ACCA full time study

Cookie_Monster

Am looking at being maybe layed off shortly

Anyway just wondering what are the options of full time courses to complete my ACCA exams, hopefully by then I will only have P2 and the two options from P4-7 left. Would seem to be a good way to spend some of the redundancy money rather than drinking it all :pac:

To date I've done all my coures after work in Griffith, but not sure if continuing to do just one evening a week per subject for the remaining exams is enough. (Already failed P2 once)

Any advice from those who may have done it?

smcgiff

Are there even colleges that offer the options as a full time option?

You could attend an evening course and spend your time working on your own - self tutor on a full time basis.

If disciplined you'd get loads done and if you came across anything you didn't understand you could ask the evening lecturer to cover it for you in class.

On the other hand if a job did come around I'd still take it. You don't want to be an unemployed qualified accountant. Employers, certainly wont want to pay full qualified rates for a person coming from an unemployed position.

hope this makes sense.

Sorry to hear about redundancy - Good luck!

MrMatisse

i think independent college on dawson street does it full time. Its a college set up by independent newspapers, they own the irish independent etc, seems a bit micky mouse but they seem to have recruited some top tutors.

Hector Holmes

you're right - don't pss away all the redundancy cash - you have time on your hands and can study for these exams on your own. use the cash to sign up for a coupl,ke of revision courses and see if you can get included on mock exams as well.
You need to invest in yourself at this stage but conserve the cash as much as possible. Your time is still very valuable and be disciplined and you will get through the exams and be ready when the next job appears.
not sure what the story is about the guys at independent as i heard that the four main guys had gone off and set up on their own preparing students for the chartered exams.

The CCAinsider

BPP and DBS offer full time courses, but they tends to be designed around a programme for non nationals on student visas.

Hanley

Really-Stressed wrote: »

i think independent college on dawson street does it full time. Its a college set up by independent newspapers, they own the irish independent etc, seems a bit micky mouse but they seem to have recruited some top tutors.

The quality of the independent college lecturers is top notch in my experience.

yeah_ok

Hanley wrote: »

The quality of the independent college lecturers is top notch in my experience.

Sorry if i'm hijacking the thread here but Independent Colleges seem to have an Open Evening next week for their degree programmes.

I'm planning on heading along to check it out as I may be going there for some ACCA classes. That shouldn't be a probelm should it?

cheers

Hanley

yeah_ok wrote: »

Sorry if i'm hijacking the thread here but Independent Colleges seem to have an Open Evening next week for their degree programmes.

I'm planning on heading along to check it out as I may be going there for some ACCA classes. That shouldn't be a probelm should it?

cheers

No idea how it operates... I've just dealt with them for grinds (afaik the chartered grind school is run by lecturers from there) and I'm pretty sure Sandra Gleeson works for them as well.

Just call em and ask I guess......