I have just renewed my practising certificate. Better late than never.
Having done most of it last night I realised I couldn't complete it without the Prof Ind number. As expected when I tried again this morning I see that none of my form filing changes have been saved!!! ACCA please spend more on the web facility and less on setting up affiliations in Gondwanaland.
Oh, and then when I had completed the renewal it sent me back to the ACCA homepage with a reference to ACCA being "the complete finance professional"!!!!!!
Get this, with BIKE WITH NO BACK WHEEL and the chain just hanging there. Is that not symptomatic of something being broken??
So a question,..........any more funny stories about ACCA?
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Chuckle
I also had a chuckle this year after telling them I no longer wished to be a member (after 33 years in Practice I thought I'd done my bit).
I got a nice email back which started: "I am sorry that you wish to resign from the register of members. Before carrying out your request, I would like to invite you to let us know if there are any issues regarding your studentship that you would like to discuss with us?"
Just about sums them up I think and whilst I took the opportunity to write pages on why I regarded them and the other Accounting Bodies as out of touch anachronisms, I could have written another book on how bad every "New" version of their website has been for the past 10 years.
Dare say I'll still get emails and membership stuff for another year or two.
Four weeks to reply to an email
My old office ACCA window sticker was past it so I emailed ACCA with what I thought would be a simple request for a replacement. Four weeks to get a reply and that was just a "we're passing your email to the relevant dept". Another four weeks later, a reply to say that they don't do them anymore! So best part of two months to get a reply for something so simple, and even then, despite them extorting £600 out of me each year, they're too sodding tight to provide me with a 50p window sticker!
Tip for the ACCA. Stop wasting money on producing and posting pointless and useless glossy magazines and get back to providing your members with a basic service!
ACCA
Be serious and be an FCA.
Don't know why I bothered with that really.
It's a pity that we can't all be milkmen or yeoman farmers or something like that. How about being a celebrity chef? No! - the market is also very overcrowded.
Postmen (persons) seem also to be doomed.
Any ideas? Please reply.
David Sheffer MBA FCA
W Hampstead
ACCA
'I also had a chuckle this year after telling them I no longer wished to be a member'. Paul, you are at last seeing sense and agreeing with me. though for a different reason. I, like Ken, got fed up with "we're passing your email to the relevant dept".