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Its integrated components provide an in-depth understanding across business, finance and accountancy. Combined, they help build the technical knowledge, professional skills and practical experience needed to become an ICAEW Chartered Accountant.  \nP R  \nA  \nO F  \nN  \nE  \nETHICS  \nU  \nA  \nC  \nEach component is designed to complement each other, which means that students can put theory into practice and can understand and apply what they learn to their day-to-day work. The components are:  \n1. Business, fi nance and accountancy exams  \n2. Specialised Learning  \n3. Professional skills and experience  \nICAEW constantly reviews the content of the ACA qualification to reflect real-life business challenges. Over the next decade, sustainability, technology and ethics will be the three key themes impacting every accountant and business they serve. We work closely with employers, tuition providers, academics and examiners to ensure that the ACA equips the chartered accountants of the future with the skills and knowledge they need to meet these challenges and to be successful. Sustainability, technology and ethics have been integrated throughout the qualification, delivering forward-thinking business leaders ready for the challenges of tomorrow’s world.  \nTHE ACA QUALIFICATION AND SUSTAINABILITY  \nFinance and accounting professionals need to move beyond simply measuring and reporting the impact of climate change, environmental regulation, supply chain pressure and rising energy costs. They must focus on understanding these and other emerging sustainabilityrelated implications, integrating them into financial management and strategic business planning. ICAEW has been at the forefront of this movement over the past decade and has adapted the ACA qualification to reflect that. We see its role as not simply integrating knowledge and understanding the broader implications of environmental, social and governance issues into organisations, but also seeding this thinking into the mindset of our members.  \nOur syllabus, Specialised Learning and professional skills and experience contribute toward creating ICAEW Chartered Accountants who recognise that sustainability is at the core of what they do and are capable of actively using their business skills to analyse how to make the new sustainable economy work for their business.  \nSustainability is an integrated element from assurance and corporate reporting to strategic business planning and management reporting, providing transparent information for users. It’s an embedded element across the ACAqualification with its beginnings at the newly developed Sustainability and Ethics module at Certificate Level through to the Strategic Case Study at Advanced Level. 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