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KASNEB CPA Advanced study plan

KASNEB CPA Advanced · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Financial Reporting and Analysis

  • Compute consolidated revenue, goodwill and non-controlling interest for a group with one subsidiary and one associate, showing all workings

  • Prepare a statement of cash flows under IAS 7 using both the direct and indirect methods from a given trial balance

  • Apply the IFRS 15 five-step model to three contract scenarios (multiple performance obligations, variable consideration, over-time recognition) and record the journal entries

  • Classify and measure financial assets and liabilities under IFRS 9 into amortised cost, FVOCI and FVTPL, and compute the expected credit loss allowance

  • Interpret a set of published financial statements using at least six ratio, trend and common-size techniques and write three conclusions on performance

Your checkpoint

A 20-page handwritten standards-and-journal-entry summary plus 15 self-marked consolidation and IFRS 15 questions scored at 70% or better, with an error log of every miss

Week 2

Financial Reporting and Analysis & Advanced Auditing and Assurance

  • Quantify the profit and gearing effect of four adjustments: IFRS 16 leases, IAS 36 impairment, IAS 37 provisions and IFRS 3 fair value adjustments

  • Prepare a complete consolidated statement of financial position including intra-group eliminations, unrealised profit and fair value depreciation

  • Draft an audit plan for a listed manufacturing client covering materiality, significant risks and planned responses under ISA 315 and ISA 330

  • Map the five financial statement assertions to a specific audit procedure for each of revenue, receivables and inventory

Your checkpoint

One full exam-standard consolidation question completed in 45 minutes and marked, plus a one-page audit planning memo with a documented materiality calculation

Week 3

Advanced Auditing and Assurance

  • Judge whether the audit evidence in five given scenarios is sufficient and appropriate under ISA 500 and ISA 580, and state the additional work required

  • Select the correct audit opinion (unmodified, qualified, adverse, disclaimer) for eight fact patterns and cite the governing ISA 700 or ISA 705 paragraph

  • Design tests of controls and substantive procedures for the revenue, inventory and payroll cycles of a medium-sized company

  • Explain and apply the auditor's duties on fraud, going concern and non-compliance with laws and regulations under ISA 240, ISA 570 and ISA 250

  • Distinguish the auditor's and those charged with governance's responsibilities for quality management under ISQM 1 and ISA 220

Your checkpoint

An eight-row opinion decision table with justified ISA citations plus one full audit case study answered under timed conditions and self-marked against the marking grid

Week 4

Taxation

  • Compute chargeable income and tax payable for individuals, applying allowable deductions, personal and insurance relief and PAYE credits

  • Compute corporation tax for a resident company after capital allowances, balancing charges and the correct order of loss relief

  • Apply VAT registration thresholds, output and input tax treatment, and complete a correct VAT return for a mixed supplies business

  • Distinguish capital from revenue expenditure and compute instalment tax and the relevant due dates

  • Evaluate three tax planning arrangements against the interest restriction and thin capitalisation rules and state the risk of each

Your checkpoint

A tax computation pack of five individual, five corporate and two VAT questions with every error logged and reworked to a 75% pass standard

Week 5

Taxation & Strategic Management Accounting

  • Compute deferred tax under IAS 12 for temporary differences arising from capital allowances, revaluations and provisions

  • Apply cost-volume-profit analysis to compute break-even, margin of safety and target profit for a multi-product firm with a sales mix constraint

  • Prepare a flexible budget and compute price, efficiency, mix and volume variances, then reconcile budgeted to actual profit

  • Interpret the variance report in a written memo ranking the three variances needing management action

Your checkpoint

One integrated case answered end-to-end (tax computation, flexible budget, variance reconciliation and a 300-word management commentary) and self-marked

Week 6

Strategic Management Accounting

  • Evaluate investment appraisal using NPV, IRR, payback and discounted payback, including tax, inflation and working capital adjustments

  • Construct a balanced scorecard with four perspectives and at least eight quantified KPIs for a service organisation

  • Compute divisional performance using ROI, residual income and EVA and explain the behavioural consequences of each measure

  • Apply activity-based costing and throughput accounting to a product-mix decision and compare the resulting ranking with absorption costing

Your checkpoint

A ten-question timed problem set on CVP, variances, investment appraisal and divisional performance, completed in 90 minutes and scored at 70% or better

Week 7

Corporate Finance and Ethics

  • Compute the weighted average cost of capital, deriving cost of equity through CAPM and the dividend growth model and adjusting for tax

  • Appraise a project using adjusted present value, sensitivity analysis and capital rationing, and recommend a course of action

  • Evaluate capital structure and dividend policy theories against the practical payout and financing decisions of a named company profile

  • Resolve four ethical dilemmas using a structured decision framework and cite the relevant professional code principles and threats

Your checkpoint

A two-page investment appraisal memo containing a full WACC build-up and recommendation, plus four written ethical dilemma resolutions of 250 words each

Week 8

Financial Reporting and Analysis & Advanced Auditing and Assurance & Taxation & Strategic Management Accounting & Corporate Finance and Ethics

  • Sit two full timed mock papers under exam conditions and mark them strictly against the published marking criteria

  • Re-work every item in the cumulative error log from weeks 1 to 7 until each is solved unaided

  • Recall and apply the thirty highest-yield IFRS, ISA and tax rules in a rapid-fire self-test

  • Condense each domain into a one-page final revision sheet of formulas, treatments and exam triggers

Your checkpoint

Two completed mock papers scored at 65% or better and a five-page final revision sheet covering all five domains

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 65% on a 20-question Domain 1 diagnostic and reproduce the materiality calculation and the consolidation pro-forma from memory without notes

Week 4: Pass a closed-book 40-mark mock spanning Domains 1 to 3 at 60% or better, with a written error log containing at least 15 diagnosed weaknesses

Week 6: Score 70% or better on a timed 30-mark mixed paper for Domains 4 and 5, and demonstrate a full WACC and NPV calculation unaided

Week 8: Complete two full mock papers across all five domains at 65% or better, and confirm that every item on the cumulative error log has been closed out