ACCA Exam Dates 2026
ACCA runs four exam sittings a year. Every date below comes directly from ACCA's own Important Dates page rather than a third-party estimate. Exam-date roundups vary wildly between sites, so we've linked our source and the date we checked it at the bottom of this page.
- Four sittings a year: March, June, September, December
- March and September offer Applied Skills and Strategic Professional exams (limited variants) only
- June and December offer all exam variants, except Corporate and Business Law (LW), which is always on-demand
- BT, MA, FA and most LW variants are on-demand computer-based exams. Book any time, no fixed sitting required.
- All entry deadlines are 23:59 UK time on the listed date
Right now: standard entry for the September 2026 sitting closed on 27 July. Late entry is still open until 3 August 2026 (23:59 UK time), at a higher fee. After that the next entry window is December 2026, which ACCA has not yet dated.
2026 sittings
| Session | Status | Exams take place | Standard entry deadline | Late entry deadline | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Completed | 2–6 March | 26 January 2026 | 2 February 2026 | 11 April 2026 |
| June 2026 | Completed | 1–5 June | 16 April 2026 | No late entry | 13 July 2026 |
| September 2026 | Late entry open | 7–11 September | 27 July 2026 (passed) | 3 August 2026 | 19 October 2026 |
| December 2026 | Awaiting ACCA | Not yet published by ACCA | — | — | — |
December 2026 is blank because ACCA hasn't published it yet, as of when this page was last checked. Third-party "ACCA exam dates" articles showing confident December 2026 dates are estimating from past years' patterns, and those estimates disagree with each other by anywhere from a few days to two weeks. We'll update this page once ACCA confirms it rather than publish a plausible-looking guess.
On December 2026: as of 29 July 2026, ACCA's own Important Dates page lists only the March, June and September 2026 sessions. There is no December section at all, so no entry deadline, exam week or results date has been published. Several third-party sites do quote December dates, but they contradict each other, with exam weeks given variously as 1 to 5 December and 7 to 11 December, and results as 11 or 18 January 2027. None of that comes from ACCA. We would rather leave this blank than publish a guess, and we will fill it in as soon as ACCA does.
Which papers need a fixed sitting?
On-demand (any day, no sitting needed)
Business and Technology (BT), Management Accounting (MA), Financial Accounting (FA), and most variants of Corporate and Business Law (LW) are computer-based exams you can book at a licensed centre whenever you're ready. There's no entry deadline to track for these. Book, sit, and get your result on the same rhythm as any other CBE.
Fixed sittings (March, June, September, December)
The Applied Skills papers (Performance Management, Taxation, Financial Reporting, Audit and Assurance and Financial Management), plus all Strategic Professional papers, are tied to one of the four sittings above. March and September only offer limited variants at these levels; June and December offer the full set.
September 2026: the dates after the exam
Most timetables stop at results day. These are the deadlines that matter afterwards, all from ACCA's own calendar and all 23:59 UK time.
| What | Date |
|---|---|
| Mandatory system test (remotely invigilated exams only) | From 30 August, before check-in |
| Exam attendance dockets available in myACCA | About three weeks after 27 July |
| Centre complaints close | 15 September 2026 |
| Mitigating circumstances close | 22 September 2026 |
| Exam cancellation requests close | 23 September 2026 |
| Results released | 19 October 2026 |
| Administrative review closes | 28 October 2026 |
| Appeals (admin review, mitigating circumstances, nullified result) close | 18 November 2026 |
| Appeal outcomes released | 25 November 2026 |
Two details worth noting. To get results by text you must opt in through myACCA at least seven days before release. And the exam cycle for this session runs 1 July to 30 September 2026.
Planning around the deadlines
Standard vs late entry
Booking by the standard entry deadline gets you the lowest fee. Miss it and you can still book up to the late deadline at a higher fee, where a session offers late entry at all. June 2026 doesn't. June sittings have historically had no late-entry window, so treat the standard deadline as a hard stop if you're aiming for June.
Results timing
Results are released roughly five to six weeks after the exams take place, always at 00:00 UK time. If you want a text alert rather than checking myACCA at midnight, opt in through myACCA at least seven days before results day. It's a one-off setting that applies to all future sittings once turned on.
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Sourced directly from ACCA's official Important Dates page (accaglobal.com/gb/en/student/getting-started/important-dates.html), re-checked 29 July 2026, when that page carried a last-modified date of 3 June 2026 and listed only the March, June and September 2026 sessions. ACCA can and does update deadlines and timetables, so always confirm current dates in myACCA or on accaglobal.com before booking. GoQualified is not affiliated with ACCA.