Capabilities

Navigate through our comprehensive set of professional capabilities

Careers

Learn about the different finance roles and opportunities the ACCA Qualification will bring you.

SKILL LEVEL

Select the skill level and find appropriate capabilities to suit the stage of your career.

Proficient

ACCA members with a minimum of three years’ experience gained during the journey to qualification. At this career level you are usually expected to have some post qualification experience where you build further on the Insight, Drive and Collaboration skills needed to succeed.

Expert

ACCA members/fellows with considerable post qualification experience with a breadth and depth of exposure to a variety of scenarios. At this career level, you are likely to be managing a team or function, or progressing strongly in a specialist area of expertise.

Leader

ACCA fellows with vastly significant post qualification experience. At this level, you are likely to be a senior leader perhaps in a C-suite or entrepreneurial role.

Drive

Capability

Drive relates to your attitude and motivation: being determined, motivating and developing yourself and others to achieve stretching goals, being curious and open to new approaches and acting with integrity.

Related capabilities
 

Collaboration

Digital

Drive

Ethics

Insight

Sustainability

Suggested CPD

 

CPD skills webinar - Dealing with pressure and stress | ACCA Global

 

Capabilities

Builds trusted relationships, is reliable, acts with integrity and in a manner that is appropriate for a professional accountant, promoting trust in the profession.

 

  • I work within my own the limits and the capabilities of the organisation 
  • I actively promote trust in the organisation and the profession
  • I am viewed as a trusted advisor throughout my organisation and by key stakeholders
  • I take collective responsibility for organisational decisions
  • I role model the behaviour, actions and values required in the organisation and the profession
  • I promote a culture of openness and transparency where staff are not afraid to challenge or admit to mistakes.

Developing this capability through the ACCA Qualification

Exams Ethics and professional
skills module (EPSM)		 Practical experience requirements performance objectives

Strategic Business Leader (SBL)

Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA)

Advanced Performance Management (APM)

Advanced Financial Management (AFM)

 Unit 2, 2(a)-(e), 7(a)-(b), Unit 3, 3(d), 4(a), 6(a)-(c), 7(c), Unit 4, 3(b), 3(d), 4(a)-(e), Unit 5, 4(a) 1(c), 3(b)-(e), 5(a)-(e)

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