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Part-time and semi-retired status
If you meet ACCA's guidelines for part-time or semi-retired status, you can indicate to ACCA that, while you may not have met the full unit requirement, you are confident that you have undertaken sufficient CPD for your role. This means that you will be setting your own level of achievable CPD.
Any member who wishes to follow this route to CPD should be employed to work for 770 hours or less over the course of a CPD year. For example, you might work up to 17.5 hours per week, or you might be active in your workplace at specific points in the year. You will still be required to meet the full non-verifiable requirement of 19 units per year.
This route carries the following exceptions, in order to safeguard the reputation of ACCA and its members.
All members
Any member taking this route cannot be:
- involved in the preparation or presentation of accounts investors may rely on; or
- a Non-Executive Director of a listed company.
Practising members
If you are a practising member, you may only take this route if you are not responsible for audit or other regulated report work. You also need to be able to show that you have technical support in carrying out your duties.
A set of FAQs provide detailed information on this route to CPD.