Myanmar CPA Part II study materials
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Myanmar CPA Part II study plan

Myanmar CPA Part II · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Financial Accounting and Reporting

  • Apply the MFRS/IFRS-aligned conceptual framework and Myanmar Financial Reporting Standards recognition and measurement rules to revenue, inventory and property, plant and equipment scenarios

  • Prepare a full set of financial statements (statement of financial position, statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity, statement of cash flows, notes) from a trial balance within time pressure

  • Compute depreciation, impairment, revaluation surplus and disposal gains or losses, and record the related journal entries

  • Distinguish adjusting from non-adjusting events after the reporting period and draft the required disclosures

Your checkpoint

A closed-book 3-hour mock exam answer booklet covering one full financial statement preparation question and two MFRS application questions, self-marked against the standards with an error log

Week 2

Financial Accounting and Reporting & Advanced Financial Reporting and Consolidated Financial Statements

  • Apply MFRS 15 five-step revenue model to multi-element contracts, variable consideration and contract costs

  • Account for leases under MFRS 16 from both lessee and lessor perspectives, including remeasurement and sale-and-leaseback

  • Prepare consolidation workings for a simple group: cost of investment versus fair value of net assets, goodwill, non-controlling interest and pre- and post-acquisition reserves

  • Eliminate intra-group sales, unrealised profit in inventory and intra-group receivables and payables

Your checkpoint

A consolidated statement of financial position and consolidated statement of profit or loss for a parent with one subsidiary, with all workings shown and a one-page note explaining each elimination

Week 3

Advanced Financial Reporting and Consolidated Financial Statements & Financial Accounting and Reporting

  • Consolidate a group with a subsidiary acquired mid-year and a partially owned subsidiary, allocating profit between owners of the parent and non-controlling interest

  • Apply equity accounting to an associate and explain the difference from proportional consolidation

  • Account for step acquisitions, disposals of subsidiaries and changes in ownership without loss of control

  • Prepare the consolidated statement of cash flows including acquisition and disposal adjustments

Your checkpoint

A written model answer to a multi-part consolidation case (mid-year acquisition plus associate) scored against a marking rubric of at least 20 marks, with a list of every mark lost and why

Week 4

Management Accounting and Performance Management

  • Compute cost of goods manufactured, cost of production and cost of goods sold for a manufacturer and reconcile the results

  • Apply process costing with normal loss, abnormal loss and equivalent units under both weighted-average and FIFO methods

  • Prepare a flexible budget, compute all material, labour and overhead variances, and explain possible causes of each variance

  • Evaluate a decision using relevant costing, limiting factors and make-or-buy or accept-or-reject analysis, and justify the recommendation

Your checkpoint

A variance analysis and relevant-costing case pack with a written recommendation memo of 300-400 words that a non-accountant manager could act on

Week 5

Auditing and Assurance

  • Apply the International Standards on Auditing planning cycle: risk assessment, materiality determination, and design of further audit procedures responsive to assessed risks

  • Distinguish tests of controls from substantive procedures and select the appropriate procedure for given assertions

  • Evaluate audit evidence for sufficiency and appropriateness, and identify the effect of a misstatement on the audit opinion

  • Draft the correct opinion wording for unmodified, qualified, adverse and disclaimer situations, and identify going-concern and subsequent-event implications

Your checkpoint

A complete audit file outline for a fictional manufacturing client: risk register, materiality calculation, planned procedures mapped to assertions, and a drafted audit report with the correct opinion type

Week 6

Taxation (Myanmar Income Tax and Commercial Tax)

  • Compute Myanmar income tax liability for an individual, applying residency rules, allowable deductions, reliefs and the current progressive rate schedule

  • Compute corporate income tax for a company, including capital allowances, disallowed expenses and loss carry-forward rules

  • Determine Commercial Tax treatment (sales, service, or specific goods) and compute output tax, input tax credit and tax payable for a trading business

  • Identify the filing, payment and withholding obligations and deadlines for income tax and Commercial Tax

Your checkpoint

A tax computation workbook with three fully worked scenarios (individual, company, Commercial Tax) plus a one-page deadline and filing checklist

Week 7

Business Law and Corporate Governance & Finance and Financial Management

  • Apply Myanmar Companies Law requirements on incorporation, share capital, directors' duties, meetings and financial reporting to short scenario questions

  • Distinguish the roles of the board, audit committee and external auditor, and evaluate a corporate governance failure against a recognised code

  • Compute and interpret key ratios, working capital, the operating cycle and gearing to assess a company's liquidity and solvency

  • Evaluate an investment appraisal using NPV, IRR and payback, including sensitivity analysis on a single variable

Your checkpoint

A 10-answer short-response practice set (6 law and governance, 4 finance) written under a 90-minute timer, with model answers and a self-scored percentage

Week 8

Professional Ethics and Information Technology & Financial Accounting and Reporting & Advanced Financial Reporting and Consolidated Financial Statements

  • Apply the fundamental principles and threats-and-safeguards framework to ethical dilemmas involving independence, confidentiality and conflicts of interest

  • Identify controls and risks in computerised accounting information systems, including access control, data integrity and audit trail

  • Revise the three highest-weight domains through spaced retrieval, targeting only items flagged in earlier error logs

  • Complete two full timed mock exams and convert each result into a prioritised final-week revision list

Your checkpoint

Two completed timed mock exams with scores, plus a final one-page revision sheet listing the ten weakest topics and the specific action for each before exam day

Milestones

Week 2: Produce a consolidated statement of financial position for a parent and one subsidiary, with goodwill and non-controlling interest correct, in under 45 minutes without notes

Week 4: Score at least 60% on a self-marked mixed set of 20 questions drawn from Domains 1, 2 and 3, and show zero repeated errors from the week 1-2 error log

Week 6: Complete the individual and corporate income tax computations with correct tax payable figures and cite the applicable rule for each adjustment

Week 8: Average at least 65% across the two full mock exams, with no domain scoring below 50%, and have a written final-week action for every weak topic