ACCA syllabus

The ACCA syllabus consists of 14 papers divided into four4 parts:
Knowledge - 3 papers
Skills – 6 papers
Essentials – 3 papers
Options – 2 papers from 4

Knowledge

F1	AB	Accountant in Business
F2	MA	Management Accounting
F3	FA	Financial Accounting

Skills

F4	CL	Corporate and Business Law
F5	PM	Performance Management
F6	TX	Taxation
F7	FR	Financial Reporting (UK or International)
F8	AA	Audit & Assurance (UK or International)
F9	FM	Financial Management

Essentials

P1	PA	Governance, Risk and Ethics
P2	CR	Corporate Reporting (UK or International)
P3	BA	Business Analysis

Options
Choose any two:

P4	AFM	Advanced Financial Management
P5	APM	Advanced Performance Management
P6	ATX	Advanced Taxation
P7	AAA	Advanced Audit & Assurance (UK or International)

Exam Regulations

• All modules must be sat in order
• Maximum of four papers to be taken in one sitting
• Papers within a module may be sat in any order but ACCA recommends that they should be sat in numerical order.
• Papers from a variety of modules may be sat at any one time. i.e. Knowledge and Skills or Skills and Essentials.
• The three Essentials papers do not have to be sat together
• Students have 10 years to pass all the examinations.
• The pass mark for all examinations is 50%
• In addition to the above 14 papers, students are required to study and sit an on-line module in Professional ethics. It is recommended that this is studied at the same time as P1