ICAEW Continuing Professional Development (CPD) now requires ICAEW ACAs to gain a minimum number of hours.

Financa’s training counts towards verifiable ICAEW CPD

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CPD programmes cater for all levels and can focus on technical or softer skills.

How it works

In practice
Categories 1 2 3
Minimum CPD hours 40 30 20
Of which, verifiable hours 30 20 10
Where you sit
Corporate finance
Financial due diligence
Audit(1)
Tax(1)
Out of practice
Categories 1 2 3
Minimum CPD hours 40 30 20
Of which, verifiable hours 15 10 5
Where you sit
Corporate finance
Financial due diligence
Management teams(1)
Private equity investors

The ICAEW CPD update captures any ICAEW ACA member who provides “accountancy or finance work”, a broad definition. This applies to both new ACAs and experienced Partners and Managing Directors

The new rules distinguish between those in-practice and those out of practice. In-practice just means you work for an accountancy firm. The difference is that more of the CPD hours need to be verifiable if you are in-practice

If you are an ACA working in audit or tax, your category depends on the exact nature of the work you do¹

If you are an ACA out of practice sitting on the board of a company, your category depends on the exact nature of what the company does²

The source of this information is the ICAEW, and this page presents Financa’s interpretation of the ICAEW guidance. Please use ICAEW’s own assessment tool to satisfy yourself of your own CPD category. It is your responsibility to get it right for you