CA Inter Advanced Accounting study plan

Map the Advanced Accounting syllabus into a topic checklist covering company final accounts, amalgamation, consolidation, branch accounts, partnership reconstitution, and accounting standards, and rate each topic as strong, weak, or unknown after a 30-question diagnostic

Build a one-page formula and treatment sheet for AS 10 Property Plant and Equipment, AS 16 Borrowing Costs, and AS 19 Leases, writing the recognition, measurement, and disclosure rules in your own words

Solve 12 computational problems on depreciation, revaluation, and borrowing cost capitalisation, timing each attempt and logging errors by cause rather than by topic

Draft a personal error log template with columns for question type, root cause, correction, and revisit date, and populate it with week 1 attempts

Prepare full company final accounts from a trial balance including managerial remuneration, dividend, and transfer to reserves, under both old and new Companies Act provisions, without referring to a solved example

Compute and present earnings per share under AS 20 for a case involving bonus issue and rights issue adjustments, showing the restated comparative figures

Reconcile book and bank balances through a branch accounts problem using the debtor system and the stock and debtors system, and explain in writing why the two methods give the same profit

Attempt 20 multiple choice questions on accounting standards under a 30-minute timer and rework every incorrect option until you can justify why the distractors fail

Work through amalgamation in the nature of merger and in the nature of purchase, applying the pooling of interests and purchase methods respectively, and state the conditions that decide which method applies

Prepare the balance sheet after amalgamation including goodwill or capital reserve computation, adjustment of inter-company holdings, and elimination of intra-group balances

Solve three problems on absorption and external reconstruction, distinguishing the accounting entries for each

Summarise in 300 words how AS 14 treatment differs from Ind AS 103, noting where the exam is likely to test the distinction

Consolidate a parent and one subsidiary from separate balance sheets, computing capital reserve or goodwill on acquisition, minority interest, and post-acquisition profits

Handle a two-tier holding structure and adjust for unrealised profit on intra-group stock transfers

Prepare a consolidated profit and loss account and reconcile group reserves to the parent's standalone figures

Complete two full consolidation problems under exam timing of 45 minutes each and compare your workings line by line with the model answer

Account for partnership admission, retirement, and death including revaluation, goodwill adjustment through capital accounts, and settlement of the retiring partner's dues

Solve a piecemeal distribution problem applying the maximum loss method and the surplus capital method, and show that both arrive at the same final balances

Prepare a sale or conversion of partnership to a company, recording realisation, distribution, and the issue of shares and debentures to partners

Write out the journal entries for goodwill under AS 26 and AS 14 style treatments and identify where the exam typically tests the difference

Prepare branch accounts under the invoice price method, including loading adjustment and stock reserve computation

Complete a foreign branch translation problem, converting trial balance items at appropriate rates and reporting the exchange difference

Reconstruct a missing figure set: derive purchases, sales, or closing stock from incomplete records using the statement of affairs and total debtors methods

Review the error log from weeks 1 to 5 and re-solve every question logged as a conceptual error without looking at the previous solution

Take one full-length mock paper under strict exam conditions, 3 hours, no notes, and record section-wise time allocation

Analyse the mock by marking each lost mark as knowledge gap, presentation error, calculation slip, or time pressure, and rank the causes by marks lost

Re-solve the three worst sections of the mock from scratch and write a short note on what presentation change would have earned marks

Drill 40 rapid-fire questions on accounting standards and disclosure requirements to improve recall speed

Fix the top three causes of lost marks identified in week 7 by redoing targeted problem sets and rewriting weak workings in clean exam format

Take a second full-length mock and aim to reduce the marks lost to presentation and calculation errors by at least half

Condense the entire syllabus into a 10-page revision sheet of treatments, formats, and standard references you can review in under an hour

Practise writing final accounts and consolidation workings in the exact format and order required by the exam to build speed on presentation