Reputation
Global reputation
ACCA has a high global reputation, which continues to grow as its qualifications attract large numbers of new students each year, highlighting the attraction of accountancy as a basis of a successful career. ACCA produces professional accountants whose skills and knowledge are required by employers, with potential to progress to obtain fulfilling careers in many roles in accounting and business.
ACCA owes much of its reputation to the active role it plays in developing the accountancy profession, working with many accountancy organisations at international, regional and local level. ACCA is represented in the world’s key accounting and finance organisations and committees, and influential in public policy. ACCA is an organisation that takes a proactive stance in helping to shape the profession of the future.
ACCA is seen as an example of excellence in education, training and regulation by many accountancy bodies and regulatory authorities. ACCA aims to partner with national bodies and other agencies around the world, sharing expertise and best practice and developing the profession in the wider public interest.
ACCA is a significant contributor to the work of the International Federation of Accountants: it is a board member of IFAC in its own right and is represented on many of its boards and committees on education standards, regulation, small business issues and developing nations.
Core values – opportunity, diversity, innovation, accountability and integrity – lie at the heart of ACCA. They have been present in ACCA’s approach since its foundation in 1904.
ACCA is the best-known international accountancy body among accountants and their employers in markets surveyed in an independent international survey.