Apply for credit/exemption with a professional qualification

You may apply for credit for one or more of our Professional Stage examinations if you have an accounting or business related degree or a professional accountancy qualification. Please note that you cannot apply for credit if you have previously attempted the paper.

Other professional qualifications

For professional qualifications, credits are normally dependent upon membership and/or completion of specified papers. Papers/qualifications must be no older than five years to be considered.

ICAEW may from time to time vary its CPL costs for students registering with prior professional qualifications. To benefit from this, you must be registered with the ICAEW as a student in a training agreement or as an independent student before making your CPL application.

Currently there is no charge for CPL for the following groups:

• ACCA students or affiliates
• CIMA, CIPFA, ICAS or CAI (Ireland) students
• Members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan
• Members of the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants

If this applies to you, please check our online CPL directory to see what credits may be available. To apply for CPL, please download the credit for prior learning (cost-reduction) - professional qualification application form (PDF 125KB/2 pages).

If this does not apply to you, please check our credit for prior learning directory to see if credits are available and then apply for credit online.

If your professional qualification is not listed please contact cpl@icaew.com.

Students with the AAT qualification

• Check the credit for prior learning directory to see what credits may be available depending on the unit choices you made
• Apply online or download the credit for prior learning - AAT application form (PDF 125KB/2 pages)

Completing your application

Once you have completed the application process you will need to send evidence of your professional qualifications and exam results.

Good quality copies or scanned versions may be used but the institute reserves the right to ask for additional verification/alternate documents. Original documents are sent at the owner’s risk.

Please note we do not accept screenshots of web notification pages or similar electronic notifications.

Allow up to 14 days for your application to be processed.