How you’d get this certificate
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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Kaplan Professional Awards has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Kaplan Professional Awards awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Kaplan Professional Awards.
The KPA Level 6 Diploma in Professional Accountancy provides specialist knowledge, skills and understanding for those working, or intending to work, in professional accountancy. It covers areas such as business strategy, tax compliance, assurance, and corporate reporting. Successful candidates will demonstrate a sound understanding of double entry accounting techniques.
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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Kaplan Professional Awards. It does the teaching and the mapping. Kaplan Professional Awards sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Assurance, Risk and Reporting Real unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and advise on the regulatory, professional and ethical issues relevant to those carrying out assurance work
- Understand the processes involved in accepting and managing assurance engagements
- Plan assurance engagements in accordance with the terms of the engagements and appropriate international auditing and assurance standards
- Conclude and report on assurance engagements in accordance with the terms of the engagements and international auditing and assurance pronouncements
- Explain the contribution and inherent limitations of financial statements, apply the IFRS Foundation’s conceptual framework for financial reporting and identify and explain key ethical issues
- Prepare and present financial statements from accounting data for single entities in conformity with IFRS® Accounting Standards
- Explain the application of IFRS® Accounting Standards and IFRS® Sustainability Standards to specified single entity scenarios
Business and Digital Strategy Real unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Explain, analyse and evaluate the consequences of an organisation’s current strategic direction including objectives, market position, organisational structure and technology developments.
- Use data to evaluate the likely consequences of strategic choices and technology developments, and recommend business and digital strategies to meet the objectives of an organisation.
- Recommend appropriate methods for an organisation to implement and monitor strategies including strategies for technology and innovation, and demonstrate how data can be used subsequently to measure and monitor strategic performance.
- Explain and evaluate ethical issues and recommend appropriate actions, considering all stakeholders and the public interest.
Corporate Financial Strategy Real unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and apply alternative strategies to finance a business, appropriate to its circumstances and requirements, including sustainable finance
- Evaluate and explain the financial risks and opportunities for a business and develop financial strategies to manage risks and exploit opportunities
- Apply appropriate investment appraisal techniques, taking into account risks in accordance with the wider financial strategy
- Evaluate and explain the short-term liquidity and treasury requirements of a business and provide appropriate advice
- Determine and explain the distribution policy for a business and provide appropriate recommendations consistent with the wider financial strategy
- Determine and explain the valuation of shares and businesses, providing appropriate recommendations
Corporate Reporting, Data and Assurance Real unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the circumstances in which entities are required to present consolidated financial statements
- Prepare and present consolidated financial statements in conformity with IFRS® Accounting Standards
- Explain the application of IFRS® Accounting Standards and IFRS® Sustainability Standards to specified single entity and group scenarios
- Analyse and interpret financial and non-financial information to identify significant features, inconsistencies, limitations and draw conclusions
- Advise on the legal, professional and ethical issues relevant to those preparing financial statements and/or carrying out an assurance engagement
- Plan and perform assurance engagements in accordance with international auditing and assurance pronouncements
- Conclude and report on assurance engagements in accordance with international auditing and assurance pronouncements
Fundamental Case Study Real unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of the techniques of double entry accounting and apply its principles in recording transactions, straightforward adjustments to financial records and preparing non-complex financial statements.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the assurance process and fundamental principles of ethics, and contribute to the assessment of internal controls and gathering of evidence on assurance work.
- Prepare essential financial information for the management of a business.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of sustainability and ethics and how they are relevant to the work of the professional accountant.
Tax Compliance and Planning Real unit · Kaplan Professional Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the ethical issues arising in the course of performing tax work and identify the obligations the UK system of taxation imposes on taxpayers and the implications for taxpayers of non-compliance.
- Calculate the amount of VAT owed by or owed to businesses.
- Calculate the amount of stamp taxes due in straightforward transactions.
- Calculate the capital gains tax payable by individuals.
- Calculate the amounts of inheritance tax due on lifetime transfers and transfers on death by individuals, personal representatives and trustees.
- Calculate the corporation tax liabilities of companies.
- Calculate the amounts of income tax owed by or owed to individuals.
- Calculate the amounts of national insurance payable by individuals, businesses and companies.
- Advise on tax-efficient strategies for businesses and individuals in simple scenarios.
- Explain and evaluate alternative tax treatments in simple scenarios.
- Give due consideration to the interaction between taxes.
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The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Design and implement business analysis strategy
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Tax Controversy Specialist
This work starts with handling smaller, detailed cases. It can lead to managing a team, running a portfolio of high-stakes disputes, or leading a controversy practice as a partner or director.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Kaplan Professional Awards rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Assurance, Risk and ReportingBusiness and Digital StrategyCorporate Financial StrategyCorporate Reporting, Data and AssuranceFundamental Case StudyTax Compliance and Planning
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Tax Compliance and Planning” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Assurance, Risk and Reporting” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Corporate Reporting, Data and Assurance” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Assurance, Risk and Reporting, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit enables learners to understand regulatory, professional, and ethical issues in assurance work. Learners will acquire skills to manage, plan, conclude, and report on assurance engagements in accordance with relevant standards and procedures.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for KPA Level 6 Diploma in Professional Accountancy
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Kaplan Professional Awards.
- Assurance, Risk and Reporting
- Business and Digital Strategy
- Corporate Financial Strategy
- Corporate Reporting, Data and Assurance
- Fundamental Case Study
- Tax Compliance and Planning
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