Appropriate work experience

If you are an ICAI member with two years of appropriate post-qualification work experience you do not need to sit two of the ICAEW exams. If you can demonstrate appropriate work experience, you are entitled to credits for prior learning (exam exemption) for 14 of the 15 ICAEW exam modules.

This means that you would be able to claim credit for the two final technical papers. These are: Technical Integration - Business Change and Technical Integration - Business Reporting. This would leave the ACA Case Study (in addition to the online ethics training package) for you to pass in order to join ICAEW.

What does my work experience need to demonstrate?

To claim credit for the two final technical papers of the ACA qualification, your two years' post-qualification work experience must have met the same learning outcomes required by these two exam papers.

Your current (and if appropriate, past) employer must certify that your work experience has met all the learning outcomes of the ICAEW's Technical Integration - Business Change and Technical Integration - Business Reporting papers.

To assess this, please review the learning outcomes (PDF 62KB/9 pages).

How do I evidence this?

If you are employed

For ICAI members who are employed, you will need to ask your employer to review the learning outcomes document above.

Your employer will need to provide a letter confirming that your work has met the learning outcomes of the Technical Integration papers.

This letter must:

• Be on company letterhead;
• State the length of, and dates of your employment
• Clearly state that your work experience over the length of employment meets all of the learning outcomes specified for the two ICAEW Technical Integration papers: Business Change and Business Reporting.

If your employer does not clearly state that you have met all of the learning outcomes, your application for credit for the two Technical Integration papers could be refused.

Sole practitioners

ICAI members who are sole practitioners may self-certify that their post-qualification experience meets the aims and learning outcomes of these papers.