Train ACA students

As an independent firm, we’ve chosen to combat the increasingly competitive market for quality candidates by increasing our recruitment of ACA trainees.

The ACA doesn’t just provide technical skills, it also enhances the capacity to think. The flexibility of the structure means we can ramp up aspects of training as and when it’s needed. We get strong support from the ICAEW on relevant issues, with tools and graduate recruitment.

In today’s world of accounting qualifications, the ACA stands as one of the oldest and most prestigious around. If you have it, you most certainly have an edge over others.

Offering the ACA helps us attract the best talent. The business benefits from access to skilled personnel, while individuals benefit from gaining an externally valued qualification. There’s goal congruency. We get something out of it; they get something out of it. I am surprised more organisations don’t do it.

There is a perception that it is expensive to train ACAs but this is not necessarily so when you review the total cost against that of qualifications from other professional bodies. In any event, price is of less significance than the rigour of the training programme for the best students.

We want to attract new graduates into the organisation – people may otherwise have thought about joining a professional services firm to obtain the ACA, but are attracted to gaining industry experience. We believe this could us the edge in the graduate recruitment market.

American Express train ACAs as we recognise that it is the premier accountancy qualification… we will be able to develop emerging leaders who will have had a variety of work experience from an early stage.

I certainly believe that the ACA qualification equips young people well for taking on key management responsibilities.

Our passion for excellence is reflected in the investment we make in our people-development and performance programmes. Offering ACA training enhances the talent pool available to us.

The ACA qualification remains a quality mark for today's accountants and business leaders.

Qualifying as an ACA offers up career opportunities with no boundaries.

It’s good to be associated with a qualification that graduates will be interested in, and with the ICAEW, nothing stands still in terms of training and development. It is pretty forward-looking and responsive in that area.

The ACA qualification is a premium business qualification, greatly sought after by graduates, which gives our trainees the technical and business knowledge and experience they need and more importantly helps them develop into all rounded professionals who can service our clients with integrity.

I genuinely cannot think of another qualification that is so well respected internationally, opens up such a wide variety of career opportunities and offers the very real potential to influence the economic prosperity of the societies in which we live. I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who is interested in a business-related career.

We train ACAs because the breadth and intellectual depth of the exam syllabus develops them as business advisers in a structured way that effectively complements their practical training.