Straight answers, in plain language.

Yes. If you do not yet meet ACCA's entry requirements, you can start with ACCA's Foundations in Accountancy route and move across. Graduates may be exempt from some Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills exams; ACCA's exemptions calculator shows what your qualification earns.

Up to 13 exams in three levels: Applied Knowledge (BT, MA, FA), Applied Skills (LW, PM, TX, FR, AA, FM) and Strategic Professional (SBL and SBR plus two options). Levels are taken in order; within a level you can sit the exams in any order.

You take two of Advanced Financial Management, Advanced Performance Management, Advanced Taxation and Advanced Audit and Assurance. Choose the two closest to the work you do or want to do; HPS lecturers can talk the choice through with you.

Session exams run four times a year, in March, June, September and December. BT, MA, FA and the Global and English versions of LW are on demand, so you sit them when you are ready at a registered centre. The ACCA page on this site lists the dates ACCA has published.

Up to four exams in a session and eight different exams in a calendar year. HPS recommends two papers per session for students working full time.

ACCA starts a new qualification. June 2027 is the last sitting of the current Applied Skills and Strategic Professional exams, and from September 2027 students sit the new qualification's exams. Plan your remaining papers around that date; the transition page explains the options.

No. Prior qualifications can earn exemptions only from the nine Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills exams, each with an exemption fee payable to ACCA.

All Strategic Professional exams must be passed within seven years of passing the first one.

About 20 hours of online business simulations that every student must complete for membership. It can be taken at any time after Applied Knowledge, and ACCA strongly advises finishing it before any Strategic Professional exam.

36 months of supervised experience in a relevant role and nine performance objectives: all five Essentials and four of the 17 Technical objectives, recorded in ACCA's MyExperience and signed off by your supervisor.

50% in every exam. Each exam page on this site shows the format, duration, marks and exam structure as ACCA publishes them.

No. You register and enter for exams directly with ACCA. HPS provides tuition, practice and, for on-demand papers, the computer-based exam centre. ACCA's own fees are paid to ACCA directly.

ACCA charges a registration fee, an annual subscription, an entry fee for each exam and a fee for each exemption. They are separate from HPS tuition fees and are paid to ACCA. The Exam Cost Planner helps you total them for your route.

Tuition for the ACCA exams paper by paper, timed mocks in the HPS Exam Room, and ACCA's certificate programmes: Data Analytics, Sustainability for Finance, International Financial Reporting, International Auditing, IPSAS and Public Financial Management.

HPS mocks follow each exam's published structure and run in the HPS Exam Room, which behaves like the computer-based exam: a server-kept clock, autosave, flags, a question navigator and a review screen. Every lost mark is explained afterwards.

15 papers in three levels: Foundation (A1 to A4), Skills (B1 to B6) and Professional (C1 to C5), all compulsory. A level must be completed before you move to the next.

Twice a year, in May and November. Entries close one week before the exams, and each diet's advert sets the exact registration window.

Within a level you can enter any number of papers, and each pass is credited on its own. HPS helps you choose a realistic number for the hours you have.

50% in every paper. Each paper is passed and credited on its own; there is no aggregate pass.

Papers run for 3 hours plus 15 minutes' reading time. The Case Study runs for 4 hours including reading time.

Yes. ICAN's 2025 syllabus (updated 2026) is the current one, and HPS courses follow it. Each paper page on this site lists the syllabus areas and the weightings ICAN publishes.

They are credited paper by paper: BMF as BE, MI as MA, BL as CBL, AA as AAF, CR as SBR and AAA as AAAF. Corporate Strategic Management and Ethics carries no credit, and candidates who had not completed Skills must sit the new Financial Management paper.

Skills and Professional papers are written. The syllabus allows Foundation to be paper-based or computer-based, and ICAN has announced a move to computer-based exams without yet naming the levels or the diet.

ICAN's syllabus says Professional must be completed within ten diets, while ICAN's May 2026 advert says a five-year rule from the first credit now applies. Check which applies to your registration with ICAN.

Exemptions are granted by academic and professional qualification. ATSWA holders from 2010 are exempt from all Foundation papers plus B2 and B3, and ICAN's Council can exempt a failed paper where a further qualification shows the competence.

