In the UK, auditing guidelines are set by the institutes ( including ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS and ICAI ) of which auditing firms and individual auditors are members.

* The Chartered Institute of Taxation ( CIOT ) and ACCA ( Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ) have signed a global partnership agreement to enable ACCA ’ s members worldwide to take the CIOT ’ s Advanced Diploma in International Taxation ( ADIT ).

The Bible school is a members of the Association of Christian College Athletics ( ACCA ).

In the United Kingdom, many Professors of Accounting are members of one of four registered auditors and Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies members including ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS and ICAI recognized under the Companies Act.

As of May 2012, ACCA was one of the largest and fastest-growing global accountancy bodies with 154, 000 members and 432, 000 students in 170 countries.

Individuals who describe themselves as Chartered Certified Accountants must be members of ACCA and, if they carry out public practice engagements, must comply with additional regulations such as holding a practising certificate, carrying liability insurance and submitting to inspections.

ACCA claims to work in the public interest, assuring that its members are appropriately regulated.

* 1974: ACCA becomes one of six founding members of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies ( CCAB ).

* 1995: ACCA members vote at an extraordinary general meeting to rename itself Association of Chartered Public Accountants and to introduce the designation Chartered Public Accountant.

* 2009: ACCA members allowed to provide probate services as of 1 August under Probate Services ( Approved Bodies ) Order 2009 Number 1588.

* MBA ( for ACCA full members, offered in association with Oxford Brookes University

Fellow members of ACCA use the designatory letters FCCA in place of ACCA.

From 2005 to 2007, ACCA phased in mandatory CPD requirements for all members.

** Full members of Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies organisations including ACCA can apply for ICAEW membership subject to certain criteria.

** Only ACCA, ICAEW, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and Association of International Accountants are able to authorise members to conduct audit, insolvency and investment business work in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

Where full legal or mutual recognition is not available, ACCA members can sometimes obtain advanced standing in terms of sitting local accountancy examinations.

Press reports highlighted comments about ACCA, which had implemented recommendations to improve its examination syllabus, but needed to pay greater attention to monitoring long-time members.

* ACCA and TÜRMOB ( The Union of Chambers of Certified Public Accountants of Turkey ) at Turkey signed a partnership agreement in 2004 which enables TÜRMOB members resident in Turkey to follow the ACCA Professional Scheme qualification and achieve ACCA membership.

* Effective December 2009, Colorado State Board of Accountancy no longer accepts Chartered Accountants, including ACCA members, as meeting the educational requirements to sit for the US Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination.

* ACCA designation is not generally recognized by the states in the U. S., requiring ACCA members to complete all regular requirements to become a Certified Public Accountant ( CPA ).

* Institute of Directors ( IoD ) and ACCA are working on initiatives to promote good governance and high standards in learning and development.

AAT is a recognised professional qualification, separate from, but working together, for the furthering of the accounting profession, with colleagues, from all the main chartered accountancy AAT sponsoring bodies, and others such as the ACCA.

Institute of Directors ( IoD ) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ( ACCA ) are working on a number of initiatives to promote an agenda of good governance and high standards in learning and development.

* ACCA and Investors in People ( IIP ) agreed to enable IIP-recognised organisations in the UK and Ireland to apply directly for the award of ACCA Approved Employer ( professional developments stream.

** Qualified accountant: Chartered Accountant ( ACA-UK certification / CA-certification in Commonwealth countries ), Chartered Certified Accountant ( ACCA, UK certification ), Certified Public Accountant ( CPA, US certification ), ACMA / FCMA ( Associate / Fellow Chartered Management Accountant ) from Chartered Institute of Management Accountant ( CIMA ), UK.

Other useful reference materials include items from SMACNA, ACCA, and technical trade journals.

* Accountancy qualifications: Chartered Management Accountant ( CIMA ), Cost and Management Accountants ( CMA ), Chartered Certified Accountant ( ACCA ), Chartered Accountant ( CA ), Certified Public Accountant ( CPA ), Certified Practicing Accountant ( CPA ), Certified Management Accountant ( CMA ) Chartered Cost Accountant CCA Designation from AAFM

ACCA announced a Mutual Recognition Agreement with CGA Canada effective from 1 January 2007 ; renewed in 2011 for a further 5 years period until December 2017., Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, World Education Services and the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor indicated that the evaluation recognized ACCA as having the Canadian equivalence of a Bachelor's Degree ( four years ) in Accounting.

Subject to passing exams in Australian tax and law, ACCA members may obtain the equivalent level of membership from the Institute of Public Accountants.

AICPA is moving away from a national institute, offering qualification for CPAs in public practice into an international accounting institute covering both CPAs in public practice and management accountant in conglomerates ( something like ACCA does for decades ).

The ACCA is distinct from most of these churches in that it largely embraces the theology and much of the practice of the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Indian Orthodox Church, from which the clergy of the ACCA primarily derive their claim to apostolic succession via the lineage of Joseph Rene Vilatte.

The ACCA states that its approach to theology and practice is a process of " critical reappropriation " which is open to influences from all sectors of trinitarian Christianity but is, at the same time, firmly grounded in the Syriac Christian tradition, particularly with regard to such basic matters as Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and ethics.

Prior to 2002, Hong Kong accountants were allowed to obtain full memberships from both Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ( ACCA ) and HKICPA under a joint examination scheme between the two institutions.

*, there was no mutual recognition between ACCA and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants ( AICPA )/ National Association of State Boards of Accountancy ( NASBA ) but an MRA was under negotiation.

Even if ACCA gained statutory recognition, it would still be up to the individual states to grant reciprocity within their state.

ACCA failed to gain recognition in America whereas HKICPA signed Mutual Recognition Agreement with AICPA.

The Canadian branch of ACCA is pursuing recognition for statutory audit purposes in the province of Ontario under the province's Public Accounting Act of 2004

However, ACCA has not procured a mutual recognition agreement with any accountancy body in Australia, unlike CIMA and CIPFA which are recognized via MRAs with CPA Australia.

New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants has removed its exemptions altogether for ACCA members following the re-negotiation of mutual recognition agreement with various accounting bodies including CIPFA and CPA Australia in December 2010.

ACCA and the local statutory accounting body ( Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan ) offer partial recognition of each other.

CGA is a recognized in 170 + countries through their partnership with ACCA.

* Many universities offer accelerated routes for ACCA members to their masters programmes.

From 2007, ACCA members seeking to enhance their skills and improve the performance of their organisation will be able to undertake the Chartered Director qualification – a professional qualification for directors.