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ACCA Qualified but No Degree

  • 22-06-2014 3:02pm
    #1
    Ice Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭


    As per the title, I am a qualified accountant (ACCA) but I don't have a degree.

    I am job hunting at the moment and have come across a few positions that have online application forms and I'm required to select the highest level of education I have achieved from a drop down list.

    The list doesn't have professional qualifications on it; just school, diploma, degree, masters etc. (it's the same application for all jobs, not specific for accounting).

    So I'm aware that ACCA is equivalent to a masters but I feel like I could be misleading them if I select masters, but I would be selling myself short if I selected anything lower.

    What would you do? Is anyone else in the same position i.e. without a degree and did you find it an obstacle in applying for jobs?


Comments

  • #2
    tuamtuam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭tuamtuam


    Have you checked to see if you are eligible for the Oxford Brookes degree awarded by ACCA?


  • #3
    ianuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭ianuss


    Independent Colleges were offering a one year part-time Masters for qualified accountants last year. I just had a look on their website now but I don't see it anywhere. Maybe they didn't get the numbers? Somewhere else might offer something similar.


  • #4
    Ice Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ice Storm


    tuamtuam wrote: »
    Have you checked to see if you are eligible for the Oxford Brookes degree awarded by ACCA?
    Yes, I am eligible and I have looked into doing it. However, the next submission is November and I'm looking for a job now! :(


  • #5
    Ice Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ice Storm


    ianuss wrote: »
    Independent Colleges were offering a one year part-time Masters for qualified accountants last year. I just had a look on their website now but I don't see it anywhere. Maybe they didn't get the numbers? Somewhere else might offer something similar.
    Thanks, I just checked my emails and I got an email on this last year. I remember being interested in it but it was supposed to start in February this year and I was out of the country then.

    I'll do a bit of research and see if there's anything else similar.


  • #6
    Immy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭Immy


    I would choose masters level if they don't have a professional option.


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  • #7
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    Immy wrote: »
    I would choose masters level if they don't have a professional option.

    ^^

    No brainer.


  • #8
    Ice Storm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ice Storm


    Thanks, that is what I was planning to do.

    I was doubting myself though as I had an interview recently where I was asked how I could be an accountant without a degree. I had to explain how a degree would give someone exemptions from exams but they actually didn't seem have a clue. :confused:


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