CPD2019

ANNUAL CPD DECLARATION 2019

You can do this online, through myACCA at www.accaglobal.com. Alternatively, you can complete this declaration in BLACK INK and
send it back to us at: ACCA, Customer Services, 110 Queen Street, Glasgow G1 3BX, United Kingdom.
You do not need to complete your CPD declaration if you are a new member and admitted to membership in 2019.

PART 1 PART 3
All members must complete this part All members must complete this part
X I have complied with the CPD requirements for 2019. I confirm that:
The CPD route I followed is (please select one route only): • The information given in this form is true and accurate to the
X Unit route
best of my knowledge and belief;
X Unit route – part-time or semi-retired • I have maintained and, where appropriate, developed my

competence in relation to professional ethics;
X ACCA Approved Employer route

• I have not engaged in public practice activities (as defined by The
X IFAC member body route
Chartered Certified Accountants’ Global Practising Regulations
3 and 4), without holding an ACCA practising certificate or
OR
being placed on the register of ACCA practitioners without
X I have not been able to meet the CPD requirements for 2019. having already notified ACCA’s Authorisation, Assessment or
I understand that CPD is a requirement for my continuing Investigations Departments;
membership. I will make good my shortfall and then submit
• I have not been subject to any disciplinary or other matters
an updated CPD declaration to confirm.
which may engage bye-law 8 (liability to disciplinary action
– see guidance overleaf for information on bye-law 8) that
PART 2
have not already been brought to the attention of ACCA’s
Only select this part of the form if it applies to you: if it does
Assessment or Investigations Departments;
not, please leave blank.
• I have not been subject to any criminal conviction and/or caution
X I confirm that I am an engagement partner responsible for
that has not already been brought to the attention of ACCA’s
audits of financial statements. Assessment or Investigations Departments;
• I understand that the UK Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
does not apply to the accountancy profession and that I am
required to disclose any unspent convictions and/or cautions that
are not ‘protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders
Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013);
• I have read and understand the instructions and guidance
overleaf before signing.

Signature

Membership number Today’s date

DATA PROTECTION
We may use your personal data for the purposes of membership administration and training requirements, sending you publications
and other communications, responding to enquiries investigating complaints and complying with our regulatory obligations
You can update your information through your myACCA account at any time. We may share information with our suppliers and our
auditors. We may also share information with other IFAC member bodies and employers, in order to verify your CPD declaration.
Please note that for individuals based outside the UK, your information will be held in ACCA’s main information systems which are
located in the EU and may be accessed by ACCA’s local office in your country of residence. ACCA processes information within
the EU, but may also transfer data outside of the EU as part of its operations and service delivery.
For more information on how your personal information and rights are respected, please access our privacy notice
accaglobal.com/privacy, or contact privacy@accaglobal.com

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 ANNUAL CPD DECLARATION – INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDANCE

You are required to submit your 2019 annual CPD declaration by 1 January 2020. The simplest and quickest way to make your CPD
declaration is online through myACCA. You will then receive an acknowledgement that your CPD declaration has been received. Please
keep your evidence for three years and only send it to ACCA if we ask you to. Members holding practising certificates, insolvency
licences and/or carrying out exempt regulated activities in the UK or investment business in Ireland must be able to demonstrate they
have maintained competence in the specialised area(s) of their practice.
For further information and guidance visit www.accaglobal.com/members/cpd

COMPLETING PART 1 Engaging in public practice activities

Check the box to confirm you have met the CPD requirement and Director, partner, LLP member or principal?
also indicate which CPD route you have followed from the routes To ensure that you are not in breach of ACCA’s rules about holding
below: a practising certificate, if you are a director, partner, LLP member or
principal in an accountancy practice you must check your position
• Unit route
against ACCA’s Global Practising Regulations and the factsheet
If you have completed 40 units of CPD, including 21 verifiable
Am I in public practice? https://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/
units. Please select this route even if you were granted a full/
ACCA_Global/Members/Doc/Am_I_in_Public_Practice.pdf
partial CPD waiver.
ACCA’s definition of public practice extends beyond audit
• Unit route – part-time or semi-retired
to incorporate all types of work generally associated with an
Please check the guidelines to ensure that you are eligible to
accountancy practice, such as producing accounts, tax returns,
select this route. You need to ensure you have completed an
but excluding book-keeping services.
appropriate level of CPD for your role.
If you engage in public practice activities or hold yourself
• ACCA Approved Employer route
out, as defined by Global Practising Regulations 3 and 4,
If you are employed by an ACCA Approved Employer –
you are required to hold an ACCA practising certificate or
professional development and your role is covered by the
arrange to be placed on ACCA’s register of practitioners.
approval. Please check with your employer that they are
approved and confirm the scope of their approval. Information about bye-law 8
Bye-law 8 sets out the details of the events which could lead to
• IFAC member body route
disciplinary action. These events include (but are not limited to)
If you are a full member of another IFAC member body
the following:
and have followed that body’s IFAC-compliant (IES 7) CPD
programme. Visit www.ifac.org for a listing of member • Incompetence in carrying out work;
bodies. • Breach of ACCA bye-laws or regulations;
Not met the CPD requirement? • Disciplinary action against you by another professional body
Check the box if you believe you have not been able to meet and/or regulator;
the CPD requirement (if you have been granted a waiver, you • Bankruptcy or insolvency;
should only check this box if you have not met your amended
• Failure to satisfy a judgment debt without reasonable excuse
requirement). ACCA will then contact you to assist you in
within two months;
making good your CPD shortfall. You will be required to make a
replacement CPD declaration once you have made good your • Criminal conviction and/or caution;
shortfall and met the CPD requirement. • Civil finding of acting fraudulently or dishonestly as a party or
witness in civil proceedings;
COMPLETING PART 2 • Misconduct – this includes (but is not limited to) any act, or
Complete Part 2 if you are an engagement partner as defined by failure to act, that is likely to discredit you or ACCA or the
IFAC IES 8 (Revised), ie a partner or other person in the firm who accountancy profession.
is responsible for the audit engagement and its performance,
If you have been subject to matters within the terms of bye-
and for the auditor’s report that is issued on behalf of the firm,
law 8 and ACCA’s Assessment or Investigations Department is
and who, where required, has the appropriate authority from a
aware of this, you may sign and submit this declaration. If you
professional, legal, or regulatory body.
are concerned that you may be subject to matters under bye-law
8 of which ACCA is not already aware, please notify ACCA by
COMPLETING PART 3 writing to complaintassessment@accaglobal.com or ACCA’s
You must sign the declaration to confirm the CPD information Assessment Department, The Adelphi, 1/11 John Adam Street,
you have provided is true and accurate, that you have London, WC2A 3EE, UK, after which you may sign and submit the
maintained your competence in relation to professional CPD declaration.
ethics, that you have not engaged in public practice without
holding an ACCA practising certificate or being placed on The ACCA Rulebook, which contains the bye-laws and regulations,
the register of ACCA practitioners and that you have not is available online at www.accaglobal.com/rulebook.
been subject to any matters within the terms of ACCA’s bye-
law 8 that have not already been brought to the attention
of ACCA’s Assessment or Investigations Departments.