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Well, now I am, sitting in NLC long bench, typing these words but my mind is boggling where to start. My ACCA journey ended in April 2017. It was a tough one like all those who made it would have to say. But to me, it was a particularly challenging one, nonetheless rewarding.
Some words about myself
Me not an accounting graduate but with many many years of finance working experience. Worked in 2 of the Big4 firms and now in corporate sector.
Married and had two kiddos, one is young and the other is a toddler. Life is demanding to just make a living and support the family, not to mention to squeeze leisure time (if i had any) studying for a chartered certified accountant.
My journey...
I took my first F7 exam in Dec 2013. I prepared for about three months and got a good mark. I thought that if I failed I would have started ever. After this, there was some lagging and I rekindled my study drive around mid 2014. I sat F8, F4 and F6 in Dec 2014 and got all passed with good results. It gave me some confidence to sit through the exams.
Sacrifice there must have been. I spent virtually all of my weekends in NLC or in local library, reading study texts, making notes, reviewing notes, practising past papers, again and again and then start all over again. That worked for me. I would not do well watching vedios of pre-canned tutors. This was not the way to go for me. I prefer my way of studying as I need to pamper a discontent spouse, my kiddo (and then the other one) and, on top of all these, my job. It was not an easy job. There were always month-end closing, board meetings, internal audits, compliance reports, among so others.
Burnt a lot of late night oil I must have been after putting kiddo to sleep (and I was asleep as well). Nonetheless, struggled to get out of bed with eyes adjusted to the lamp light, starting to work on those papers. I once swore that I would have done with exams my entire life after all these. But this was an illusion after all, I knew it all well. Life-long learning, is it not?
I buried F9 and F5 by Sep 2015. How many times I would have imagined sitting in the library bench reading a leisure book after all these papers were done? I cursed and move on relentlessly.
Then conquered P2 (Dec 2015), P3 (Mar 2016), P1 (Jun 2016), P7 (Sep 2016) and lastly P6 (Mar 2017). I skipped Dec 2016 sitting because I felt I might not be able to make it through. Life was hard by that time. Job is not secure as there was a change of manager and i felt the urge to change my job after quite a time of employment in one single company after moving out of the Big4 public accounting world. Also, there were domestic "chores" to be ironed out, such as house refurbishment and my newborne child...
Despite of all these, I spurred myself with a determined heart to drive through my study journey. When I saw exam result SMS on way to work, I was calm, a little smile on my face that could hardly be discerned, "it's done" I hissed. I asked my manager to have signed off my PER before I finished my papers. So I was a Member after P6.
Here and now
Saving millions of words here for the sake of room, I had a job offer and would expect to work my ass off it.
What's next
I would consider RenDa Mpacc but would find appalled by the entry exams and interviews. Anyone would shed some light on it? BTW, I'm Chinese local. Thanks for reading.
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