ACA Professional exam results

ICAEW students who sat the September 2025 ACA Professional Level exams now have their results.

In all some 4,916 students sat in September and the overall pass rates were:

  • Audit and Assurance: 79.7%%
  • Business Planning: Banking: 53.5%
  • Business Planning: Insurance: 60.0%
  • Business Planning: Taxation: 80.8%
  • Business Strategy and Technology: 83.9%
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting (IFRS): 80.0%
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting (UK GAAP): 42.9%
  • Financial Management: 77.9%
  • Tax Compliance: 84.8%

PROFESSIONAL LEVEL, SEPTEMBER 2025

SUBJECT ORDER OF MERIT

Audit and Assurance

First place and the Watts prize

  • Oliver Coto Clarke, London (Saffery LLP)

Business Planning: Banking

First place

  • Janki Patel, Guernsey (Deloitte LLP)

Business Planning: Taxation

First place and the Little prize

  • Samuel Gibbs, Northampton (Deloitte LLP)

Business Strategy and Technology

Joint first place and the Railton prize

  • Jack North, London (BDO LLP)
  • Anonymous, London (Forvis Mazars LLP)

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Joint first place and Spicer and Pegler prize

  • Theenesh Sivaram, Malaysia
  • Callum Smith, London (Millennium Capital Management Limited)

Financial Management

Joint first place and the Howitt prize

  • Ellie Nguyen, London (Legal & General Group plc)
  • Jemma Phillips, Christchurch (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)
  • Lauren Smith, Wymondham (Lovewell Blake LLP)

Tax Compliance

First place and the Knox prize

  • Joseph Tams, Derby (Inni Accounts Ltd)