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Application to Membership 2010
Please click here for information about Applying for Membership in 2010.
KBC Subscription Finance Agreement
The CPA Institute together with KBC have arranged a Subscription Finance Agreement for all students intending to apply for membership in 2010. Please click here for further information.
Admisson to Membership : Requirements
To qualify as a CPA, an applicant must satisfy the following criteria:
Examination Success
The student must successfully complete all four stages of CPA Examinations before making an application for membership.
Training Requirement
The CPA Institute requires that all students must complete a minimum of three years relevant supervised training. CPA students can fulfil their training requirements working in practice, industry, commerce, the public sector or any combination of these categories. At any given time CPA students can select the employer and sector in which to work. This overall freedom of movement ensures that CPA students can continue to progress in their chosen career while studying for the CPA examinations. Training experience must be documented in a Training Record. For information on how to complete a training record, please click here.
Competency Guide & Return
Applicants are required to submit a Competency Guide and Return which is signed off by your employer/supervisor and specifically refers to the relevant technical competencies, professional values, ethics and attitudes that they have observed you demonstrate in your training.Please click here for further information.
Evidence of Practical IT Competence
Evidence of students’ practical competence in IT is a prerequisite for admission to membership. You may meet this requirement by either sending in your ECDL certificate or submitting a Certificate of Practical IT Competence signed by your supervisor (which testifies that you have adequately demonstrated all the ECDL competencies in the workplace). Any gaps in the required areas are required to be filled by taking the equivalent module(s) of the ECDL test and a certificate for the relevant module(s) must be submitted with your application.
Two written references
These must be original signed references on headed paper that are written for the specific purpose of your application for admission to membership and must be submitted with your application. One should be from the principal of your present or recent past employer and the second should be from a member of the Institute. In the unlikely event that you do not know a CPA member, you may submit a reference from a member in good standing of another professional accountancy body.
Application Form
Please complete the Admission to Membership Application Form and include with all other required documents.
Students should note that upon admission to membership, they are required to pay an Annual Member Subscription. The Annual Member Subscription for 2010 is €544.
The Conferring Ceremony is held annually in December. All students who have successfully completed the Professional 2 level of exams will receive an Application for Admission to Membership Form and will have a one month period in which to submit their fully completed application. It is important to note that a student is not entitled to use the designatory letters ‘CPA’ or to describe themselves as a CPA until such time as the student has been admitted to membership at the Conferring Ceremony.
Students should note that, upon admission to membership, they are required to pay an Annual Member Subscription.
For queries regarding Admission to Membership, contact CPA Student Development Executive Cliodhna Kenny.
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