APC

OVERVIEW OF THE CANDIDATE JOURNEY WITHIN THE APC PROGRAMME

The APC Professional Programme is structured in four phases as follows:

Outline	Description
FOUNDATION PHASE (January – February)     Candidates joining the APC Comprehensive Course start their journey here	Building from your success in the ITC (IAC) or completion of the APC Bridging Course, this phase focuses on developing technical proficiency that would have been developed in the academic programme (CTA) and demonstrated in the ITC assessment within the context of the APC. In the APC, technical proficiency is a foundational skill upon which the professional programme builds pervasive and professional skills on. The objective of the Foundation Phase is to upskill you technically to ensure that you can demonstrate this skill in case-based assessments later in the programme and to enable you to ease in the development of pervasive and professional competencies (e.g., ethical leadership, critical skill, business acumen, decision making, business writing and professional attitudes and values) later in the programme.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE (March – April) Candidates joining the APC Professional & APC Repeaters courses start their journey here	The purpose of the Development Phase of the programme is to understand and develop the pervasive and professional competencies outlined in the competency framework to enable you to demonstrate these competencies in tackling a multi-disciplinary case study during the next phase, the Demonstration Phase of the professional programme. There are sessions scheduled for the development of business acumen, critical thinking, ethical leadership and incorporating technical competence in the APC.
DEMONSTRATION PHASE (May – June)	The purpose of the Demonstration Phase of the programme is to learn how to demonstrate the professional competencies developed in the previous phase using a multi-disciplinary case study in the form of a previous SAICA APC case study. In addition, there are sessions scheduled for the development of effective communication skills and to build your relational acumen (coaching support, working as effective team and mentorship).
ASSESSMENT PHASE (July – November)   Candidates that have deferred their studies exit the programme at the start of this phase. Candidates in the APC Case Study Package start their journey here.	The Assessment Phase, the last phase in the professional programme, focuses on assessing candidates’ professional competence through case study assessments. The professional programme has three case study assessments: 1) baseline assessment, 2) final case study and 3) a supplementary assessment, and you are required to demonstrate competence in the final case study assessment and at least borderline competence in the baseline case study assessment prior to being eligible for the award of the Endunamoo APC certificate. The facilitation of our case study assessments is aligned to the actual APC structure to help you gear to the actual APC. Significant support is provided throughout the phase using reflection packs, feedback session, significant personalised feedback and consultations.

OUR APC PROFESSIONAL COURSES

An overview of the professional courses that constitute the APC Professional Programme is provided below:

	Candidate profile	APC Phases
APC Comprehensive Course Start date January	This course is a foundation course designed for candidates that were not successful in a professional programme or wish to commence their professional development journey earlier (including CIMA & ACCA professionals)	Foundation phase to Assessment phase
APC Professional Course Start date April	This course is designed for candidates that will be sitting for a professional programme and APC for the first time (including CIMA & ACCA professionals)	Development phase to Assessment phase
APC Repeaters Course Start date April	This course is designed for candidates that recently sat for APC and were unsuccessful	Development phase to Assessment phase

CIMA professionals and ACCA professionals who are looking to take advantage of the SAICA-CIMA Pathway Agreement and ICAZ-ACCA Pathway Agreement respectively are encouraged to register for the APC Bridging Course prior to joining an APC Professional Programme. Please see menu for ABC for more details regarding this offering.

To help you understand the structure of the APC courses, we have provided a detailed outline of the activities and key milestones within each phase below.

TRADITIONAL CA ROUTE [CTA-ITC(IAC)-APC]

To be eligible for the award of the Endunamoo APC Certificate, candidates on the traditional route need to at least have completed at least 20 months of their training contract by the first day on which the SAICA/ICAZ/ICAN APC assessment is written and should have successfully completed ITC (IAC). Furthermore, candidates need to demonstrate competence in our case study assessments.

Our APC Professional Programme is demanding and as a result, we have set an additional requirement that candidates need to have successfully completed IAC by 30 April 2025 to enrol or remain enrolled into the professional programme. Consequently, candidates that are expecting to sit for the IAC assessment in June 2025 will not be eligible to register and qualify for an Endunamoo APC Certificate in the 2025 academic year.

CIMA PATHWAY AGREEMENT ROUTE

CIMA professionals and ACCA professionals who are looking to take advantage of the SAICA-CIMA Pathway Agreement and ICAZ-ACCA Pathway Agreement respectively are encouraged to register for the APC Bridging Course prior to joining an APC Professional Programme. Please see menu for ABC for more details regarding this offering. Once completed or if it is not necessary to complete the APC Bridging Course, the following will apply prior to joining our APC Professional Programme.

To be eligible to register for the Endunamoo Africa | APC Professional Programme, candidates need to be in possession of a SAICA/ICAZ Letter confirming that they qualify to register into the APC Professional Programme. To obtain the SAICA Letter, prospective candidates must provide SAICA with:

• Letter of Good Standing from CIMA indicating that s/he gained registration with CIMA by completing the education, examination and practical experience requirements as prescribed by CIMA; AND
• Proof that s/he is a graduate i.e. (i) a holder of at least a Bachelor’s degree which is registered on Level 7 of the NQF, takes a minimum of 3 years to complete and comprises at least 360 credits or (ii) a holder of a foreign academic qualification which is assessed by SAQA as equivalent to a South African Bachelor’s degree which is registered on Level 7 of the NQF, takes a minimum of 3 years to complete and comprises at least 360 credits.

