ACCA's controllers have got used to treating the Associations as a private fiefdom. They have turned a professional body into a trading corporation. They abuse ACCA's resources and avoid democratic accountability. To silence members they prematurely close the AGMs, ignore questions, massage minutes of meetings, write to critical members' employers and conduct hate campaigns through the magazine. But they still can't break the spirit of the members who want to make the Association a better and stronger organization. What will they do next?

At the 17 February 2000 EGM, one ACCA member Jaffer Manek (a respected practitioner and writer on professional matters) drew attention the debasement of the ACCA. He argued the following.
 
The motion has to be given a chance. After all the froth has fizzled, all the smoke has cleared and all the steam has been let, the fact remains that ACCA today is a peculiar professional body that has turned into a feudal multinational without shareholders.

Let me justify that.

With multinational I mean:

• a world-wide customer base
• income in the millions
• segmental marketing
• awesome titles for officers such as Chief Executive, Director of this and that
• Annual subscription rise £5 year on year

With feudal I mean:

• Proxy vote system that is untenable in the Internet Age
• the photograph culture i.e. photographs of people in power being everywhere just as in feudal countries
• "power and privilege" with its cronies culture
• demonisation of those who dares to make constructive criticism of ACCA
• disciplinary action used selectively to take revenge on critics - they just have to wait for a complaint however tenuous it may be

• the High Court  viz. the Bankole case
• the Crown via the visitorial powers of the Lord Chancellor - I have proof if anyone wants it (To visit Jaffer's Web site and a new free newsletter for ACCA members - click here)