Come into our office and pick up the programme registration form of your choice, carefully complete it and return to us with all relevant documents listed at the back of the form.

CAT (Certified Accounting Technician) Programme

The ICAJ/ACCA CAT programme was introduced in January 1998. Students completing this programme can use the designation CAT after their names, once they have completed one year of relevant work experience.

Persons registering to do this programme must be aged 16 or over and will be required to complete all three levels of the CAT examination programee. Completion of the Certified Accounting Technician examinations offers automatic transfer to Part 2 of the ACCA professional examinations.

Persons must apply to the ICAJ and also its joint scheme partners in the United Kingdom, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), to be admitted as a registered student of the CAT or ACCA professional examination Programme

ICAJ/ACCA Joint Scheme Examination Programme

The signing of the Joint Scheme Agreement in 1984, between the ACCA and the Institute, set the stage for the Institute to mediate on behalf of students sitting the examinations locally, in addition to handling their registration and all administrative queries.

The professional qualifying examinations cover fourteen subjects, divided into three stages, which must be completed within ten years of the first examination diet.

If you are a resident in Jamaica, you must register with both the ICAJ and the ACCA under the joint scheme programme.

Association of Accounting Technician (AAT)

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica provides support to accounting technicians under an administrative agreement with the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), which took effect on January 1, 2002.

The agreement allows for the establishment of local support for the AAT in Jamaica through ICAJ, which will provide services to AAT students and members including student registration and general administration as well as the collection of student and membership fees.

The Association of Accounting Technician (AAT) gives Accounting Technicians a route to qualification with chartered professional accountancy bodies. AAT Examination Scheme consists of two parts - Devolved Assessment and Central Assessment. The scheme consists of a number of units of competence organized into three stages: Foundation, Intermediate and Technician.

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