Cheaters fed exam questions to chatbots, so the world's biggest accountancy body is ditching online exams
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Turns out the bar for passing accounting exams is now a phone camera and a chatbot.
What happened
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) will stop offering online exams from March 2026 because AI-powered cheating is outpacing its safeguards. CEO Helen Brand told the Financial Times that cheating systems are outpacing safeguards. One student said a friend photographed exam questions and fed them into an AI chatbot.