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ITAA Toelatingsexamen study plan

ITAA Toelatingsexamen · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Accountancy

  • Map the full accountancy syllabus into a one-page checklist and mark each item as known, shaky, or unknown

  • Reconstruct the accounting cycle from source document to trial balance without notes, then compare against a reference

  • Solve 20 journal-entry exercises covering accruals, prepayments, and depreciation

  • Build a personal error log template with columns for error type, cause, and corrective rule

Your checkpoint

A completed syllabus checklist plus a 20-item journal-entry set scored and annotated with at least 10 logged errors

Week 2

Accountancy

  • Prepare a full set of annual financial statements from a given trial balance, including adjustments

  • Explain and apply the distinction between profit and cash flow by drafting a simple cash flow statement

  • Compute and interpret at least six key ratios and state what each reveals about a business

  • Identify and correct five deliberately misstated financial statements

Your checkpoint

One complete financial-statement package (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow) with ratio analysis and a written correction note per misstatement

Week 3

Accountancy

  • Apply double-entry reasoning to complex transactions involving VAT, discounts, and returns

  • Reconcile a bank account and a supplier ledger and explain each reconciling item

  • Distinguish between provisions, contingent liabilities, and accruals and classify ten given cases

  • Draft adjusting and closing entries for a year-end scenario

Your checkpoint

A reconciliation file containing one bank reconciliation, one supplier reconciliation, and a classified list of ten liability cases with journal entries

Week 4

Accountancy

  • Complete a timed mixed accountancy set under exam conditions without reference material

  • Review every wrong answer and write the underlying rule that was missed

  • Explain the treatment of inventory valuation and depreciation methods in your own words

  • Rank remaining weak topics and build a targeted repair list

Your checkpoint

A timed mock score report with a written rule for each error and a prioritized repair list of no more than eight items

Week 5

Tax advisory

  • Map the tax advisory syllabus into a checklist and mark confidence levels per item

  • Outline the structure of income tax for individuals and businesses and locate the relevant concepts in your own summary

  • Apply the distinction between gross and net income and between deductible and non-deductible expenses to 15 cases

  • Build a glossary of at least 30 tax terms with a one-line definition each

Your checkpoint

A completed tax syllabus checklist plus a 30-term glossary and a scored 15-case deductibility exercise

Week 6

Tax advisory

  • Compute taxable income for a sample individual and a sample business, showing each step

  • Explain how VAT works across the supply chain and calculate output, input, and payable VAT for ten transactions

  • Distinguish between the main business forms and state the tax consequences of each

  • Analyze five short client scenarios and recommend a tax position with justification

Your checkpoint

Two worked taxable-income computations plus a VAT calculation sheet and five written advisory recommendations

Week 7

Tax advisory & Accountancy

  • Connect accountancy outputs to tax declarations by deriving taxable income from financial statements

  • Complete a timed mixed tax set and a shorter accountancy refresher set in the same session

  • Identify where accounting treatment and tax treatment diverge and document each divergence

  • Practice writing concise advisory answers under a time limit

Your checkpoint

A bridge document linking one financial statement to its tax declaration, plus two timed set scores and three timed written advisory answers

Week 8

Accountancy & Tax advisory

  • Sit two full-length timed mock exams covering both domains and record section-level scores

  • Repair the three weakest topics per domain using targeted drills

  • Recite core rules and definitions from memory in a rapid self-quiz

  • Finalize a one-page exam-day strategy covering time allocation and question order

Your checkpoint

Two complete mock exam score sheets with a before-and-after comparison on the weakest topics and a finished one-page exam-day strategy

Milestones

Week 2: Produce a complete set of financial statements from a trial balance with all adjustments correct on a second attempt, and score at least 70% on a 20-item journal-entry quiz

Week 4: Score at least 65% on a timed accountancy mock and show that every error has a written corrective rule attached

Week 6: Correctly compute taxable income for both a sample individual and a sample business and score at least 70% on the VAT calculation sheet

Week 8: Score at least 75% on both full-length mocks and demonstrate measurable improvement on every topic listed in the week-4 repair list