07-01-2010, 08:10 PM
bhai CA ke baaray mein to kuch kehne ki zaroorat nahin.. everybody knows that they earn a lot.
as far as ACCA is concerned and its scope in Pakistan, do one thing.. go to linkedin and search for acca in Pakistan. U will see that most are working in good positions (without any other qualification).
now coming to your question of which one is tougher, let me tell you that as both are professional accountancy qualifications, so the course content is to some extent similar for eg. corporate reporting and financial accounting is same (following IAS, IFRS). Auditing is also like that (following ISA), law, tax.
the major difference is that way they are tested and exam format. so you cannot say that one is tougher than the other. however, if you mean by tougher that which is one passes easily, then let me tell you that you can check the pass rate of ACCA on their website (normally between 35%-50%) for different papers, which means that passing is not a piece of cake. ICAP does not publish its pass rate but there is a PERCEPTION amongst many that it fails many times just for the sake of it. whether this perception is true or not is debatable.
Rgds,
as far as ACCA is concerned and its scope in Pakistan, do one thing.. go to linkedin and search for acca in Pakistan. U will see that most are working in good positions (without any other qualification).
now coming to your question of which one is tougher, let me tell you that as both are professional accountancy qualifications, so the course content is to some extent similar for eg. corporate reporting and financial accounting is same (following IAS, IFRS). Auditing is also like that (following ISA), law, tax.
the major difference is that way they are tested and exam format. so you cannot say that one is tougher than the other. however, if you mean by tougher that which is one passes easily, then let me tell you that you can check the pass rate of ACCA on their website (normally between 35%-50%) for different papers, which means that passing is not a piece of cake. ICAP does not publish its pass rate but there is a PERCEPTION amongst many that it fails many times just for the sake of it. whether this perception is true or not is debatable.
Rgds,
