Don’t forget ACCA’s seven-year rule!

ACCA is reminding students that they have a seven-year time limit for completing their Strategic Professional exams.

The time limit comes into effect when a students pass their first Strategic Professional exam. ACCA explains: “If you don’t pass all the Strategic Professional exams and reach affiliate status within seven years, you’ll lose any Strategic Professional passes achieved after seven years. These will need to be re-taken in order to complete the qualification.”

Your exam passes for Foundations in Accountancy, and the Applied Knowledge and Skills level from the ACCA Qualification will never expire.

Just to confuse matters if your first eligible exam session was December 2015 or earlier, you were also given a 10-year time limit to complete the qualification, from the date you registered as a student.

If this applies to you, you won’t lose any results before this time limit is up. After your 10-year time limit is reached, you will lose any Strategic Professionals results that are seven years old, or older, and you will need to take these exams again.