Have you heard the propaganda from ACCA bureaucrats? They claim that ACCA is global and also rules the world and that all over the world governments are queuing up to listen to them. Funny, how they have failed to provide information about the global composition of the ACCA membership.
Earlier this year, Professor Prem Sikka asked ACCA for a breakdown of its membership by geographical areas. In response ACCA's spokesperson claimed that such information is "confidential" (here is the e-mail dated 5th April 2000: The statistics to which you refer are confidential within ACCA and are not published). Of course, the bureaucrats were going to say that because the request for information co-incided with an AGM motion to raise the number of signatories for EGMs. The bureaucrats were not going to release information that could arguably have led to a more informed debate.
As the leadership prefers to keep members in the dark AABA is now able to publish the relevant information below. It shows that ACCA is collection of former British colonies and offshore islands. It has no great presence anywhere. The largest membership is in the UK but ACCA has no influence in the UK. Witness the way ACCA's concerns have been brushed aside over the raising of the small company audit threshold.
As you read the information below please remember that 1% of the
membership needs to sign a requisition for an EGM. In most cases the entire
membership in a country could be unhappy with the ACCA management but will
not be able to secure an EGM because they do not have 710 members (assuming
that the ACCA membership is 71,000).
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ACCA Membership by Country 1995-1999 (more than 50 members)
1999 1998 1997
1996
1995
UK 38124
35846 33057 29581
26774
Non UK
Ireland 3871
3560 3210 2654
2203
Hong Kong 11138 10091 9092
7705 6762
Malaysia 4601
4094 3631 3081
2718
Singapore 3074 2778
2453 2036
1791
Canada
911 881 848
801 767
Australia 847
791 773
752 718
Cyprus
773 700 617
526 468
Trinidad 763
696 593
487 409
USA
779 691 602
542 521
Mauritius 755
660 568
444 358
Jamaica 622
561 480
393 325
Kenya
431 438 401
355 326
Zambia
374 335 288
211 196
Nigeria 352
401 388
378 442
Ghana
230 230 218
196 191
Malta
201 188 179
169 158
China
237 155 97
55
53
Barbados 193
179 169
148 131
Malawi 172
162 122
97
92
New Zealand 171 165
147 128
119
South Africa 157 136
126 120
108
Poland
152 98 ---
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Russia
125 85 ---
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UAE
124 121 101
94
83
Czech Rep 116
64 ----
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Botswana 110
100 84
66
60
France
109 93
86 79
76
Uganda
105 74
61 ---
--
Tanzania 95
95 91
86 96
Switzerland 83
66 62
61 62
Sri Lanka 75
68 58
Netherlands 70
55 -
--
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Bahamas 65
61 58
53
55
Hungary
65 55
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Guyana
58 59
56 ---
--
Saudi Arabia 57 60
62 59
64
Greece
55 --
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- -
Other
1598 1191 1268 1223
1157
Outside UK &
Ireland
29543 26677 23779 20341
18253
Total
71538 66083 60046 52576
47230