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KASNEB CA24 study plan

KASNEB CA24 · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Accountancy

  • Map the Accountancy syllabus into a one-page topic checklist with weighting per topic

  • Define and compute the accounting equation and double-entry rules from memory for 20 practice transactions

  • Prepare a trial balance from a list of 15 ledger balances without reference notes

  • Set up a personal error log template to record every mistake made during practice

Your checkpoint

A completed one-page Accountancy topic checklist plus a 20-transaction double-entry worksheet with a balancing trial balance

Week 2

Accountancy

  • Prepare final accounts (trading, profit and loss, and statement of financial position) for two sole-trader scenarios under time pressure

  • Reconcile a bank statement against a cash book and explain every reconciling item

  • Post adjustments for accruals, prepayments, depreciation, and bad debts into a worksheet

  • Explain the qualitative characteristics and accounting concepts applied in each adjustment made

Your checkpoint

Two full sets of final accounts with workings, each completed in under 45 minutes, plus a bank reconciliation statement

Week 3

Finance

  • Build a formula sheet covering time value of money, valuation, and risk-return measures, deriving each formula once from first principles

  • Compute present and future values for annuities and perpetuities across 15 drill problems

  • Calculate cost of capital components (debt, equity, and retained earnings) and a weighted average for two capital structures

  • Interpret a company's basic financial ratios to assess liquidity, gearing, and profitability

Your checkpoint

A hand-derived formula sheet plus a 15-problem time-value-of-money drill set with a scored answer key

Week 4

Finance

  • Appraise two investment proposals using payback, accounting rate of return, NPV, and IRR, and justify the ranking

  • Evaluate working capital requirements for a scenario and recommend financing choices with reasons

  • Explain the relationship between risk and return and apply it to a simple portfolio decision

  • Review all weeks 1-4 error logs and re-solve the five most frequently missed problem types

Your checkpoint

A written investment appraisal report for two proposals with a justified recommendation, plus a completed week-4 cumulative self-test scoring at least 70%

Week 5

Credit

  • Assess a loan applicant using the standard credit appraisal criteria and produce a reasoned recommendation

  • Compute key credit ratios (debt service coverage, gearing, and liquidity) from a set of financial statements

  • Distinguish the types, features, and risks of the main collateral and security instruments

  • Outline the credit lifecycle from application through monitoring and recovery, noting control points at each stage

Your checkpoint

A one-page credit appraisal memo recommending approval or decline for a hypothetical applicant, supported by computed ratios

Week 6

Credit

  • Classify non-performing loans and apply provisioning logic to a small loan book

  • Identify early-warning signs of default and draft a monitoring action plan for a distressed account

  • Explain the roles of credit reference and credit scoring in lending decisions

  • Solve 10 short credit-calculation and credit-terms problems under timed conditions

Your checkpoint

A loan-book classification and provisioning schedule plus a 10-question timed credit drill scoring at least 70%

Week 7

Governance and Management

  • Compare the main governance theories and apply them to a boardroom scenario

  • Distinguish the roles of the board, board committees, and management, and draft a delegation framework

  • Explain the principles of corporate governance codes and how compliance is evidenced

  • Analyse a governance failure case and identify the control weaknesses that allowed it

Your checkpoint

A governance case analysis of one page identifying at least five weaknesses with matching recommendations, plus a drafted board delegation framework

Week 8

Accountancy & Finance & Credit & Governance and Management

  • Sit two full-length mixed-domain mock exams under timed conditions and mark them against the answer keys

  • Re-teach the five weakest topics from the mocks using the error logs and condensed notes

  • Consolidate all four domains into a single revision sheet of key formulas, definitions, and frameworks

  • Build a final-week revision timetable that allocates remaining hours to the lowest-scoring areas

Your checkpoint

Two marked mock exams with a score breakdown by domain and a consolidated one-page-per-domain revision pack

Milestones

Week 2: Complete two full sets of final accounts and one bank reconciliation unaided, scoring at least 65% on a self-marked Accountancy test

Week 4: Score at least 70% on the cumulative weeks 1-4 self-test, with a written investment appraisal report completed

Week 6: Produce a credit appraisal memo and provisioning schedule, and score at least 70% on the timed credit drill

Week 8: Score at least 70% overall on both mixed-domain mock exams with no domain below 60%, and submit the consolidated revision pack