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ICAN CAP-II · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Financial Accounting and Reporting

  • Map the IFRS/IAS standards examinable under Financial Accounting and Reporting into a one-page checklist you can tick off

  • Prepare and present, from scratch, a consolidated statement of financial position and statement of profit or loss for a parent with one subsidiary, including fair value adjustments and goodwill

  • Compute and explain the treatment of non-controlling interest under both the proportionate and full goodwill methods

  • Solve 15 past-style computational questions on revenue recognition (IFRS 15 five-step model) and lease accounting (IFRS 16) under timed conditions

Your checkpoint

A 20-page handwritten summary of consolidation workings plus a scored 15-question accuracy log (target 70% or above)

Week 2

Financial Accounting and Reporting

  • Work through financial instruments (IFRS 9) classification, impairment under the expected credit loss model, and convert three worked examples into your own notes

  • Draft a full set of financial statements with notes from a trial balance, including deferred tax, provisions, and events after the reporting period

  • Analyse three published annual reports and identify how each applies IAS 1 presentation and IAS 8 accounting policy disclosure requirements

  • Complete a 25-question mixed-format mock on Financial Accounting and Reporting and record every wrong answer with its root cause

Your checkpoint

A complete trial-balance-to-financial-statements exercise marked against a model answer, plus a root-cause error log of at least 10 entries

Week 3

Audit and Assurance

  • Summarise the ISA requirements for audit planning, materiality, and risk assessment into a decision flowchart you can redraw from memory

  • Design an audit response programme for a revenue-recognition fraud risk, specifying assertions, procedures, and evidence expected

  • Evaluate the auditor's reporting responsibilities under ISA 700 and ISA 701, and draft modified opinions for three given scenarios

  • Explain the ethical threats and safeguards under the IESBA Code for two independence scenarios involving fees and long association

Your checkpoint

A one-page audit strategy memorandum for a fictional manufacturing client covering risks, materiality, and planned procedures

Week 4

Financial Accounting and Reporting & Audit and Assurance

  • Re-solve every Financial Accounting and Reporting question you got wrong in weeks 1 and 2 without notes, and confirm mastery

  • Complete a 40-question integrated mock spanning both accounting and audit and score it against the pass mark

  • Rehearse the audit evidence and internal control concepts that link financial statement assertions to substantive testing

  • Write a 300-word comparison of how an accounting error is treated by management versus how the auditor reports it

Your checkpoint

A timed 40-question integrated mock with a score sheet and a written remediation plan for any domain scoring under 60%

Week 5

Taxation

  • Build a tax computation template covering income tax, capital allowances, and loss relief for a corporate entity and apply it to four case scenarios

  • Calculate value added tax, withholding tax, and transfer pricing adjustments in three multi-entity scenarios and state the compliance deadlines

  • Distinguish the tax treatment of capital versus revenue transactions and justify each classification with the relevant principle

  • Prepare a 10-point checklist of tax filing obligations and penalties for a fictional company operating in your jurisdiction

Your checkpoint

A completed corporate tax computation for a case with capital allowances and losses, plus a compliance deadline calendar

Week 6

Corporate Strategy, Governance and Ethics & Management Accounting and Decision Making

  • Apply a governance framework to two case studies and identify board composition, committee, and disclosure weaknesses

  • Evaluate an ethical dilemma using a recognised decision model and recommend a course of action with justification

  • Construct a break-even, relevant costing, and limiting-factor analysis for a production decision and recommend the optimal plan

  • Prepare a variance analysis report that decomposes a profit shortfall into price, volume, and mix effects

Your checkpoint

A 1,000-word board briefing note recommending a strategic option, supported by a costing and variance analysis appendix

Week 7

Financial Management & Business Law and Regulation

  • Compute weighted average cost of capital, evaluate an investment appraisal under NPV and IRR, and explain the treatment of risk and inflation

  • Assess working capital and financing options for a growth scenario and quantify the cost of each option

  • Summarise the core principles of contract formation, agency, and company law relevant to directors' duties in a one-page reference sheet

  • Analyse two regulatory or legal scenarios and identify the applicable rule, breach, and remedy

Your checkpoint

A capital investment appraisal memo with WACC calculation, NPV, sensitivity analysis, and a final recommendation

Week 8

Information Technology and Data Analytics & Public Sector and Not-for-Profit Accounting & Financial Accounting and Reporting & Audit and Assurance & Taxation & Corporate Strategy, Governance and Ethics & Management Accounting and Decision Making & Financial Management & Business Law and Regulation

  • Explain how data analytics techniques such as sampling, trend analysis, and visualisation support audit and management decisions, with two worked examples

  • Distinguish public sector and not-for-profit reporting requirements from private sector practice, covering fund accounting and modified accrual bases

  • Complete two full-length timed mock examinations under exam conditions and mark them strictly

  • Consolidate every error from all eight weeks into a single revision sheet and re-test the weakest 30 items

Your checkpoint

Two completed full-length mocks with scores at or above the pass mark, plus a consolidated one-page revision sheet of recurring errors

Milestones

Week 2: Produce a full set of financial statements from a trial balance unaided and score at least 70% on the 25-question Financial Accounting and Reporting mock

Week 4: Score at least 60% on the integrated accounting and audit mock and have a written remediation plan for every domain below that threshold

Week 6: Deliver the board briefing note with a defensible recommendation and a costing appendix that reconciles to the stated profit impact

Week 8: Score at or above the pass mark on both full-length timed mocks and demonstrate that recurring errors from the consolidated revision sheet have been re-tested and cleared