The Association of Authorised Public Accountants (AAPA) is a British professional body for public accountants. The AAPA was formed in 1978 as a professional body for auditors recognised individually under the Companies Act 1948. AAPA achieved formal recognition by the Department of Trade and Industry in 1989 when the Companies Act received

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. In September 1991, AAPA achieved the status of a ''Recognised Supervisory Body'' and eligible AAPA members have since been entitled to use the designation ''Registered Auditor''. AAPA is not an examining body: all of its members have been admitted either because they have individual audit authorisation or because they have obtained a qualification from another body which is recognised for audit purposes in the UK. At an Extraordinary General Meeting on 24 June 1996, members of AAPA voted for the body to become a subsidiary company of the

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(ACCA). AAPA is, therefore, a company limited by guarantee and registered in

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. While maintaining its own separate and distinctive identity constitutionally, AAPA now benefits from a wide range of authorisation and support facilities through the ACCA.

Application for membership

Membership is available to those who are in public practice (as principals or employees) in the following categories: * those who can demonstrate that they obtained individual authorisation to undertake the audit of limited companies under Sections 389(1)(b) or 389(2) of the Companies Act 1985 s these sections provided prior to their repeal by Companies Act 1989immediately before 1 January 1990 and the commencement of Section 25 Part II of Companies Act 1989 (or the Northern Ireland equivalent) * those who hold the recognised professional qualification awarded by the

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(AIA)after June 1991 under the terms of Section 31 of the Companies Act 1989 and who have fulfilled the requisite experience requirements. (Members in good standing of ACCA and of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, who are eligible to hold practising certificates, also have the right to apply for membership of AAPA under the terms of its bye-laws.) {{As of, 2008 the admission fee is £175. The annual subscription becomes payable from 1 January following the date of admission.

External links

AAPA section of ACCA website
Accounting in the United Kingdom Professional accounting bodies

Application for membership

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