Kaplan Professional Awards · RQF Level 6
KPA Level 6 Diploma in Professional Accountancy
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits37
- Guided learning304 hours
- Units in this qualification6
Awarded by Kaplan Professional Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Assurance, Risk and ReportingReal 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 StrategyReal 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 StrategyReal 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 AssuranceReal 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 StudyReal 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 PlanningReal 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.
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.
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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.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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.
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.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
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
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.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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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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