The following motion of  'no confidence' in ACCA has been tabled by a group of MPs in the British House of Commons. It highlights the institutionalised corruption at ACCA. The points in the motion highlights that
 

• ACCA uses a system of voting which is outlawed for trade unions
• ACCA presidents continue to cast 20-25% of all votes thus "appointing" Council members.
• The ACCA officials do not use the 'proxy form' approved by members and contained in the official rulebook. Instead, they pre-print the name of the President on the forms.
• ACCA President failed to answer any questions put to him at the AGM.
• The minutes of the AGM meetings (as produced in the official magazine) are usually incorrect. The Chief Executive carefully removes all questions and criticisms.
• 50% of the ACCA's UK membership is non-white. Yet there has never been a non-white officeholder. Recently, after complaints of racial discrimination by ACCA members, the Commission for Racial Equality forced ACCA to conduct an ethnicity survey. The form was sent to UK members without any covering letter. ACCA students have been excluded from the survey.
• ACCA is ultra secretive. It is the only major UK -based accountancy body that does not admit its members to its Council meetings. What do they do behind closed doors that they don't want the members to know?
• In 1997, after making lewd public comments (with the full approval of fellow Council members), ACCA (to save face) was eventually persuaded to discipline its Vice-President Jim Waits. To this day, the official magazine has failed to make any disclosures.
• ACCA chief executive Anthea Rose has sought to silence reformers and members of Parliament by using unprofessional tactics. For example she sought to exert pressure on  the employers of Professor Prem Sikka. She also threatened Austin Mitchell, a member of House of Commons.
• ACCA officeholders continue to take their spouses and mistresses to overseas trips without making any disclosures of the costs. Such disclosures are required by FRS8 on Related Party Disclosures. ACCA chief execuive is happy enough to reveal the information to the Department of Trade & Industry and the Privy Council but does not want members to see it. Of course, members always come last.

  That this House condemns the Association of Chartered Certified  Accountants for its failure to function in an open, democratic and  accountable manner by not having any of its officeholders directly  elected by its members, by using a balloting system which has been outlawed for trade unions, for permitting its President to cast 20 to 25  per cent. of all votes thus effectively appointing Council members, by  the deliberate failure of its President to answer questions at the 1999  AGM, by removing reformers from Council and failing to explain the reasons to the AGM, for failure to have any non-white person as an  officeholder even though 50 per cent. of its UK membership is  non-white, by its failure to admit the public to its Council meetings even though it acts as a regulator under the Companies Act 1989  and the Insolvency Act 1986, by the failure to publicise the outcome  of a disciplinary hearing against its Vice-President in its own in-house magazine, by threatening and silencing reformers and  pressurising their employers and by legal threats, and for its failure to disclose the £50,000 per annum spent by its officeholders on taking friends, spouses and partners on world travels, even though the Financial Reporting Standard 8 requires this should be disclosed;  and therefore considers that an ACCA which takes so little account of the public interest is unfit to be a regulatory body and urges the Government to suspend its regulatory powers and launch an independent inquiry into its affairs.