Students who have passed Paper 3.4, Business Information Management on the current syllabus will receive credit for an Option paper in Business Information Management. Students who have passed Paper 3.7, Strategic Financial Management on the current syllabus and have not yet passed two option papers, may choose to receive credit for either Paper P1, Professional Accountant or Paper P4, Advanced Financial Management. Students who have passed Paper 3.7, Strategic Financial Management and two option papers on the current scheme will receive credit for Paper P1, Professional Accountant.
Students registered on the current scheme at December 2007 will receive credit for all papers they have passed or been granted exemption from on the existing syllabus against the relevant papers within the new syllabus.
Students will not undertake any additional hours of assessment under the new qualification than they would completing the existing scheme.
The number of papers that can be sat will continue to be capped at a maximum of four per exam session.
Students will be given sufficient notice of the papers they will need to complete under the new qualification. Students will be sent example conversion notices in August 2006 and also in February 2007. The last written exams under the current scheme will be held in June 2007. All current scheme students will be converted to the new qualification in August 2007 and notified of the papers they will need to complete under the new qualification.
Current students will have their ten-year registration period extended as part of the conversion to the new qualification.
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