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Kaplan Professional Awards · RQF Level 6

KPA Level 6 Diploma in Professional Accountancy (RQF)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 6
  • Total credits72
  • Guided learning711 hours
  • Units in this qualification6

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

The KPA Level 6 Diploma in Professional Accountancy is a professional development programme, providing a comprehensive understanding of accountancy, finance and business. This helps the candidate to build the technical knowledge, professional skills, and practical experience needed to progress to the advanced level of the ICAEW/ACA qualification . Upon successful completion, candidates will achieve a nationally recognised KPA Level 6 Diploma in Professional Accountancy qualification.

These are the units Kaplan Professional Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Audit and AssuranceReal unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
This unit provides learners with an understanding of audit and assurance engagements, including legal and professional regulations, ethics, and current issues. You'll plan, conclude, and report on assurance engagements in accordance with standards and terms of engagement.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legal and other professional regulations, ethics, accepting and managing engagements and current issues related to audit and assurance
  • Plan assurance engagements effectively
  • Conclude and report on assurance engagements in accordance with the terms of engagement and appropriate standards
Business Planning: TaxationReal unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
You'll develop knowledge of advanced taxation types and tax planning approaches. The unit covers ethical and legal implications in taxation scenarios, enabling learners to differentiate tax types and understand their impact on business planning.

What you'll be able to do

  • Distinguish between the different types of advanced taxation
  • Understand various approaches to tax planning
  • Understand the ethical implications and legal regulations in given taxation scenarios
Business Strategy and TechnologyReal unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
You'll learn to conduct strategic analyses of organisations using tools such as SWOT, PESTLE, and Porter's Five Forces. The unit covers evaluating competitive positions, understanding strategic choice impacts, and implementing and monitoring strategic decisions.

What you'll be able to do

  • Conduct a strategic analysis of an organisation
  • Understand the impact of making a strategic choice on an organisation
  • Implement and monitor strategic decisions within an organisation
Financial Accounting and Reporting: IFRSReal unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
You'll gain an understanding of financial accounting and reporting under IFRS. The unit covers accounting concepts, ethics, and the preparation of single entity and consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS standards.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand accounting and reporting concepts and ethics.
  • Prepare single entity financial statements.
  • Prepare consolidated financial statements.
Financial ManagementReal unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
It teaches you to understand and apply financial management principles, including financing options, financial risk management, and investment decision-making. You'll evaluate sources of finance and perform valuation techniques within organisational contexts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand different financing options available to organisations
  • Manage financial risk within an organisation
  • Make informed investment decisions and perform valuations
Tax ComplianceReal unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
This unit provides learners with knowledge of UK tax laws, including ethical and legal considerations. You'll understand indirect tax calculations and prepare capital gains, inheritance, and corporation tax returns, as well as comprehend income tax and National Insurance contributions.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the ethical implications and legal regulations surrounding UK tax laws.
  • Understand how indirect taxes are calculated.
  • Prepare capital gains tax returns.
  • Prepare inheritance tax returns.
  • Prepare corporation tax returns.
  • Understand how income tax is calculated.
  • Understand how National Insurance Contributions (NICs) are calculated.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 6 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.

Audit and AssuranceBusiness Planning: TaxationBusiness Strategy and TechnologyFinancial Accounting and Reporting: IFRSFinancial ManagementTax Compliance

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

Tax Compliance Manager

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How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Audit and AssuranceLevel 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Tax Compliance ManagerIFRS SpecialistTax AssociateTax AccountantTax Controversy SpecialistSenior Tax Compliance Analyst

This unit provides learners with an understanding of audit and assurance engagements, including legal and professional regulations, ethics, and current issues. Learners will plan, conclude, and report on assurance engagements in accordance with standards and terms of engagement.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
Your PlanIllustration

Built for KPA Level 6 Diploma in Professional Accountancy (RQF)

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Kaplan Professional Awards.

  1. Audit and Assurance
  2. Business Planning: Taxation
  3. Business Strategy and Technology
  4. Financial Accounting and Reporting: IFRS
  5. Financial Management
  6. Tax Compliance
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

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