To obtain the SAICA/ICAZ Letter, prospective candidates must contact SAICA/ICAZ and submit the required supporting documents.

To be eligible for the award of the Endunamoo APC Certificate, candidates need to demonstrate competence in our case study assessments at the end of the APC Professional Programme.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Endunamoo has the right to revoke the registration of a candidate or the award of the Endunamoo APC Certificate of a candidate that misrepresented their qualifications, their meeting of stipulated requirements or fail to provide documentary evidence of the above. In the instance of revoking the registration, candidates will be deemed to have deregistered from the APC Professional Programme and general rules with regards to deregistrations will be applicable.

ICAZ candidates are required to make dual registration, one with Endunamoo and the other with ICAZ, here is the ICAZ registration link – https://shorturl.at/PHKwi

As part of that registration, ICAZ requires an amount of USD300 to be paid directly to them. Endunamoo will effect a rebate of USD100 against your tuition fee account upon the presentation of proof of payment of the ICAZ fee. This rebate will be applied on the last instalment of the tuition fee. A request to update the instalment should be submitted through the query tool together with the ICAZ fee proof of payment.

TIMETABLE

A detailed timetable for APC Professional Programme 2025 can be accessed via this link. However, to access the links to the live classes or recorded sessions you would need to have registered a profile on portal, enrolled into the APC Professional Programme and have your profile activated.

CONTACT SESSIONS

The APC Professional Programme will be delivered on a hybrid learning basis – with sessions facilitated via online as well as face to face basis. The split will be determined on the preference of the registered cohorts.

ASSESSMENTS

With regards to our case study assessments, all our case study assessments are facilitated on a venue basis, at venues based in South Africa and Zimbabwe. We apply certain criteria prior to facilitating the venue-based assessments as well as in selecting the venues. We urge every candidate to clarify the criteria used prior to registration by studying the FAQs in detail and, where necessary, contacting us to clarify to avoid disappointment. Please see the ‘Help’ section for further details.

INDIVIDUAL / PRIVATE PAYING CANDIDATES

The tuition fees for the 2025 academic year applicable for individual / private paying candidates are as follows:

	Tuition fees
APC Comprehensive Course	R17 500
APC Professional Course	R16 000
APC Repeaters Course	R16 000

Applicable terms and conditions

• 5% discount on the net tuition fees (i.e. tuition fee after all other applicable discounts) is applicable if the account is settled upon registration.
• A flexible payment option is available provided fees are settled by 31 July 2025. A 25% deposit is required upon registration and thereafter equal monthly instalments are payable to settle the tuition by 1 August 2025.
• Please note that as from 2025, the tuition fee no longer includes support for laptop hire. We will therefore not be able to assist with the hiring of laptops.
• The discount applicable to returning candidates (i.e. candidates previously registered with Endunamoo Africa | APC in the 2024 academic year) is as follows:

	Discount
APC Comprehensive Course	R7 500
APC Professional Course	R6 000
APC Repeaters Course	R6 000
EPC Case Study Package	R1 500

The discount is only processed against your full programme tuition fee account after the registration closing date, i.e. you will be obliged to pay the normal registration amount as well as respective monthly instalments until the end of 30 April 2025 (unless you use the PayFast Link, in which case the payments will be structured to match the payment profile for newly registering candidates).

• An admin fee of R150 is applicable if an incorrect reference or bank account number is used when making payments.
• The tuition fee is not apportioned for joining the programme late – candidates have the priviledge of purchasing access to any of the previously delivered phases at a discount by simply logging a query to our finance team using our Query Tool.
• Candidates have the priviledge of deferring their studies for a period of no more than 2 years at an extra fee of R5 000 per annum. For deferment of the enrolment or deregistrations from the professional programme, please refer to the FAQs.

CORPORATE FUNDED CANDIDATES

The tuition fees for the 2025 academic year applicable for corporate funded candidates are follows:

	Tuition fees
APC Comprehensive Course	R15 500
APC Professional Course	R14 000
APC Repeaters Course	R14 000

Applicable terms and conditions

• A minimum of 10 candidates is required to quality for a corporate pricing.
• Corporate invoices are not available directly from our website and these are manually issued by our finance team in line with our arrangement with your firm.
• Corporate invoices will be issued by 31 May 2025 after the registration has closed and will be payable 30 June 2025 to ensure that the discount is not forfeited.
• Corporate invoices that are not settled by 30 June 2025 will result in the obligation to pay the registration fee and instalment due falling on the candidates. The candidate will be obliged for the full tuition fee applicable to individual / private paying candidates.

KEY REGISTRATION DATES

The registration closing date for the APC Professional Programme:

	Closing date
APC Comprehensive Course	31 January 2025
APC Professional Course	30 April 2025
APC Repeaters Course	30 April 2025

Registration into the APC Professional Programme needs to be confirmed via a payment of a registration fee within 14 days following the registration date – after this date, all pending registrations will be cancelled, and it will not be possible to reinstate any cancelled registration. No late registrations shall be accepted. Please click here to register.

THUTHUKA

Information on the Thuthuka funding for the APC Professional Programme for 2025 is currently not available. Please be on the lookout for the application process in this section.