Dear all
I need some advice on the best way forward... I have decided to set up on my own and have 10 years post ACCA qualification experience in practice.
I would like to offer bookkeeping services/management accts prep/ personal tax returns and financial accounts to a draft stage (with the idea of then passing on to a firm of accountants to put through their systems/do the corporation tax as although I could do this I dont want the hassle of having to keep up to date with corporate tax issues and disclosure in the accounts).
But I need to know whether to apply for my practicing cert through ACCA or whether to qualify under the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers? I feel as though I could do the ICB qualification pretty quickly and it would offer me the support and training I will need but would then cease to be ACCA qualified.
Its such a big step deciding to switch from one to the other and I dont want to shoot myself in the foot doing the ICB qualification when I could have stuck with the ACCA and maybe commanded higher fees from clients?
I seem to have hit a brick wall and am looking for help and advice from anyone who may have made the switch or whether its better to obtain my practising cert through ACCA??
Any advice most appreciated,
Chicka
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