"The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which has almost 260,000 members, has said that from March it will stop allowing students to take online exams in all but exceptional circumstances. We're seeing the sophistication of [cheating] systems outpacing what can be put in, [in] terms of safeguards, Helen Brand, the chief executive of the ACCA, said in an interview with the Financial Times. Remote testing was introduced during the Covid pandemic to allow students to continue to be able to qualify at a time when lockdowns prevented in-person exam assessment."
"In 2022, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the UK's accounting and auditing industry regulator, said that cheating in professional exams was a live issue at Britain's biggest companies. A number of multimillion-dollar fines have been issued to large auditing and accounting companies around the world over cheating scandals in tests. In 2022, EY agreed to pay a record $100m (74m) to US regulators over claims that dozens of its employees cheated on an ethics exam and that the company then misled investigators."
"The ACCA said it has now concluded that online tests have become too difficult to police, given the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) tools available to students. Brand said the ACCA, which has more than half a million students, had worked intensively to combat cheating but people who want to do bad things are probably working at a quicker pace. She added that the rapid rise of technology, led by AI tools, had pushed the issue of cheating to a tipping point."
The ACCA will stop allowing students to take online exams from March except in exceptional circumstances. Remote testing was introduced during the Covid pandemic to allow students to qualify when lockdowns prevented in-person exams. The ACCA concluded online tests have become too difficult to police because of rising artificial intelligence tools available to students. The Financial Reporting Council found cheating in professional exams was a live issue at major companies. Multimillion-dollar fines have been issued to auditing firms; EY paid $100m over employees cheating on an ethics exam. The ACCA has more than half a million students and had worked intensively to combat cheating.
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