No. SAICA also requires a Curriculum Vitae -and surely, that will need to have to include all work experience. However, the Portfolio of Work should focus on your post CIMA membership experience. As you would have already used all experience obtained prior to becoming CIMA member as part of your CIMA membership application, SAICA will mainly be interested in Portfolio of Work you undertook since becoming a CIMA member.

 Absolutely not! ALL newly-qualified CAs(SA) irrespective of the path followed must always meet IRBA’s additional requirements to practice as a Registered Auditor (RA). See link: http://www.irbalearning.co.za/the-audit-development-programme/what-is-the-adp

It differs from one application to the other. A number of cases have been concluded within 1-10 days. 

 This is not true. The relevant SAICA committee meets three times per annum, in March, June and October. Our general advice is that you should start the process as soon as possible -especially if you wish to join our September/October 2017 intake in preparation for the June 2018 SAICA-ITC/Board 1 exam sitting. Although it is not necessary to await SAICA decision as you are automatically eligible if you have CIMA+ 2yrs post-qualification experience,  we are currently in consultation to determine if to shift the start date of our September/October intake by a few weeks to allow those who nonetheless, wish to await SAICA decision to join the course. 

Yes! You will be eligible to write the ITC but will not be able to claim any reduction in the number of years to complete a SAICA Training contract -from the standard 3 years, unless and until you have had the minimum of 3-5 years of relevant work experience. 

We begin on September 30th for the June 2018 exam sitting. For the January 2019 Exam sitting, we begin in February 2019. You can attend our course by booking for the Tuition and Exam Preparation Package (TEPP) which runs in the Evenings or over Weekends. Students who are away from our Sandton Campus can book for the TEPP –Interactive Livestream Package. For more information about our course, download the  CIMA-to-SAICA Membership Pathway Agreement Course Pack 2017/2018/2019

UNISA alone  enrols  almost half (40%) of all accounting students in South Africa and its CTA course structure is more open to CharterQuest –being a distance learning institution. In the most recent June 2017 SAICA ITC Exam sitting, ‘’Candidates who completed the CTA Programme with UNISA have achieved excellent results, with a 69% pass rate for candidates attempting the ITC examination for the first time, and a 60% average for all candidates from UNISA. In total, 401 former UNISA students passed the ITC examination. This represents 21% of all successful candidates. UNISA also outperformed all other universities in terms of the number of successful candidates, as well as outclassing some residential universities in the percentage pass rate.’’  http://www.UNISA.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/News-&-Media/Articles/Classy-results-from-CAS-in-2017-SAICA-ITC

The SAICA Board 1/ITC has undergone major changes in the recent past. To ensure up-to-date knowledge of the ITC, we mainly hire passionate professionals who passed and/or taught SAICA Board 1/ITC in the last 3 years, are CAs and/or ACCAs and/or CIMA-qualified -but with numerous years of experience in teaching CTA/SAICA Board 1 courses; or ACCA subjects with heavy technical content in IFRS, taxation and auditing. We  prioritise  lecturers who have mastered the CIMA and CTA/SAICA Board 1 curriculum, to make the unique  judgements  required to fast track CIMA members to quickly master the rigorous integrated technical skills embedded within IFRS, taxation  and  auditing -as required to pass the SAICA Board 1/ITC Exams. At this time, we are still  finalising  lecturer contracting and will publish their profiles no later than August 31, 2017.

Yes! But keep in mind our September intake will be for June 2018 exam sitting, so all the IFRSs and SAICA pronouncements we will teach will have a cut off for June 2018. It is possible that some of your books will be expired by the January 2019 exam sitting and because some of the pronouncements that will be applicable in the January 2019 sitting will not be applicable yet for the June 2018 sitting, this will not be covered. You will then have to do the extra work necessary to update your knowledge for any changes in study materials or examinable pronouncements.

We will provide the prescribed study texts, slides/course notes and past questions and answers, and will drive the teaching in class through the slides/course notes which will include a fair amount of practice questions.

Having covered the core examinable materials in class using the course notes, and worked through exam standard practice questions on the subject matter covered, more past questions and answers will be provided for you to do the extra practice and evaluate yourself during your spare time.

A key limiting factor in our schedules is lecturer resources. Most of our lecturers teach the CTA with other universities (Wits, UJ and UNISA) and become very involved with the marking of CTA during this period –and as such, will hardly be available to run classes. So we schedule our classes to release them to go mark CTA and bring back that expertise to help us run the last lap of the course –the SAICA Board 1/ITC course that starts in November.

Yes! As we have structured our course and aligned it to the UNISA CTA structure, we are confident that each module will start from the basics. Our key advantage is that having taught the CIMA for years, we are in unique position to know what attributes CIMA members bring to the SAICA Board 1, and can  safety  say whilst presumptions will be made  on  the Management Accounting Module, we are only too mindful that SAICA Board 1/ITC is very technical especially  on  the Financial Reporting, Auditing and Taxation module. It is therefore imperative we  recognise  that you will need specific grounding in these modules –so, every special effort will be made to ensure these start from the basics, and the knowledge developed to the applied and integrated level required to do well in SAICA/ITC exams.