Advanced Audit and Assurance study guide for the CPA Program (seventh edition)
A plain-English guide to Advanced Audit and Assurance: the audit process in order, how the opinion is decided, and the multiple-choice traps.
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CPA Program Ten subjects, from ethics to digital finance, plus the technique that applies to every exam.
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How to find the topics that carry the marks
A simple study method for any exam. Read where the marks sit, back the few topics that carry most of them, and stop spreading your time evenly.
How to read a question stem so you stop losing easy marks
Everything you need to answer is already there in the stem. Read the command verb, catch the qualifiers, and stop giving away marks you have already earned.
Open book does not mean unprepared
A reference sheet you can use under time pressure takes planning. What to put on it, what to leave off, and how to lay it out for fast lookup.
The last seven days before your exam, hour by hour
A calm, realistic plan for the final week that assumes you have a job and a life. Convert what you already know into marks, with no all-nighters.
Audit and Risk study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to Audit and Risk: how the audit fits together, where the marks sit, and how to prepare for the submission, workshop and exam.
Integrated Chartered Accounting Practice study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to Integrated Chartered Accounting Practice: how the subject pulls everything together, and how to think in the integrated exam.
Strategy and Business Performance study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to Strategy and Business Performance: how the frameworks earn marks, and how to read business performance from the numbers.
Australia Taxation Advanced study guide for the CPA Program (eleventh edition)
A plain-English guide to Australia Taxation Advanced: why breadth is the challenge, how companies, trusts and super are taxed, and dividend imputation.
Australia Taxation study guide for the CPA Program (eighth edition)
A plain-English guide to Australia Taxation: how tax payable is built up, what is assessable and what is deductible, and the CGT and entity rules.
Tax study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to the Tax subject: where the marks sit, the core methods, and how to prepare for the written submission and open-book exam.
Contemporary Business Issues study guide for the CPA Program (fifth edition)
A plain-English guide to Contemporary Business Issues: the themes that carry the exam, turning easy reading into exact points, and the multiple-choice traps.
Digital Finance study guide for the CPA Program (first edition)
A plain-English guide to Digital Finance: how data turns into decisions, the technologies and their risks, and how to prepare for a brand-new subject.
Ethics and Governance study guide for the CPA Program (fourth edition)
A plain-English guide to Ethics and Governance: why the governance half decides your result, and how to answer ethics questions with a repeatable method.
Ethics and Sustainability study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to Ethics and Sustainability: the one framework that runs the subject, sustainability reporting, and the group assessment.
Financial Accounting and Reporting study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to Financial Accounting and Reporting: where the marks sit, the standards that carry the exam, and how to prepare for the submission.
Financial Reporting study guide for the CPA Program (sixth edition)
A plain-English guide to Financial Reporting: where the marks sit, how to run consolidation and deferred tax cleanly, and the standards that carry the exam.
Financial Risk Management study guide for the CPA Program (fourth edition)
A plain-English guide to Financial Risk Management: the risk process, how derivatives pay off, hedge accounting, and the multiple-choice exam.
Global Strategy and Leadership study guide for the CPA Program (the capstone)
A plain-English guide to the Global Strategy and Leadership capstone: what the outline weights, and how to work the case from analysis to recommendation.
Risk, Technology and AI study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to Risk, Technology and AI: how the two written submissions are marked, and how to write a case answer that earns the marks.
Strategic Management Accounting study guide for the CPA Program (third edition)
A plain-English guide to Strategic Management Accounting: where the marks sit, performance management and budgeting, and the decision-making traps.
Assurance study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to the Assurance elective: the five engagement types beyond the audit, the standards that govern them, and how it is assessed.
Data analytics and insights study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to the Data Analytics and Insights elective: choosing the right analytics type, preparing the data, and why the insight carries the marks.
Financial modelling study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to the Financial Modelling elective: the structure good models share, how reviews work, and what it means to be marked on a build.
Sustainability for accountants study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to the Sustainability for Accountants elective: the IFRS S2 pillars, which framework to reach for, and what is mandatory in Australia.
Advanced financial reporting study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to the Advanced Financial Reporting elective: hedge accounting, the equity method, and how the classification calls decide the marks.
Advanced tax study guide for the CA Program
A plain-English guide to the Advanced Tax elective: the two chapters, how the advice frame works, and how to prepare for a submission with no exam.
The ASX corporate governance principles, explained
What the eight principles are, how the if not, why not basis actually works, and why it is not the same thing as the United Kingdom's comply or explain.
Consolidation explained: control, goodwill and the non-controlling interest
Classify the investment before you consolidate anything, then work the sequence. What control means, where goodwill comes from, and the two ways to measure NCI.
Deferred tax explained: assets, liabilities and the direction test
A plain-English guide to deferred tax: what a tax base is, how to tell an asset from a liability, and the direction test that decides most of the marks.
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