FASEA just made life easier for some advisers

FASEA has now approved two further professional designations as eligible for recognition of prior learning credits.

Those advisers who completed coursework to attain the Certified Practicing Accountants (CPA) in or after 1989 will be awarded one credit. They’ll be eligible for a further RPL credit if they completed at least one financial planning elective in the program.

Those electives are:

  • Personal financial planning and superannuation
  • Financial planning fundamentals
  • Superannuation and retirement planning
  • Investment strategies
  • Risk advice and insurance
  • Financial risk management

Furthermore, advisers who completed coursework to attain the Charted Accountant designation offered by the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), in or after 1972, will also be awarded one RPL credit.

Commenting on the new approvals, FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield said: “The awarding of credits for coursework to attain the CPA and CAANZ designations provides appropriate recognition to existing advisers who have undertaken these further studies.”

This news follows FASEA assigning RPL credits for the Association of Financial Advisers’ and Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner (FChFP) and Chartered Life Practitioner (ChLP) designations (two credits) and the SMSF Association’ SMSF Specialist Adviser designation (one credit).

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