Next Generation ACA Advanced

The Next Generation ACA Advanced Level offers comprehensive and specialised training, equipping you with advanced knowledge and skills required to handle complex financial and business challenges, across diverse disciplines in corporate reporting, strategic business awareness and ethical judgement.

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Overview

Next Generation ACA Advanced will build on the knowledge you gained in the Certificate and Professional Levels. Coupled with the experience you gain in work, you’ll attain a deeper understanding of accountancy and finance within businesses, and become eligible for chartered accountancy status upon qualifying.

These courses are part of the new syllabus. If you require the current syllabus, which is valid through to July 2027 for CR and November 2027 for SBM, please view our timetables or contact student services for further information.

Average duration

12 months

Assessments

2 exams

Kaplan pass rate

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ICAEW Chartered Accountant

Timetables

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Who it’s for

Entry requirements

You are advised to have passed the ACA Professional exams before progressing to the Advanced level.

Learning outcomes from the course

You will develop advanced expertise across diverse disciplines with the ACA Advanced level, mastering complex concepts in accounting, finance, and business management, and emerging as a trusted leader in the field.

Apprenticeships

You may be eligible for an apprenticeship through your employer, depending on your circumstances.

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Course content

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Compulsory

Technical Case Study (TCS)

You’ll learn how to analyse financial statements across a range of industries over time, manage audit planning, and create corporate reporting policies.You’ll use your technical knowledge, analytical techniques, and professional skills to resolve compliance and business issues within the context of corporate reporting and audit services; weighing ethical standards, commercial impacts, and the practical needs of your clients and stakeholders. Ahead of the exam, you’ll be given background details (known as Advance Information) about the organisation and its business environment.

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Advanced financial reporting standards
Advanced group accounting
Advanced audit and assurance
Financial statement analysis

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Strategic Case Study (SCS)

You’ll demonstrate your quantitative and qualitative skills to make business recommendations in complex scenarios. You’ll apply professional judgement to examine quantitative and qualitative data from many sources, to evaluate different solutions. When you complete this unit, you’ll be able to evaluate the implications of strategic choices and recommend strategies to achieve stakeholder objectives; advise appropriate finance requirements and evaluate financial risks; use ethics to determine safeguards against threat; explain and implement assurance; and interpret and apply corporate reporting. Ahead of the exam, you’ll be given background details (known as Advance Information) about the organisation and its business environment.

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Strategic analysis
Organisational leadership
Corporate governance
Strategic decision making

Exams

Next Generation ACA Advanced Level

Computer Based Exams

At the Advanced Level, TCS and SCS are both 4 hours long, with a pass mark of 50%. To be eligible for the SCS exam, you must be in the final 18 months of your training contract and have attempted (or received credit for) all other exams. To complete the qualification, you’ll also need to complete Specialised Learning, evidence professional skills development, and have a minimum of 450 practical work experience days.

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ICAEW exam software

ICAEW's exam software has been developed to ensure the ACA reflects modern accountancy practices. This includes:

Spreadsheet software that reflects commonly used applications. The spreadsheet contains standard functionality that allows you to make your calculations and adjust them if needed, just as you would in the workplace
A word processor that auto-adjusts to the size of the response that you are writing, and allows you to copy in the data from the spreadsheet as part of the report (only the word processing section will get marked)
Digital copies of relevant permitted texts such as the tax tables within the exam so that you can easily search for the content that you need.

Courses

To enrol on Next Generation ACA Advanced, please complete the enrolment form.

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ICAEW digital materialsAccessed via the ICAEW Bookshelf where you can view, annotate, and highlight key passages.
Kaplan workbookKaplan-produced workbook that brings out key areas of the syllabus, integrates with online content and provides question practice.
Digital contentTargeted online resources to support your study with prerequisite knowledge, question practice, and dedicated exam preparation.
Marked mock exams and lots of additional practice questionsEnsure you’re exam ready with our preparation materials. Mocks are strategically positioned to provide space for feedback, reflection, and adjustment.
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Study methods

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Live, tutor-led classes at set times
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Learn face-to-face with tutors
Speak face-to-face with other learners
Engage online with learners on the same course
Skills and behaviours modules

Ways to pay

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Invoice your employer

Your employer may fund the costs of your studies if you're already working in a related field and want to develop your learning.

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