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Recording experience
The trainee development matrix (TDM) is an online tool specifically for ACCA trainees (students and affiliates) to plan and record your achievement of the practical experience requirements (PER).
It will help you through every stage - from planning your development, targeting performance objectives, and writing the answers to your challenge questions - through to having these questions reviewed and signed off by your workplace mentor. It will also help you maintain a virtual CV, charting your employment and career progress. You will also need to use it to complete your annual PER return.
You can access your personal TDM through myACCA, it can be found within the Practical Experience Requirements section and will launch in a new window.
Approved Employers
If your employer is a gold or platinum ACCA Approved Employer - trainee development stream, you may be exempt from using the TDM to record and report achievement of your performance objectives.
This is because ACCA recognises that your employer already has a robust training and development programme in place. However, it is important to confirm that your employer has this level of approval and whether they want to claim exemption from the TDM for their employees. Please note that it is your employer - not you - who decides whether to claim exemption from using the TDM for recording the achievement of performance objectives. And even if your employer decides to use the TDM exemption, you will still need to use the TDM to submit your annual PER return.
Need more information?
See the 'Approved Employer TDM exemption FAQs' in 'related documents'.
Are you a trainee leaving an Approved Employer?
See the 'Approved Employer PER summary form' in 'related documents'.