. Now I use myACCA for making my annual return and updating contact and employment information. As an ACCA student blogger, I usually go to the blog pages to see the comments for my blogs and to make comments.
I feel that the website is well designed and organised, it looks fashionable and very beautiful. The navigation is excellent, and I can easily find the information and materials I’m looking for. And, the functions within myACCA such as personal details updating, payment administration, professional ethics module are all very helpful and user friendly. Even though I have passed the exams, the website can still support me further by keeping me up to date with industry and important accounting technical issues. I often recommend the website to other students.
But I found one thing that can be improved, which is the continuing professional development function. All members are required to undertake relevant CPD to ensure that they maintain and develop the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in today's dynamic and demanding business environment. CPD is very important for the accountancy profession. If the CPD part of the website is enhanced, it will be very helpful to members and affiliates who are required to undertake CPD. And I think more and more affiliates and members want to achieve ACCA’s CPD requirement online. If a function is built to inform visitors which relevant CPD can be undertaken online, it will be even better. So, I hope to see an enhanced online CPD function on the ACCA website in future.
As China is so far away from the UK, traditional mail is not convenient, not safe, and slow. Therefore, I need to rely on a sophisticated website with advanced electronic business functions to pay annual fees and update contact information safely and quickly. The ACCA website is very important for the trainees and members who live in a country which is far from the UK.
Your comments about the CPD part of the ACCA website are interesting. There are several independent providers of online CPD which members can use to fulfil their CPD requirements, such as:
http://www.financial-fluency.co.u/acca_online_cpd.htm
Hopefully these providers should help to fulfil the needs of international ACCA members.
Posted by: Stuart | 14 November 2009 at 18:19
I intend to take papers P1, P3 and P4 this December but on entry, the system says I must take P2 before P4. Is that truly the case? Please help!
Posted by: vivian | 15 September 2009 at 08:11
Wow, I am glad to see the new ACCA website. It is a very stunning and charming piece of work as compared to before.
Now I am very very very much satisfied by the website as things are just one click away. I am very much happy to see the maturity and PROFESSIONALISM in the ACCA website.
I really like the way new happenings and news is brought on the main screen; that's what I really wanted to be updated every time I open this ACCA website.
I thank to all of those who made this possible and made our lives easier for us.
In certain times, we are here to criticize whats good and bad, bad we should also come back here to appreciate and adore the hard work and energy full of effort, the team has put to the standards, required of them.
WAY TO GO ACCA. CONGRATS for a BRILLIANT and EXHILARATING work.
Posted by: Syed Moeed Ali | 08 June 2009 at 23:10
Khadija is asking about job opportunities, but I am even more worried about the recent recession and higher output of new ACCA graduates.
Posted by: Atiq | 30 April 2009 at 22:40
Hi, I'm glad to meet all of the members here.
Posted by: Account Deleted | 26 April 2009 at 12:13
Well, the ACCA website is the perfect example of a site of a reputed professional body, made by highly unskilled people and totally ignoring the provision of benefit to its users.
I always have to search for past papers, as there is no clear link route to them. Even if there is, one can't simply understand it.
There is just as much mess, as there is quantity of info on this website.
Posted by: Syed Moeed Ali | 31 March 2009 at 17:13
Well, I find the new ACCA website extremely inconvenient. You just get lost when looking for something, like past papers, CBE exams etc, and student accountant. All new users face a lot of problems.
Posted by: khadija | 22 March 2009 at 11:16
I want the ACCA family to talk about vacancies and opportunities in the various work places. This will make all who are looking for jobs able to find one. Just an opinion!
Posted by: ALAGBE, Julius | 10 February 2009 at 07:38
Hi all,
I have just started and was pleased to see the accatv advice for those lacking practical experience.
Hoping to succeed in June 2009 - keep in touch to share the knowledge!
Virginie
Posted by: awola a nkoum virginie | 09 February 2009 at 14:42
I find current version of the site EXTREMELY unconvenient. To find past exam papers you need to click over 10 times and jump from one page to another and hardly find what you are looking for. The previous design was outdated but robust, but the current one is not a design at all.
Posted by: Dima | 08 January 2009 at 13:48
Hi all, I have just joined.
Anyone with ACCA P1 study material for sale?
Posted by: Manny | 08 January 2009 at 13:47
Hey, I am so exciting to read your blogs, and I think your articles are really helpful to me. I am studying F4 with some sort of headache, but as you have said, keep going on and keep the target clearly in head.
I hope I can do it and make it happen as you have.
Posted by: Ann | 08 January 2009 at 13:46
I think the mail service is slow... It takes like an eternity to view the page. I have a 256k connection. If I was using a 56k connection it would have been worse. Even with a 56k modem, I would have accessed Hotmail and Yahoo! mail instantly.
Posted by: KOL® | 01 December 2008 at 07:23