Take a note of the following information about your organisation:
- In which sector does your organisation operate?
- How many employees are within your organisation?
- Total number of ACCA trainees
- Total number of ACCA members
Preparing for your application
- 1. Decide your stream(s) and level(s)
- 2. Review the stream and level guidance
- 3. Get information about your organisation
- 4. Gather documentary evidence
- 5. Name and details of employees
- 6. Primary and secondary contacts
- 7. Upgrade to Trainee Development Platinum
Make sure you know which stream(s) and level(s) of approval are right for your organisation.
More information is available in the Approved Employer programme handbook (PDF, 515 KB), or in our support section for approval types and their scope.
Read through the approval criteria for your chosen stream(s) and level(s) - can you confirm that your organisation meets the targets?
You can use the Approved Employer assessment matrix as a quick reference, or read our detailed guidance for individual targets.
We'll need any relevant documentary evidence relating to the evidenced targets for your chosen approval stream(s) and level(s) for Trainee Development or Professional Development. In the application support section, you'll find guidance on the documentary evidence.
We’ll ask you to upload these as part of the application process.
Learn about the information you'll need to provide about your organisation when applying to become an Approved Employer
We need to know the registered name of your company or organisation, and its physical address. It’s important to reflect this accurately, because we’ll use this information to confirm that your trainees and members are eligible to take advantage of the simplified processes your approval offers.
If you want to cover a number of different locations with your approval, we’ll need the address for your registered head office, or the office where your finance, human resources or learning and development department is based. We’ll ask you more about those locations in the Approval scope section of the application form.
Primary contact
The primary contact is the person we will contact if we have any questions about your application. If your application is successful, this person will be our main contact for important information about your continued approval, including our regular renewal and monitoring processes.
In large organisations we would recommend that this is a senior professional in either the finance or human resources/learning and development function.
In smaller companies it should be the person responsible for co-ordinating training and development for finance professionals.
If you are a firm of accountants in public practice and you are applying for Practising Certificate Development, Audit Qualification Development or Sustainability Assurance approval, the primary contact must be either a training partner or a training principal within your firm.
Secondary contact
We are also asked to provide details for a secondary contact. If we are unable to get in touch with your primary contact, we will contact this person in their absence.
If you do not have a secondary contact, please repeat the contact details from your primary contact, as the secondary contact fields are mandatory.
An ACCA student or affiliate cannot be listed as the primary contact for your approval, but they can be listed as your secondary contact.
You can upgrade your approval to Platinum either through the application, renewal, or monitoring process.
If you wish to upgrade via application, the process is straightforward, as you will need to submit an application through the Knowledge Base article.
You will be asked to provide additional evidence to meet the targets for Platinum approval. Please review the requirements for Trainee Development before you apply.
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