Become a Fellow Financial Accountant FFA FIPA

Membership at the grade of Fellow Financial Accountant means you can use the designatory letters FFA FIPA after your name and refer to yourself as a Financial Accountant.

FFA FIPA is the Institute’s highest membership grade. You will have been working in a senior role in the accountancy profession for no fewer than 10 years, the last five at a senior level in accountancy. 

You can only become a Fellow of the Institute by: 

  • having been a member for seven consecutive years at AFA MIPA level;  
  • continued to meet the Institute's CPD requirements; and  
  • being able to demonstrate relevant work experience, or equivalent from another recognised professional accountancy body. 

Benefits

Among the many benefits you can expect are:

  • Refer to yourself as Fellow Financial Accountant
  • Use the designatory letters FFA FIPA after your name
  • Dual membership of the Institute of Public Accountants of Australia
  • IFA and IPA membership certificates
  • Free IFA UK and international webinars and regional networking meetings to learn and network with other accountants and potential employers 
  • A range of relevant CPD workshops and webinars
  • Access to a hard copy of Financial Accountant our member magazine, six times a year
  • A free weekly enewsletter drawing together the latest news, articles and opinion on accounting, finance and business from Financial Accountant digital our online content platform
  • A free quarterly highlights email
  • Exclusive offers from our carefully chosen strategic partners  
  • Technical resources covering business and AML
  • Early bird discounts on annual conference tickets 

Practising certificate

Members at FFA FIPA grade based in the UK offering services to the public for reward will be required to apply for an IFA practising certificate. You will need to meet the IFA practising certificate eligibility criteria and are expected to gain the appropriate technical theory.