The ACCA OnDemand courses are award-winning structured online course with the flexibility to start anytime and study anywhere. Topic focused learning modules, containing tutor-led bite-sized videos. Engaging activities designed for effective online learning. Integrated programme to guide students efficiently through the whole syllabus.

Who’s it for?

If you can’t attend timetabled classes, but still want a high-level of guidance and support, then OnDemand is the perfect option for you. You can study in your own time, while making sure you’re hitting the right milestones with our engaging online resources.

What’s included?

✅ Online resources designed to keep you motivated – Specifically designed online resources available on a wide range of devices so you can study the way you want. Includes practice questions, tutor-led videos, study materials and an integrated workbook.
✅ Structured tutor-led study programme – Expert tutors guide you through the whole syllabus, so you know exactly what you need to complete and when, helping to keep you on track just like in the classroom.
✅ Preparation exam questions – Interactive practice questions per subject plus marked mock exams with feedback. Realistic case studies provide context of how concepts will be seen in real life.
✅ Dedicated tutor support – We’re available weekdays until late, and weekends 9am-1pm. Get an instant answer with LiveChat or get a response in less than four working hours via request a call back and email.
✅ Learning Coach to monitor progress – In addition to academic support, our team of Learning Coaches offer advice, guidance and support on how to best learn and progress through your course. They use data to identify if you need extra support and will help you get back on track should you need it.
✅ MyKaplan – Our online portal helps you get exam confident. You’ll get full access to learning resources including time-management tools, mock exams, forums, online tests with instant feedback, and direct contact with tutors.

Module Aim:

You’ll analyse, evaluate and report on the assurance engagement and other audit and assurance issues in the context of best practice and current developments.

Study Materials:

The course fee includes digital copies of the below. You may opt to receive a physical copy of the study materials by post to your personal address (shipping fee calculated at checkout).

• Study programme – Integrated into your MyKaplan course, this outlines the course structure, providing guidance on what to do, and when.
• Study text – A textbook covering the full subject syllabus with worked examples and activities. We’re an ACCA-approved content provider, so you can be confident our study text contains everything you need to be successful in your exam.
• Pocket notes – Pocket-sized revision notes that highlight, summarise, and prioritise the key topics areas that you need for your exams.
• Exam kit – Included in the exam kit is our recommended revision approach and a revision plan, exam technique guide, an analysis of past exams (where appropriate) with exam specific information, and practice questions with answers covering all areas of the syllabus.
• Application modules – Core study material that all students receive. It’s tutor-led with interactive tasks to help deepen your understanding of key topic areas.
• Integrated workbook – Helps you work through the syllabus, with room to write your notes. It helps you keep everything in one place to make it easy to study and revise from.

Testing and Mocks:

We have a wealth of materials to help you revise for and pass your exams. All study options come with the following:

• Knowledge checks – As you go along knowledge checks help assess your understanding of a topic before you move onto the next one.
• Consolidation Test – A short test of written questions you complete part way through tuition.
• Progress Test – An exam style assessment sat at the end of tuition. Human marked with feedback provided directly to you.
• Mock exam – Practice your exam technique with a mock exam, which replicates the format of the final exam, so you can check your progress. Mock exams are human marked with feedback provided directly to you. For SBL, there will be 4 mock exams, and  an online debrief will be provided so you can understand the answer and improve your own.
• Revision Question Debriefs – Videos that walk you through an answer to an exam-standard question highlighting the correct approach to the question and how you could score marks.
• Question-based mock exams – The question-based course provides you with additional questions worth in excess of the 100 marks you will have in your real exam, in computer based exam format. You will complete the questions at home and submit online by the submission date. You will then have access to the recorded debriefs (OnDemand only) and detailed answers for all the questions to take you through the detail of these answers to ensure you have the utmost confidence in your preparation for your real exam.

Exam Structure:

The syllabus is assessed by a three hour 15 minutes Computer Based Examination. The examination is constructed in two sections. Questions in both sections will be largely discursive. However, candidates will be expected, for example, to be able to assess materiality and calculate relevant ratios where appropriate.

• Section A will comprise a Case Study, worth 50 marks, set at the planning stage of the audit, for a single company, a group of companies or potentially several audit clients. Candidates will be provided with detailed information, which will vary between examinations, but is likely to include extracts of financial information, strategic, operational and other relevant financial information for a client business, as well as extracts from audit working papers, including results of analytical procedures.
  • Candidates will be required to address a range of requirements, predominantly from syllabus sections A, B, C and D, thereby tackling a real world situation where candidates may have to address a range of issues simultaneously in relation to planning, risk assessment, evidence gathering and ethical and professional considerations. Please note that other syllabus areas, excluding E, may also be drawn on as part of the Case Study.
  • Four professional marks will be available in Section A and will be awarded based on the level of professionalism with which a candidate’s answer is presented, including the structure and clarity of the answer provided.
• Section B will contain two compulsory 25 mark questions, with each being predominately based around a short scenario.
  • One question will always predominantly come from syllabus section E, and consequently candidates should be prepared to answer a question relating to completion, review and reporting.
  • There are a number of formats this question could adopt, including, but not limited to, requiring candidates to assess going concern, the impact of subsequent events, evaluating identified misstatements and the corresponding effect on the auditor’s report.
  • Candidates may also be asked to critique an auditor’s report or evaluate the matters to be included in a report which is to be provided to management or those charged with governance. The other Section B question can be drawn from any other syllabus section, including A, B, C, D and F.

Quality control and ethics: The auditor’s assessment of effective quality control procedures and consideration of ethical issue are fundamental to all stages of the audit and therefore these concepts could be examined in any section of the exam.

Current issues: Syllabus section G on current issues may be examined in Section A or B as appropriate. Current issues is unlikely to form the basis of any question on its own but instead will be incorporated into the Case Study or either of the Section B questions dependent on question content and the topical issues affecting the profession at the time of writing.

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Syllabus and Study Guide: Click Here to view Syllabus and Study Guide.

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