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Ovlašteni revizor · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting (IFRS/MSFI and Croatian GAAP)

  • Map the IFRS/MSFI framework against Croatian GAAP (HSFI) and list at least 15 recognition and measurement differences, noting which standard or law governs each

  • Apply IAS 1 presentation rules by drafting a condensed statement of financial position and statement of profit or loss from a sample trial balance

  • Rehearse IFRS 15 five-step revenue model on three contract scenarios, including variable consideration and contract liabilities

  • Solve at least 20 multiple-choice items on revenue, inventories (IAS 2) and property, plant and equipment (IAS 16), logging every error with the underlying rule

Your checkpoint

A 4-6 page comparative summary table of IFRS vs Croatian GAAP differences plus a scored 20-item practice set with error log

Week 2

Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting (IFRS/MSFI and Croatian GAAP)

  • Work through consolidation mechanics: control assessment under IFRS 10, goodwill computation under IFRS 3, and elimination of intragroup balances

  • Compute impairment under IAS 36 including cash-generating units and reversal rules, and lease liabilities under IFRS 16

  • Explain the treatment of financial instruments under IFRS 9 (classification, expected credit losses) at a level sufficient for exam items

  • Draft the disclosures checklist for a set of annual financial statements covering IAS 1, IFRS 7 and IAS 24

Your checkpoint

A full worked consolidation exercise (parent plus one subsidiary) with goodwill, NCI and eliminations, plus an IFRS 9 impairment calculation

Week 3

Audit Standards, Methodology and Professional Ethics

  • Map the structure of audit standards applicable in Croatia (ISA as adopted, Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants) and state the objective of each phase of an audit

  • Distinguish independence threats (self-interest, self-review, advocacy, familiarity, intimidation) and apply safeguards to five short scenarios

  • Interpret quality management requirements at firm and engagement level, including engagement quality review triggers

  • Analyse documentation requirements and the auditor's responsibilities for fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations

Your checkpoint

A written ethics case analysis of 800-1,000 words covering three scenarios with identified threats, applied safeguards and standard references

Week 4

Audit Planning, Risk Assessment and Internal Controls

  • Perform materiality calculation (overall, performance and clearly trivial thresholds) on a sample entity using benchmark selection and justify the benchmark

  • Build a risk register for a manufacturing client linking inherent risk, significant risk and planned response

  • Design tests of controls for the revenue and purchasing cycles and document the walkthrough logic

  • Evaluate IT general controls and identify control deficiencies with severity ratings

Your checkpoint

A complete audit planning memorandum for a fictional client including materiality computation, risk register and planned responses

Week 5

Audit Evidence, Procedures and Reporting

  • Select appropriate audit procedures (inspection, observation, inquiry, confirmation, recalculation, analytical) for given assertions and justify sampling approach

  • Apply ISA 530 sampling: compute sample size drivers and project misstatement from a sample to the population

  • Draft modified opinions (qualified, adverse, disclaimer) based on three fact patterns, including key audit matters and going concern paragraphs

  • Write an audit report section under ISA 700/701 and check it against required elements

Your checkpoint

Three complete draft auditor's reports for different fact patterns, each with correct opinion type and required sections

Week 6

Tax Law and Tax Compliance

  • Outline Croatian corporate income tax mechanics: tax base adjustments, deductible and non-deductible expenses, and loss carryforward rules

  • Compute VAT liability for a mixed-transaction scenario including input tax deduction limits and place-of-supply rules

  • Identify withholding tax and transfer pricing documentation obligations for related-party transactions

  • Explain the taxpayer's procedural rights and deadlines in a tax audit and the consequences of non-compliance

Your checkpoint

A tax computation worksheet for a sample company covering profit tax and VAT, with a one-page memo on transfer pricing documentation duties

Week 7

Business Law and Corporate Governance & Management Accounting, Finance and Business Analysis

  • Summarise Croatian company law requirements on governance bodies, financial reporting obligations, audit appointment and liability of management and supervisory boards

  • Distinguish business forms and their capital, decision-making and reporting consequences

  • Apply cost-volume-profit, relevant costing and variance analysis to three decision scenarios

  • Compute key financial ratios and interpret them in a short business analysis narrative

Your checkpoint

A governance and legal compliance checklist for a joint-stock company plus a solved management accounting case set

Week 8

Information Technology, Data Analysis and Audit Software & Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting (IFRS/MSFI and Croatian GAAP) & Audit Standards, Methodology and Professional Ethics

  • Use audit data analytics techniques (full-population testing, Benford's law, journal entry testing) on a sample dataset and document conclusions

  • Evaluate controls over a client's accounting information system and identify data integrity risks

  • Complete two full timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them against the pass threshold

  • Revisit the error logs from weeks 1-7 and close every recurring gap with targeted re-study

Your checkpoint

Two completed timed mock exams with score reports, plus a final one-page gap-closure list showing each weak area and how it was resolved

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70% on a 30-item self-test covering Domain 1 (IFRS/MSFI and Croatian GAAP), and produce a consolidation exercise with no arithmetic errors in goodwill or NCI

Week 4: Complete the planning memorandum with materiality correctly derived from a stated benchmark and at least 10 risks each mapped to a planned response; score at least 70% on a 25-item test covering Domains 2 and 3

Week 6: Produce three auditor's reports with the correct opinion type and required sections, and score at least 70% on a 25-item test covering Domains 4 and 5

Week 8: Achieve at least 75% on both timed mock exams and demonstrate that every item missed in more than one domain has been re-studied and re-tested successfully