Recently, I have enrolled myself in the ACCA profession program. It was one of the pathways to becoming a member of the CPA. YA I am really mad at them!!!! Let me tell you WHY! THEY SCREWED UP MY APPLICATION!!! ASSHOLE!!! kill them!!! YA you have to agree with me, before i applied they specifically told me i would be exempted for all the essential and skill modules which are the first 9 of the modules of the 14 and i only have to take the professional modules which are the last 5. However, they screw up everything by not sending information i suppose to received. I only found out about IT when they send me a mail applying for exams. Yea only 7 out the 15 modules were exempted, I was like hummm.. why!?! i never really question them because i knew that the two modules were might not exempted because i did not take them back at uni days. Ya i was very greedy in monash to get a double major that why i did not take them. NVM it was fine... its okay to take an additional 2 more modules and so be it.
But what really ANNOYED me was when I attended the orientation which was half way through the semester, where they update me information on PAYMENTS, Admin stuff, and exam procedures. I found out that I can only attempt the P1 module when i have completed all of the 9 modules first before attempting the P1 exam. Ya that really put me into my stun-mode letting me to think whether i could attempt the P1 modules that i have studied so hard for the last 10 weeks. I have even written a stack of notes and did past year papers as though i was wanting to be a prize winner which I could not apply the exam for P1 so taking the module is pointless without exam. the only way i could sit for the exam was to apply the 2 non-exempted modules plus the one that I am sitting for. Which means I either enroll myself in all the three modules and only sit for only one exam. Doesn't make sense man, means i have to pay 220pounds and only sit for one exam and fail the rest?
I tried reasoning with ACCA and told them my current situation. They deny their mistake upon registration saying that it was stated clearly that exemptions are subject to the ACCA headquarters and they said i might need to do more subject. FINE, but i told them that they did not highlight to meee!! so they should appeal for me to take the exam at no extra cost. or at least refund me my sch fees and all the additional charges i incurred. well, they say they will do something abt my case and call/email me back which let me no confidence to belief them that i will have a return reply. Yea, once money paid customer service is bad! Ya, Its a funny system how ACCA works, here is how it goes you apply for ACCA UK and you managed your own course by enrolling yourself for lessons or self-study, and ACCA only manages the payment and exam. The process is very different from local universities or tertiary where everything is manage and determine by the school. where as ACCA and schools are separate entity where the process was a screw up.
Well, that leaves me to reflect on the case the entire night. really stress, leaving me with a couple of solutions. like changing the subject, or even taking all the modules like back to studies. haha but it would not be possible cause i would be working. unless i have lots of energy!! I consulted my family members as usual my mum would give me random solutions. but my sis really was the one who made me think is ACCOUNTING REALLY WHAT I WANT TO DO?!? which the answer is obviously no la. I would NOT be working in an accounting industry anyway so why be a member of ACCA. I kinda hate numbers they make me sleepy, usually sometimes by looking or calculating numbers i will fall asleep. ya in uni a commerce course was the only entry for me. If i did better for my pre-uni i would have gone to my favorite like IT/engineering. sadness regret to the fullest.
Oh well, since ACCA make such a mistake I have to thank them for waking my idea up. Yea I think I knew why I did pursue this course, probably peer pressure la, most of my peers are accountants and some achieve the title of CPA and I only a little man that is waiting to be release from national service to start my career path. So yea that made me feel inferior and not behaving to the norm of myself so that silly decision was made by me. YA, I HAVE decided to resign from ACCA and here are the losses: sch/registration fees tally up to 1k SGD is loss ouch pain man!! Traveling time, sacrifices made for denying things for studies, Time wasted to study the module and writing notes. One thing i really appreciate was how it let me to take things to a deeper thinking decision level. So i really hope to do well in other course if path.
For now, since sch fees are paid as usual i will attend the class weekly. The lecture is great he share many lovely fact stories to us and it really led me entrepreneurship accounting skills which gave me. maybe one day i would be one and hopefully a successful one.