36 months under a training agreement with an ICAN-approved training employer. Up to 12 months of experience gained before registration can count.

A computer-based test on professional values, ethics and attitudes, with soft skills assessed alongside. You can take it at any time during your studentship, and it is required for membership.

Pass the examinations, the ethics test and the practical experience requirement, with professional development, and ICAN inducts you as an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA).

No. You register and enter for each diet directly with ICAN and pay ICAN's fees to ICAN. HPS provides tuition, practice and mock examinations.

Many HPS students complete both. ICAN members can apply for exemptions from several ACCA exams and ACCA members can pursue ICAN membership through ICAN's own routes; the exact exemptions change, so confirm them with each body before you plan around them.

HPS is registered with ACCA as a computer-based exam centre for the on-demand exams: BT, MA, FA and LW. Use the booking request form to ask for a date.

Session exams are entered through ACCA's own system, which assigns the centre. The HPS exam centre team can advise you on entry.

No. External candidates are welcome.

Send a booking request with the exam, your preferred and alternative dates and your ACCA registration number. You receive a reference immediately, and the team emails you to confirm the slot, usually within one working day.

That depends on the slots open at the centre. Give a preferred and an alternative date in your request; the team confirms the earliest suitable slot.

The confirmation email for your slot sets out what is payable and how to pay. Your booking is final once payment is confirmed.

Your ACCA registration details and valid photo identification that matches your ACCA record. Nothing else goes into the exam room.

Thirty minutes before your slot, so identification checks are finished before the exam starts.

Results for on-demand exams are provisional on the day of the exam; ACCA confirms them afterwards.

No. On-demand exams can be re-sat; book a new slot when you are ready.

Contact the exam centre team with your booking reference as early as you can. Payments are final once confirmed; where HPS cancels a sitting and cannot offer a suitable alternative, HPS will discuss moving the fee to another sitting.

Individual workstations, invigilation to ACCA standards and a waiting area for candidates.

ACCA's examination rules apply, in addition to HPS's terms, and the invigilator explains what may go into the room. Misconduct can be reported to ACCA.

Add it to the notes on your booking request so the team can tell you what the centre can arrange. Formal adjustments for ACCA exams are applied for through ACCA.

Yes. The HPS Exam Room runs timed practice that behaves like the computer-based exam, and the free practice tests need no account.

At the HPS head office, No 4, Lafia Close by UBA Bank, Garki Area 8, Abuja, the same address as classroom tuition.

Pay by bank transfer to the HPS account shown at checkout, then upload your proof of payment. The admissions team confirms the transfer, usually within one working day, and your learning access is activated. Card payments are offered when a card gateway is available at checkout.

When HPS has received and confirmed your payment, or has agreed an instalment plan or a corporate invoice arrangement with you in writing.

Only the account shown at checkout, in the name of Hedge Professional Services Ltd.

The order reference shown at checkout, so the admissions team can match your transfer to your enrolment.

Upload it from your order after checkout. PNG, JPG, WebP and PDF files up to 5 MB are accepted.

Usually within one working day of your proof being uploaded.

Instalments must be agreed in advance with the admissions team, in writing. The first agreed instalment is due within the period stated on the invoice or checkout page.

HPS's published policy is that all payments are final once confirmed and are non-refundable. Where HPS cancels a programme and cannot offer a suitable alternative, HPS will discuss transferring the fee to another programme.

No. Registration, exam entry, annual subscription and exemption fees are paid by you directly to ACCA or ICAN and follow their own terms.

On the course page, or confirmed to you in writing before you pay. Where a fee is not yet shown, it is published on enrolment.

Yes. Organisations can enrol staff through the Corporate Academy and pay by corporate invoice, agreed with HPS in writing.

HPS may suspend learning access while a payment is overdue. Speak to the admissions team early if a payment will be late.

Payments are final once confirmed. Speak to the admissions team before you pay if your start date might change.

No. The free practice tests, the diagnostic, the study planner and the business and tax tools cost nothing and need no card.

The admissions team, through the contact page or by phone, with your order reference.

No. Free practice tests and the diagnostic run without an account. Create a free account when you want to keep your results, build a study plan and see your Knowledge DNA over time.

