ACCA Financial Accounting (FA) Course in Doha, Qatar

The Financial Accounting syllabus has these main areas:

• The context and purpose of financial reporting

• Accounting principles, concepts and the qualitative characteristics of useful information

• Double-entry bookkeeping and accounting systems

• Recording transactions and events

• Reconciliations and the trial balance

• Preparing financial statements, including basic consolidated statements

• Interpreting financial statements

Source: ACCA’s Financial Accounting syllabus and study guide, September 2026 to June 2027. Check the current guide on accaglobal.com before your exam.

• A two-hour computer-based exam.

• Section A: 35 two-mark objective test questions.

• Section B: two 15-mark multi-task questions, one on consolidations and one on preparing accounts for a sole trader or limited company.

ACCA reports no additions, deletions or amendments to the syllabus for September 2026 to June 2027.

FA is one of the three Applied Knowledge exams, the first level of the ACCA Qualification. All three are compulsory unless you hold an exemption. Exemptions from earlier study can reduce the number of exams you sit.

Financial Reporting (FR) develops FA topics in greater depth, and Strategic Business Reporting (SBR) follows at Strategic Professional level.

ACCA has announced a redesigned qualification from September 2027. See our ACCA course page for an overview, and check your own transition dates with ACCA.

• Students starting the ACCA Qualification

• Bookkeepers and accounts assistants

• Staff moving into an accounting role

Classes run in the classroom at our centre in Doha. Contact an advisor for the next FA batch, timings and fees, or to check which exams you need after exemptions.

You register as an ACCA student and book your exams with ACCA. Leaders provides the tuition. For the whole qualification, see ACCA in Qatar.