You must be eligible when you submit your Research and Analysis Project. The eligibility criteria cannot be amended or altered. OBU will not offer extensions to allow you to sit papers in the June session.
In order to be eligible to submit a Research and Analysis Project you must:
- Have passed the three ACCA Applied Skills examinations Financial Reporting (was F7), Audit and Assurance (was F8) and Financial Management (was F9)
- Have passed, or gained exemption from, the other six papers at the Knowledge Level and Skills Level. Note that conditional exemptions do not qualify you to submit the RAP.
- Have completed the ACCA Ethics and Professional Skills module (or the previous Professional Ethics module)
- Be up-to-date with the payment of your ACCA subscription fees.
- Demonstrate currency of knowledge by either:
- passing your RAP within 10 years of the earliest of: the date of your first ACCA examination pass, or the date of your first ACCA exemption being granted, or
- passing 3 ACCA examinations (either Applied Skills or Strategic Professional) within 5 years of submission of your RAP, or
- being a full member of ACCA who submitted a CPD return in Jan 2026.
We do not recommend students forfeit their exemptions for ACCA Applied Skills examinations Financial Reporting (was F7), Audit and Assurance (was F8) and Financial Management (was F9) as you may not have time to pass the required examination and then complete a Research and Analysis Project.
If you are considering taking Strategic Professional examinations, consider how long it will take to prepare for the Strategic Professional exams and whether you will also have enough time to prepare a RAP.
If you cannot convert your conditional exemptions before May 2026, you are not eligible for the BSc Applied Accounting.
If you are a member who gained exemptions from Financial Reporting (was F7), Audit and Assurance (was F8) and Financial Management (was F9) then you are not eligible for the BSc Applied Accounting. For members, OBU will check your membership record with ACCA to confirm that your CPD is up to date. There is no need, for you, to provide OBU with confirmation of this.
If you have been advised by Oxford Brookes University that you are not eligible for the BSc Applied Accounting programme and then subsequently submit a Research and Analysis Project, you will not receive a mark for the RAP, or an award. An administrative charge of £100 will be deducted from the submission fee before it is refunded to you.