Accelerate Program
What is the Accelerate Program?
ACCA Accelerate program in Australia and New Zealand is a special arrangement between ACCA and your education provider, which gives you the opportunity to register and start your Strategic Professional level exams with ACCA prior to graduation.
Under this program, you can combine your university studies with your ACCA qualification to give yourself a head-start to an aspiring career in accounting and finance.
Eligible students will be able to access exclusive benefits as agreed with our partner universities such as:
View our current approved programs below:
This section will contain useful information that will assist you with the Accelerate journey.
In order to complete your online application, you must first make sure that you are currently enrolled in an eligible program (please check the program list above). You will need the following:
Click on the Accelerate Application Guide (under Related Documents) for a step-to-step guide on how to register.
Depending on different offerings, you will be required to sit from a minimum of ONE exam within 12 months after your graduation.
The exams are quite challenging, hence we strongly advise that a weighted average mark of Credit and above at university would be a good foundation.
To help you with deciding which exam is right for you take, we have put together a summary of prerequisite knowledge for each exam:
To learn what the P level papers involve, visit our Qualifications page.
There are FOUR exam sessions per year and three type of exam entries depending on the time you book: early entry, standard entry and late entry.
Access our Exam Planner Tool here.
View different types of exam fees here.
There are three ACCA Approved Content Providers where you can buy study materials from, such as textbooks, revision notes, exam kits and many more.
You can find the directory here.
You can also access our past papers (questions and answers) for free.
Visit our Exam Resources Centre to download these materials.
If you wish to obtain a postgraduate qualification at the same time as getting tuition for the Professional papers, we offer a few programmes in collaborations with our world-class partner universities.