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CPA Foundation Level: notes, video lessons and podcasts

The KASNEB CPA Foundation Level has 6 papers. They are taught here with video lessons, audio podcasts and printable notes, in syllabus order - 214 topics in all.

Financial Accounting (CA11)

20 topics · notes from KES 500

  1. Introduction to Accounting
  2. The Accounting Process - Correcting Errors, the Suspense Account, and the Ledger Control Accounts
  3. The Accounting Process - Correcting a Drafted Statement, Commitments and Contingencies, and Reconstructing a Current Account
  4. The Accounting Process and Systems
  5. Regulation and Principles Guiding the Accounting Profession
  6. Accounting for Assets and Liabilities

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Communication Skills (CA12)

44 topics · notes from KES 500

  1. Introduction to Communication
  2. Introduction to Communication - The Parties and the Barriers by Category
  3. Introduction to Communication - Flow, Feedback and Benefits
  4. Introduction to Communication - Barriers by the Cut the Examiner Takes, and What They Cost
  5. Introduction to Communication - Encoding, Decoding and Feedback, Choosing a Channel, and the Skills of the Person
  6. Introduction to Communication - Networks, Non-Verbal Signals, Media Richness and Culture

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Introduction to Law and Governance (CA13)

53 topics · notes from KES 500

  1. Nature, Purpose and Classification of Law
  2. Nature, Purpose and Classification of Law - The Constitution and Legislation
  3. Nature, Purpose and Classification of Law - The Received Law and Custom
  4. Nature and Purpose of Law - What Law Is For, and the Ethical Theories Beneath It
  5. Nature, Purpose and Classification of Law - Precedent's Defects, Reading a Statute, Mandamus and Naturalisation
  6. Nature, Purpose and Classification of Law - International Law, the Personal Laws, Codification and Conflicting Sources

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Economics (CA14)

33 topics · notes from KES 500

  1. Introduction to Economics
  2. Introduction to Economics - The Limits of Consumer Sovereignty, and Market Failure
  3. Introduction to Economics - The Subsidy Worked, Consumer Sovereignty, SAPs and Legal Tender, and the Cost of Changing System
  4. Demand, Supply and Equilibrium
  5. Demand, Supply and Equilibrium - Price Ceilings, the Labour Market and Industries That Move
  6. Demand, Supply and Equilibrium - Profit Maximisation Worked, the Backward-Bending Labour Supply, Deriving Demand, and the Limits of Perfect Competition

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Quantitative Analysis (CA15)

37 topics · notes from KES 500

  1. Functions and Calculus Applied to Cost - Differentiating Down, Integrating Back Up
  2. Functions and Matrix Algebra - Functions, Break-even and Optimisation
  3. Functions and Matrix Algebra - A Whole Question Worked, Determinant to Inflection Point
  4. Functions and Matrix Algebra - Fitting Cost and Revenue Functions, and Maximising Profit
  5. Functions and Matrix Algebra - The Price at the Optimum, the Quadratic Break-even, Matrices and Decision Criteria
  6. Calculus - Differentiation and Integration

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Information Communication Technology (CA16)

27 topics · notes from KES 500

  1. Introduction to ICT and Computer Hardware
  2. Computer Software and Programming
  3. Computer Software and Programming - Licensing, Methodology, Prototyping and the Benefits of the Cloud
  4. ICT in the Business Environment
  5. Operating Systems - The Resource Manager, Mobile and Network Systems
  6. Operating Systems - Social Engineering, and Bring Your Own Device

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One monthly plan opens every Foundation Level paper: see the plans. Other levels: Intermediate, Advanced. The full list: KASNEB CPA syllabus.