Yes. Lessons, readings, practice questions, the study planner, results and the Learning Journal all work on a phone. Mock exams with a spreadsheet working area need a laptop or desktop, and the platform tells you before you start.

Your study plan: a week-by-week schedule built from your exam date, your hours and your weak topics. Each session is marked Learn, Practise, Revise, Mock or Review, and the plan rebuilds itself when you miss one.

A topic-by-topic map of where you stand, updated by every answer you give, so revision goes where marks are being lost.

Every question you get wrong is kept with its explanation, and the vault feeds the following week's plan.

Timed practice that behaves like the real computer-based exam: a server-kept clock, autosave, flags, a question navigator and a review screen before you submit.

Answers save automatically as you work and queue if you go offline. When you reconnect, the platform resumes your attempt with the same server-controlled deadline. If the deadline passes while you are offline, the attempt is submitted with the answers already saved.

Yes. Each answer is explained, results are broken down by syllabus area, and wrong answers go to your Mistake Vault.

Yes. Lessons have video, notes and exercises with bookmarks and transcripts, and your position follows you between devices.

For the duration stated on the course page, from the date your enrolment is confirmed.

No. Access is personal to the enrolled student, and timed assessments record sign-in details to protect their integrity.

No. HPS writes its own questions to the official syllabus areas. Use ACCA's and ICAN's own specimen and past exams alongside them.

You and the lecturers on your course. If your employer enrolled you, it sees completion and attendance; your individual diagnostic results are shared only if you allow it.

A private space in the student portal to note what you learned, what confused you and what to revisit.

Yes. HPS processes personal data under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 and does not sell it. The privacy policy explains what is collected and your rights.

Training for finance teams in regulators, public institutions and businesses: a diagnosis before the training, progress during it and measurement after, with a portal that tracks every employee.

A free assessment in Free Tools that profiles a finance team across five areas: people, process, systems, controls and reporting.

A free tool that shows where a team's skills are strong and where training will pay back fastest.

Yes. Choose from the corporate catalogue or commission a programme built for your context and your systems.

At HPS in Abuja, on site at your organisation, or online.

Among them IPSAS, data analytics, sustainability in finance, international auditing, taxation, financial management, Excel modelling and project management, alongside ACCA and ICAN tuition.

Employees, assigned programmes, progress, certificates, a skills matrix, reports and invoices, in one place.

Completion and attendance are shared with the organisation. Individual diagnostic results are shared only where the employee allows it in their profile.

By corporate invoice, under an arrangement agreed with HPS in writing before the programme starts.

Yes. Certificates are issued on completion and appear in the corporate portal.

Yes. Staff can be enrolled on HPS courses through the corporate account, and their progress appears in the portal.

Repeat the assessment after the programme to measure change in the team, not just attendance.

More than 50 institutions, including regulators, ministries, public bodies, businesses and universities. The organisations section of this site lists them with their logos.

Use the request form under Organisations. Tell HPS about the team, the subject and your preferred dates, and the Corporate Academy will come back to you.

The upcoming cohorts page lists HPS programmes with their dates. Dates still to be confirmed are marked.

Tax services, audit and forensic investigation, business advisory, financial advisory and sustainability services, for public and private organisations.

HPS and its subsidiary Floray Professionals. The people who teach these subjects to ACCA and ICAN candidates are the people who do the work.

With a written scope: the work, the team, the timeline and the fee are agreed before fieldwork starts. No engagement begins without one.

Normally within one working day.

PAYE and corporate tax advice, computations, planning, tax audits and due diligence.

An independent examination carried out under terms of reference agreed with you, with a report written to be acted on.

Yes, with financial projections, for start-ups, SMEs and established businesses.

Accounting records, reconciliations, financial statements and analysis.

Sustainability audit and advice for organisations, alongside training in sustainability in finance for their teams.

Yes. HPS advises public and private organisations, and trains regulators, ministries and public institutions.

The fee is set out in the written scope and agreed before any work starts.

No. They give a preliminary view to help you size the work before you call; they are never a professional opinion.

The PAYE and VAT estimators, the Finance Team Health Check, the internal control review and the business plan readiness check, all in Free Tools.

Yes. No engagement detail is published without the client's agreement.

Use the consultation request form or the contact page, and tell HPS what you need. HPS normally replies within one working day.