Your work experience must meet two core criteria to qualify towards your PER:
It is supervised by an IFAC-qualified accountant.
It involves a role centred on accounting or finance
You may include internships or work placements, but please note that shorter engagements might not fully satisfy the depth of performance objectives or be overseen by an IFAC-qualified professional.
Recording your PER
Within our PER recording tool, MyExperience, you'll provide:
Job title
Start date
Average hours per week
A percentage of how relevant your role is.
Always enter the correct relevance percentage so that your time calculation reflects the true proportion of accounting or finance activities in your role, even if it’s a small fraction.
Full-time roles
We recognise full-time work experience as 35 hours per week.
Part-time roles
1,540 hours of relevant part-time work equates to 12 months of full-time experience. This discounts annual leave, etc.
Part-time experience contributes to your PER on a pro-rata basis.
The PER tool automatically converts your hours and months based on the details you submit. You can then forward this record to your practical experience supervisor for approval.
Non-relevant roles
Roles without accounting or finance responsibilities are classed as non-relevant, and time spent will not count towards the 36-month requirement. However, you should still log these roles in MyExperience, to maintain a complete record of your career journey.
If your non-relevant role is supervised by an IFAC-qualified accountant, you may still demonstrate performance objectives in:
Stakeholder relationship management
Strategy, innovation and sustainable value creation
Leadership and management
When recording your role within the PER recording tool, remember to amend the percentage relevance of your role to 0% to ensure the accuracy of your records.
Self-employment
Self-employment work is unsupervised and does not qualify towards your PER. However, if you undertake work on a subcontracting basis, it may be supervised. Please submit details of your role to us by creating a case below, and we will review and confirm with you.
Please ensure that any activities and roles that you are undertaking on a self-employed basis comply to the rules and regulations set out within ACCA's Membership Regulations.
Contact us
If you have any further questions or need extra support, please use the Contact us option below to get in touch with our team.