ACCA Course in Doha, Qatar: Tuition and Exam Preparation

Leaders Training Centre is an ACCA Gold Approved Learning Partner. We teach ACCA in the classroom at our centre in Doha, from the first Applied Knowledge exam to the Strategic Professional level.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), founded in 1904, sets the exams and awards the ACCA Qualification. Leaders Training Centre provides the tuition and exam preparation.

• A broad professional accountancy qualification covering financial reporting, audit, tax, financial management and business strategy.

• Recognised by employers in Qatar and internationally, in accounting, audit, tax, finance and consulting roles.

• Members keep their knowledge current through continuing professional development (CPD).

ACCA membership is a professional accountancy qualification. The right to practise as an auditor depends on each country’s own registration, licensing and professional requirements, including in Qatar.

Each ACCA exam has its own page with the official syllabus areas, exam format and who it suits:

Applied Knowledge:

• Business and Technology (BT)

• Management Accounting (MA)

• Financial Accounting (FA)

Applied Skills:

• Corporate and Business Law (LW)

• Performance Management (PM)

• Taxation (TX)

• Financial Reporting (FR)

• Audit and Assurance (AA)

• Financial Management (FM)

Strategic Professional Essentials:

• Strategic Business Leader (SBL)

• Strategic Business Reporting (SBR)

Strategic Professional Options:

• Advanced Financial Management (AFM)

• Advanced Performance Management (APM)

• Advanced Taxation (ATX)

• Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA)

ACCA sets the entry requirements. Its minimum for the ACCA Qualification is two A Levels and three GCSEs, or equivalent, in five separate subjects including English and maths. Each country has its own equivalents, so check how your qualifications compare with ACCA.

If you do not meet these requirements, you can start with Foundations in Accountancy (FIA), which has no minimum entry requirements. Completing the FIA Qualification in Accounting and Business lets you move on to the ACCA Qualification with exemption from the Applied Knowledge exams.

Graduates and holders of other professional qualifications may be exempt from some exams. Only ACCA decides exemptions, based on your institution, course and year of study, and it can exempt you from up to nine Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills exams, never Strategic Professional ones. Check yours with the ACCA Exemptions Calculator and read our guide to ACCA exemptions.

Not sure where to start? An advisor can help you read your exemptions and plan which papers to take first.

92% of our students have passed their ACCA exams at the first attempt.

Our retake policy for ACCA tuition, if you do not pass:

• If you attended at least 92% of the classes and passed the 3 mock exams in class, you can attend the next session’s classes free of charge.

• If these conditions are not met, a 50% fee applies for retaking the course.

This policy covers our tuition. ACCA sets, marks and awards the exams, and exam entry fees are paid to ACCA.

The current ACCA Qualification has 13 exams. Exemptions may reduce the number you need to sit.

• Applied Knowledge (3 exams): Business and Technology, Financial Accounting, and Management Accounting.

• Applied Skills (6 exams): Corporate and Business Law, Taxation, Financial Reporting, Performance Management, Financial Management, and Audit and Assurance.

• Strategic Professional, Essentials (2 exams): Strategic Business Reporting and Strategic Business Leader.

• Strategic Professional, Options (choose 2 of 4): Advanced Financial Management, Advanced Audit and Assurance, Advanced Taxation, and Advanced Performance Management.

Passing the exams is not the whole qualification. To become an ACCA member you also complete:

• The Ethics and Professional Skills Module, which ACCA recommends completing before the Strategic Professional exams.

• The Practical Experience Requirement: at least 36 months of relevant work experience and 9 performance objectives.

ACCA is introducing a redesigned qualification with three levels: Knowledge, Expertise and Strategic Professional, plus new employability modules that replace the Ethics and Professional Skills Module.

Key dates from ACCA’s transition timeline:

• Current Applied Skills exams: complete them in or before the June 2027 exam session.

• Current Applied Knowledge exams (BT, MA, FA) and the Ethics and Professional Skills Module: complete them by mid-July 2027.

• July 2027: the first on-demand Foundations and Knowledge exams of the redesigned qualification.

• September 2027: the first sitting of the redesigned Expertise and Strategic Professional exams.

ACCA has published transition rules for exams you have already passed or been exempted from. Check the ACCA transition timeline for the latest dates, and ask an advisor how the changes affect your study plan.

Choose ACCA for a broad accountancy qualification covering audit, tax and financial reporting. Choose the CMA if your focus is management accounting, budgeting and business decisions.

Already qualified and only need international standards? See the ACCA DipIFR. New to accounting? Ask about Foundations in Accountancy.