Excellence in ACCA examinations

BREAKING away from the perception that accountants and auditors are mere numbercrunchers for a company, chartered accountants are now highly sought-after, taking on roles as strategic business advisors equipped with an arsenal of skills to ensure the sustainability of businesses. With the demand for qualified accountants in today’s competitive rat race rising, so has the popularity of accountancy programmes among school-leavers.

This new breed of accounting graduates is expected to be well rounded – maintaining proficiency in accounting while possessing new and expanded skills such as communication, leadership, critical thinking, and IT and digital skills.

Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TAR UC) is an ACCA Platinum Approved Learning Partner, which is the highest level of recognition by ACCA under its Approved Learning Partner – Student Tuition programme for having consistently achieved pass rates above ACCA’S global pass rates in its Strategic Professional Level paper examinations.

TAR UC is also the only institution in the world approved by ACCA to run an Internally Assessed ACCA Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills programme which enables students to claim all nine paper exemptions at the Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills levels upon completion of their second year of study.

Under ACCA’S new examination structure introduced in December 2018, TAR UC students have continued the excellent streak by achieving pass rates above ACCA’S global ones for the Strategic Professional Level papers, namely the Strategic Business Leader and Strategic Business Reporting papers.

To date, two TAR UC students have achieved extraordinary results in the SBL paper. Lau Jia Yi came in top in Malaysia and fourth in the world in the December 2018 ACCA examination and Caroline Ng Yi-wye did the nation and TAR UC proud by becoming the first Malaysian to be ranked top in the world for the same paper in the December 2019 ACCA examinations.

“I am very proud of our students for obtaining excellent results in the ACCA examinations over the years,” says Prof Dr Lee Sze Wei, president of TAR UC. “The academic team has been doing a fantastic job fine-tuning its teaching methods to help students not only tackle the new examination structure, but also impart knowledge that would help them hit the ground running upon graduation.”

TAR UC has consistently produced many top scorers in the ACCA examinations year after year nationally and globally. Prior to ACCA’S change in examination structure, TAR UC students had also been acknowledged globally for achieving world-class results for other professional level papers. To date, TAR UC students have won 79 world prizes and 101 national prizes in the ACCA examinations.

Application for TAR UC’S September/october 2020 and January 2021 intakes is currently ongoing. Submit your application online at www.tarc.edu.my.

To find out more about TAR UC’S programmes offered by its Faculty of Accountancy, Finance and Business, visit the Info Day from Sept 11 to 13 at all campuses nationwide. More information about the Info Day will be made available on www.tarc.edu.my and TAR UC’S Facebook page.