FAQs

Find answers to commonly asked questions about ISCA Digital Badges and CAW Network Member logo.

General

Digital Badges are secure, web-enabled credentials containing verified information about your membership milestones professional achievements.

Badges provide employers and peers concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn your credential and what you’re now capable of. Unlike paper certificates which are not shareable on social networks, digital badges are more visible and shareable online, making them more engaging. Every credential is backed by metadata that details the qualifications and certifications and provides a proof of learning. Once you earn a digital badge from ISCA, it can easily be shared on online and social media networks, resumes, name cards and email signatures.
It’s a symbol and the words ‘Chartered Accountant Worldwide Network Member’ for you to use in relevant business situations as you see fit. It isn’t a qualification or a designation, it’s simply away to show that you are a Chartered Accountant who is part of a wider global network. 
Credly is the end-to-end solution for issuing and managing digital credentials. The Acclaim platform is part of the Credly suite of digital credential products and works with credible organisations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide. 
It’s the combined strength of 750,000 Chartered Accountants and over 1 million students from 14 Chartered Accountancy institutes in 190 countries. Together we demonstrate our global commitment to the highest ethical, technical and professional standards.
ISCA has partnered Credly to translate the knowledge and skills that you have demonstrated into a badge, issued and managed through Credly's Acclaim Platform. The technology on the Acclaim Platform is based on the Open Badge Standards maintained by IMS Global. This enables you to manage, share and verify your competencies digitally. 
ISCA is a member of Chartered Accountants Worldwide, a global family that brings together the members of leading insttitutes to create a community of over 1.8 million Chartered Accountants and student in more than 190 countries. As a Chartered Accountants of Singapore, you are also a Chartered Accountants Worldwide Network Member.
Visit the Acclaim support website for additional details. 
Visit Chartered Accountants Worldwide (CAW) website for more information.

Eligibility criteria for digital badges and CAW Network Member logo

You will automatically earn the 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years of Membership Milestone badges when you reach milestone decades.
It’s for members who are Chartered Accountant of Singapore. 
The Professional accomplishments acquired via CPE certification courses and Specialisation Pathway programmes are listed below. These badges will be issued from 2020.

 

Specialisation Pathways 

  1. ISCA Financial Forensic Professional (FFP) Credential
  2. ISCA Financial Forensic Accounting (FFA) Qualification
  • Module 1: Forensic Accounting and Investigation
  • Module 2: Digital Forensics
  • Module 3: Financial Crime
  • Module 4: Professional Requirements
  1. ISCA Infrastructure and Project Finance Professional (IPFP) Credential
  2. ISCA Infrastructure and Project Finance Qualification (IPFQ)
  • Module 1: Project Lifecycle
  • Module 2: Project Risks and Financing
  • Module 3: Contracts and Modelling

CPE Certification Courses

  1. PAW - Audit Working Paper 1 & 2
  2. PAW – Supervisory and Review
  3. Practical Accounting Essential
  4. Business Analytics and Reporting
  5. Advanced Business Analytics and Reporting
  6. Professional Risk Management Programme
  7. ISCA-SUSS Business Analytics Certification Programme

Accepting and claiming/using digital badges and CAW Network member logo

You will receive an email from ISCA with instructions to access your badge or member logo.
Accepting, storing and sharing ISCA Digital Badges are free for ISCA Digital Badge earners. Likewise for using CAW Network member logo which are free for ISCA members who are Chartered Accountants. 
Please contact Member Services Centre at membership@isca.org.sg for support.
We will resend the badge notification email for the rejected badge.  
You do not have to claim the digital badge; however, we do encourage you to adopt the use of digital badges as they are becoming the standard for recognising and publicising professional development.
 If you do not want your digital badge, simply ignore the email from ISCA on claiming your badge. 
Please contact Members Services Centre at membership@isca.org.sg.
You can easily configure your privacy settings in the Acclaim Platform. You are in control of the information about yourself that is made public.
Although the badges are digital image files, they are uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly's Acclaim Platform. This link to verified data makes them more reliable and secure than paper-based certificate. It also eliminates the possibility of anyone claiming your credential and your associated identity.
You can share your badge directly from the Acclaim Platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.
Members who have resigned, removed or suspended from the membership can no longer use the CA (Singapore), Associate (ISCA), Affiliate (ISCA) or AAT (Singapore) designations or Membership Milestone Badges awarded by ISCA.

You can refer to the video guide here

or the PDF guide here: Step-by-step guide on how to claim the badge