emaopel:
Love the profession and being accounting graduate...give me more passion to write it... but I don't really know how to go about it fully...can you give me more enlightenment?
Thanks.

kingphilip:
boss I remain loyal o



You just forget your boy

ibbryte:

Very sound effort from the OP.
I can attest to the validity of his post.



I myself am at the final professional stage of ICAN, i have written all my exams from the AAT till now without ever taking lectures and with just one reference in ATS 2 QA.
And i intend to finish without ever stepping in a lecture centre.


Goodluck to fellow comrades writing this may diet.

Electronzeez:


I don't remember having a boy that is old enough to be chartered.

danthamccoy:
Having no background in Accounting makes ICAN considerably more difficult right? Being realistic here.

kingphilip:
now i have reminded you

emaopel:
Love the profession and being accounting graduate...give me more passion to write it... but I don't really know how to go about it fully...can you give me more enlightenment?
Thanks.

kingphilip:
no it doesn't make it difficult as you make it seem


I know of people who read economics and also micro biology become chartered accountants

danthamccoy:

Thanks bro. I did Economics.

tartarus:
I CAN?. Don't think it's enough. Just registered for the CFA exams, awaiting my study books and I'm a science student o! Bsc in biotechnology. First time I'm doing something in the financial/commercial aspect. All self taught

You'll never excel except you take risks.

danthamccoy:
Having no background in Accounting makes ICAN considerably more difficult right? Being realistic here.

HRHQueenPhil:
i will like 2 write this examination, but i stay in aba and av no one 2 teach me evrything and pass very well. anyone ready 2 take challenge?

Naijaaccountwiz:

I need details of the process for cfa pls

JARUSHUB:
Coming from a family of chartered accountants , I think I heard about the examinations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) at a quite early age, probably from primary school. I heard all such tales about ICAN exams. I used to see ICAN exams as one monster.

To compound my fears, when I crossed from being a science student to a commercial one in second term SSS 1 in 1998, apart from mathematics, accounting was the subject I dreaded most. Thankfully, accounting, unlike math, has some theoretical parts (all those ‘name 5 types of account’, ‘what is a subsidiary book?’, etc questions), so I still managed to pass, banking on those ‘story’ aspects.

In the university, studying economics, I had option to take elective courses in departments such as Management and Accounting, Sociology, Geography, Demography and Social Statistics, and psychology.

To add insult to injury, my school’s management and accounting department was not the most organized of departments as my friends in the department used to complain about cases of loss of scripts due to the high volume of students. So I found in Sociology and Psychology departments elective allies, and the Alphas were almost always guaranteed, never mind the headache those abstract Sigmund Freud theories in Psychology 204 gave me.

I was still able to avoid accounting in the university. At least, I remember a friend's accounting exams script missing in our 200 level. That was definitely not an experience I would like to have, further fuelling my hatred for accounting.

From my interactions with folks, especially the less informed ones, I have come to observe the reason why people dread ICAN and their exams. The following are the 4 major myths about ICAN:


1. ICAN DELIBERATELY FAILS STUDENTS: Giving the failure rate recorded in ICAN exams, I can pardon people for believing this. But this is actually a lie. I personally hold that no examination body will deliberately fail you if you pass, not least ICAN. I have heard all sort of tales like ICAN fail people so as to make money from exam fees. This is a big fat lie. As far as I know – and I think I know farthest – if you score 50% in any ICAN exams, you will never fail that paper. Of course, there was a time when if you failed woefully in one subject, you will be required to rewrite other papers you passed in same diet, but this was not a secret as the system was made known in their students guideline. This system has since been jettisoned, except at the final stage when you are required to pass a number of subjects for you not to rewrite others you passed. So students should purge their mind of this erroneous belief. I never believed it anyway, and anytime I get to advise ICAN candidates, including in my first class in the ICAN center I was lecturing a while back, the first thing I do is cleanse their mind of this pessimistic mindset. How can you go to a war with a mindset that your efforts will not count? ICAN will not fail you if you pass, and there is no way you can score 50% in a subject and marked failed.

2. ICAN IS A YORUBA AFFAIR: I was having an introductory class with some ICAN students last year. They were preparing for Foundation examinations and that was their first attempt. In the process of ‘sermonizing’ on how students bandy unfounded myths around, trying to demystify their self-inflicted fears, one student from the eastern part of Nigeria asked me, ‘Oga, but I heard ICAN is a Yoruba body. Only Yoruba people do and pass it’. I laughed. I knew Nigerians are incurable ethnic wolf-criers, but I never knew it had reached that extent. I am aware Nigerians like to raise ethnic false alarm and cry tribal victimization when something doesn’t go in their favour, but I never knew such thoughts could be nursed of a professional body like ICAN. Well, I told her it’s a big fat lie. ICAN is not and can never be a Yoruba affair. Irrespective of where you come from, if you pass ICAN exams, nobody will deny you based on your tribe.

3. ICAN IS A SOUTHERN BODY: I have heard a couple of northern friends, especially those in public service, accuse ICAN of being a southern thing. For this reason, many northerners believe they are being sidelined. Many northerners prefer to go for a rival accounting body. Again, this is naked myth. Besides, northerners have being presidents of the association.

4. ICAN IS A CULT: Given the solidarity and bond that exist among ICAN members, you can forgive those that hold this myth. I have heard people say ICAN is a cult, that they only admit certain people. Naija people sha. ICAN is the most transparently run Nigerian professional body I know. Everything about it is transparent. Of course, they are like a family, with young members treating the older and senior ones with high reverence.

http://www.jarushub.com/4-myths-about-ican/

Inexhaustible:
You made me laugh with your write up.
Believe me, one only need to be an average student to pass ICAN, it is not as difficult as people think. All you need is sacrifice, focus, commitment and self belief. I qualified in 3 diets, passed my skills level at once, passed 4 out of 5 in professional in the 2nd diet and kill the last paper in the 3rd diet.

I wish all the ACAs in the making best of luck

lajid:


Good evening sir, I’ll like to ask some questions regarding ican. As a graduate of accounting, from what level will I start from; skills or professional?

Also, how long does it takes to qualify. Is it after one diet or two diet?

Thanks as I await your response.

Blakpot:

Hello,
I wanted to ask a similar question, then I saw ur post.
What level did u start from?
I have a BSC in Economics, but dont know if I should start from foundation, skills or general.

lajid:


You are to start from foundation