You may have already known that ICAN has updated their syllabus which have taken effect this November 2019 diet.

In order for you to get yourself fully prepared for the exams,

There are some key elements you need to be aware of in this new syllabus…

One of the good news about the ICAN new syllabus is that ICAN has signed a consensus agreement with other foreign Chartered Institutes.

What this means is that, with your ICAN (ACA) you can be certified without writing any exam for the following; Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

All you need is just few years of working experience and, yes, without writing any exams.

In addition to that;

• In Financial Reporting and Corporate Reporting, there are some IFRS accounting standards that were not effective in the old syllabus which will be included in the new syllabus.
Besides that, few new ones just released are going to be tested now.

• Some of the key elements in Quantitative Techniques (QA) that have been scraped and has been added to Performance Management and Case Study.

• In the exams structure, nothing changes in foundation, but in Skills and Professional, question one is now compulsory which is going to be 40marks and that question one in every diet will come from the Core Topic Area.

• If you wrote Foundation last diet and you are to move to Skill level now, you are allowed to combine taxation which has been moved to foundation with the skill courses in your exams.

• In Case Study, you will be given a Case two weeks to the exams for proper study.
Please note that, it’s the case you are going to be given and not the question and requirement, the question and will be given to students on the day of the exams.
Also the maximum pages now for case study is 30 pages as against the previous 15 pages.


• Please note that what the examiner will be testing for in your Case Study is your analytical skills, which means that at the end of your analysis or answers, you are expected to give summary.

• Marking of exams now is going to be onscreen marking which means that it’s going to take a minimum time for ICAN to release their results. To that effect, there will now be three diets in a year which is going to be March, July and November.

• Registration for the exams will no longer be allowed at the last minutes of the exams as there will now be a deadline for registration. Which means after the deadline, ICAN will accept your payment but will not allow you to sit for the exams for the diet but will instead, carry the registration over to the next diet.

Please note that according to ICAN; as they have simplified things for the students with the Core Topic Areas for each subject which is going to be 40% of your total scores, the marking scheme now will be stricter.

PS: You need to start preparation right now. If you have not started and also if you have not gotten your video lectures, you should know that the clock is ticking fast. Time waits for no one, you shouldn’t wait for time


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