25/06/2025
Accountancy is changing.
Accountants are driving sustainability, promoting social value, reshaping businesses, enabling innovative technologies, and sharpening their cutting-edge financial and ethical skills for a changed world.
So ACCA is redesigning the forward-looking ACCA Qualification to equip the next generation for a widening choice of successful and fulfilling careers. So these future professionals can look beyond the bottom line, be catalysts for positive change, and bring more value than ever to businesses and organizations across the world.
What's changing and when?
Responding to the evolving needs of business, ACCA is redesigning the ACCA Qualification to introduce:
-New awards and designations to recognize achievement and support career success
-An interactive, experiential learning environment with modern assessments, including new modules focused on employability
-even more focus on sustainability, social impacts, AI and technology, all woven into the qualification
and enhance:
-An already strong core syllabus with the flexibility of options at the final level
-Tailored education support, enabling flexible, successful study journeys
-rigour – ethics will always remain at its heart
Milestones and support timeline:
2025
June 2025
Accountancy redefined. Announcement of the future ACCA Qualification
Global launch event. Your qualification: always in demand.
Use ACCA launch resources to find out what it means for you:
Future Qualification explainer resources
Stakeholder guidance and support timeline
ACCA Transition Tool
August 2025
ACCA variant exams. Guidance released:
Future variant exams
Exam timelines
ACCA support roadmap
September 2025
'Ask ACCA' global student webinars
A chance to discuss the future ACCA Qualification, implementation timeline and support with ACCA teams.
November 2025
Foundations and Knowledge Exams guidance pack:
Exam syllabus
Essential Employability Module syllabus
Specimen exams (PDF)
Examining team guidance.
2026
March 2026
Expertise and Strategic Professional Exams guidance pack:
This will include ACCA new Option exam, Data Science Professional, alongside guidance for:
Exam syllabus
Essential Employability Module syllabus
Specimen exams (PDF)
Examining team guidance
2027
January 2027
Foundations and Knowledge Exams: ACCA Study Hub, Practice Platform and ACCA-X
Updated ACCA content available for Foundations and Knowledge exams:
ACCA Study Hub
ACCA Practice Platform
ACCA-X
March 2027
Expertise and Strategic Professional Exams: ACCA Study Hub and Practice Platform updates
Updated ACCA content available for Expertise and Strategic Professional exams:
ACCA Study Hub
ACCA Practice Platform
April 2027
Foundations and Knowledge: Essential Employability Modules - Global student webinars
Pre-launch support webinars, including the opportunity to ask questions to the ACCA team.
Future Foundations and Knowledge Exams: Exam entry opens
Students can enter for Foundations and Knowledge exams commencing from July 2027.
June 2027
Final sitting of Applied Skills and Strategic Professional Exams
After this exam session students transition to the future ACCA Qualification.
July 2027
Expertise and Strategic Professional: Essential Employability Modules - Global student webinars
Webinars providing an overview of Essential Employability Modules at Expertise and Strategic Professional level ahead of launch.
Foundations and Knowledge Exams available (on-demand)
First opportunity for students to sit the Foundations and Knowledge exams.
Expertise and Strategic Professional Exams: September session exam entry opens
September 2027 exam session entry opens giving students their first opportunity to enter for the Expertise and Strategic Professional exams.
To be confirmed
Foundations & Knowledge: Essential Employability Modules available
Further details to follow.
August 2027
Expertise & Strategic Professional Exams: Last chance to enter for the September 2027 exam session
September 2027 exam entry closes.
September 2027
Expertise & Strategic Professional Exams: September exam session
First sitting of the Expertise & Strategic Professional exams.
October 2027
Exam results released for the September 2027 exam session
Results for the first exam session of Expertise & Strategic Professional exams released.