Which is better, ACCA or CPA?

You can choose according to your own needs.

1, different characteristics

ACCA is characterized by cultivating talents, aiming at cultivating compound senior financial management talents.

The characteristic of CPA examination is to select talents and train certified public accountants, which belongs to professional and technical talents.

2. Different qualifications

The full name of ACCA is chartered certified accountants Association, which refers to ACCA examination or international CPA qualification.

Certified public accountant (CPA) refers to a person who has obtained a CPA certificate and practiced in an accounting firm, and has the sole qualification to sign.

Extended data:

A certified public accountant refers to a person who has passed the CPA qualification examination, obtained the CPA certificate and practiced in an accounting firm. The subjects of professional examination for certified public accountants are accounting, auditing, financial cost management, economic law, tax law and strategy and risk management, and the comprehensive stage is: comprehensive test of professional ability.

The ACCA exam mainly trains people in financial accounting and auditing, although it also involves the content of management accounting, but it is not its focus. The advantage of ACCA lies in its comprehensive coverage of all fields of financial accounting and in-depth research. It also spent a lot of space on the research of British financial accounting standards, and the completion of ACCA certification fully meets the knowledge structure requirements of middle and senior positions in the field of financial accounting.

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