I recently accepted an offer for Senior Associate at PwC US, and since I'm an international hire, I'll have to opt for CPA. I'm already an ACCA Member and almost done with my ACA qualification. So if anyone here has studied for both CPA and ACCA/ACA, I was hoping to get some insight on how difficult and different CPA is from ACCA/ACA other than the minimum 75% passing score?

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Op I would say it’s going to be completely different and somewhat hard. Your background may help you a bit with audit exam but that is mostly US GAAP based. What I would recommend is get registered at a university near you and try to take the graduate level classes that mimic CPA exams. Most of the universities have graduate level classes that cover the same material as FAR, Audit, BEC and Reg or at least 3 out of these 4. I think you will have the hardest time with Reg since it US tax and business law. Good luck Op

I actually self studied for ACCA entirely and for some ACA courses during busy seasons so that won't be a problem. But thanks for your advice 👍

I’m sure your firm offers free study materials to take the CPA exams (becker, wiley etc) which I think should suffice. You don’t have to enroll in classes unless your credential evaluation does not meet the 150 minimum units required. I was also an international hire and had to take CPA exams again (I was already a CPA in my home country). There are 4 exams, REG, FAR, BEC, and AUD. I would say the biggest difference is reg (mainly taxes). You’d have to familiarize yourself with it. For FAR, IFRS GAAP is not that much different from US GAAP so I did not study too much on it except for the key ifrs/us gaap differences. Audit (except for pcaob rules) and BEC had pretty much the same concepts as my home country. Good luck! 👊🏻

Oh I'm sorry I confused your Phillipines CPA with US, thinking you had to take the exam twice. My bad. Thanks for guiding bro, really appreciate it!

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