PTC - Professional Training Club

The Professional Training Club (PTC), delivered to you by ATC International, is the on-line support service for ACCA and DipIFR students and tuition providers.

ACCA Professional Examination Scheme

The ACCA course material is designed by ATC International’s expert tutors and focuses on the most important topics and exam practise techniques that students need to succeed in their ACCA exams.

Diploma in International Financial Reporting (DipIFR)

The material specifically designed for ACCA’s specialist qualification – the Diploma in International Financial Reporting (DipIFR), has been commissioned by ACCA and is the only officially approved material for this qualification.

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To become a member of The Professional Training Club, please choose the qualification you are studying and click the join button or have a free visit through the site to find out more about the benefits of membership to the PTC.

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DipIFR - ACCA's Diploma in International Financial Reporting

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	Why might I be having problems downloading the study material? It may be that the PC you are using is an older, less powerful model in which case you should try to use a more modern machine if you can. It may also be that you are using a Netscape internet browser, which is not as effective in downloading our material as Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you can switch to an Internet Explorer browser, please do so as this should work better. See our FAQ dealing with the technical specification for more information of this kind.
	If I have any further questions which have not been answered on this page, who should I contact? Please contact George Wallace by e-mail on info@atc-global.com and we'll do everything possible to help you.
	What can I do if my password does not work or if I cannot download any of the study material? We hope that this will not happen but if you have problems of this kind, please contact us at the e-mail address provided and we will investigate and get back to you as soon as possible.
	Can I pay my £195 PTC fee by sterling bank draft? Yes, you can pay your PTC fee by sterling bank draft, credit card or cheque; either on-line or by downloading and completing the registration form and sending it to us with your payment. In the case of a sterling bank draft, the details you will require are as follows: Receiving bank details: Account Name: Accountancy Tuition Centre (International Holdings) Ltd Bank address: Lloyds TSB Bank Plc Thavies Inn House 6 Holborn Circus London EC1N 2HP For payments from UK: Account number: 01191221 Sort code: 30-94-31 For payments from outside UK: Account number (IBAN): GB82 LOYD 3094 3101 1912 21 Swift code: LOYDGB21037 Postal details: ATC International The Old Office Block Suite No 6 and 7 16 Elmtree Road Teddington Middlesex TW11 8ST UK
	Is all the study material which I can download from the PTC designed for ACCA's new syllabus? Very definately yes? Every piece of study material offered on the PTC has been specifically designed and written completely from scratch for ACCA's new Professional scheme, the first examinations for which take place in December 2001.
	Does my £195 give me membership of the PTC for a full year? Yes, your annual subscription runs from the day your access to the PTC is confirmed. You will receive a reminder, by e-mail, to renew your subscription before your membership anniversary. If you do not renew your membership, your access to the PTC will automatically expire on your anniversary date. The subscription period will cover you for two ACCA examination sessions. You will be able to nominate a maximum of four papers for which you can download study material from the PTC. This mirrors ACCA's regulation allowing you to take a maximum of four ACCA papers at any examination session. After each ACCA examination session, you will be asked to nominate a new set of four papers, based on those which you intend to sit at the next session. These could be the same papers as before or a different combination of papers, the choice is yours.
	What kind of computer equipment must I have in order to successfully register and download the study material from the PTC? As with all activities which take place on the internet, the success of your membership of the PTC is very dependent on the equipment you have access to at home or at your place of work. We recommend that your equipment meets the following minimum specification to ensure that you gain maximum advantage from your membership of the PTC. Hardware: A PC with a pentium processor with a minimum power rating of 200 MHz, 32MB of RAM, SVGA 1024x768, an internet connection operating at 52 Kb/s, a compatible printer and 20 MB free space on the hard disk drive. Software (minimum specification): Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Navigator4.7 or an Opera or a Mozilla browser, an e-mail program with a valid e-mail address and Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0. Please ensure that your cookies are enabled.
	Is there any difference between ACCA’s International and UK streams and can I use the PTC’s International stream downloads to study for UK stream examinations? There can be quite significant variances in some syllabus areas between the International and UK streams. While many of the issues may seem to be similar, their treatments under the different systems of standards might be very different. We therefore recommend that you do not use material prepared for the International stream to study for UK stream examinations. We are planning to provide UK stream downloads for PTC members in 2002, until then you should use other UK stream material to study for your examinations. Remember, only ACCA’s Accounting and Auditing papers are affected by the difference between International and UK streams. The Management and Systems papers are standard and the downloads we provide on the PTC can be used for all of these examinations. In the case of Tax, you can use the UK Tax study material unless you are sitting one of ACCA’s national Tax variant papers.