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CAPE Accounting

CAPE Accounting Units 1 and 2 in syllabus order: control systems, partnership and company statements, cash flows and ratios, costing, budgets, variances and investment appraisal, plus the internal assessment and past papers.

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📝 Caribbean School Exams

CAPE Accounting

Studying CAPE Accounting Units 1 and 2: financial accounting, interpretation of statements, cost and management accounting, and the internal assessment.

  1. CAPE Accounting syllabus and paper format check
  2. Taking Unit 1, Unit 2 or both in one year
  3. Bridging diagnostic from CSEC Principles of Accounts
  4. IFRS terminology and pro-forma statement layouts
  5. Two-year Accounting study timetable counted back from the sittings
  6. Past paper bank sorted by unit, module and question type
  7. Accounting error log
  8. Daily fifteen-minute double-entry drill
  9. Midweek worked question from the current module
  10. Saturday timed Paper 02 question
  11. Monthly timed multiple choice set
  12. Spaced review rotation of finished modules
  13. Accounting score log by module and paper
  14. Parent monthly Accounting check-in
  15. Accounting concepts, the conceptual framework and standard setters
  16. Control accounts, bank reconciliations and suspense accounts
  17. Inventory valuation and its effect on reported profit
  18. Depreciation, disposals and revaluation of non-current assets
  19. Incomplete records and non-profit organisation accounts
  20. Manufacturing accounts and the cost of production
  21. Partnership appropriation, admission and retirement
  22. Partnership dissolution and realisation accounts
  23. Limited liability company statements and share capital
  24. Statement of cash flows by the indirect method
  25. Ratio analysis across profitability, liquidity, efficiency and gearing
  26. Writing an interpretation of financial statements
  27. Cost classification, cost behaviour and the high-low method
  28. Material costing, stores records and inventory control levels
  29. Labour costing, remuneration methods and labour turnover
  30. Overhead apportionment, absorption and service department reapportionment
  31. Marginal versus absorption costing and profit reconciliation
  32. Job, batch and contract costing
  33. Process costing with losses, gains and equivalent units
  34. Activity-based costing compared with traditional absorption
  35. Cost-volume-profit and break-even analysis
  36. Functional, cash and flexible budgets
  37. Standard costing and variance analysis
  38. Relevant costing for short-term decisions
  39. Capital investment appraisal with payback, ARR, NPV and IRR
  40. Accounting internal assessment requirements and dates
  41. Accounting internal assessment from business choice to submission
  42. Mark schemes, examiner reports and answer presentation
  43. School mock exam for your Accounting unit
  44. Final eight weeks Accounting revision plan
  45. Last full past paper under exam conditions
  46. Accounting exam days and the night before
  47. Choosing an Accounting lessons class or tutor
  48. Paper 032 route for private and repeat candidates
  49. Teacher module test bank and marking calendar
  50. CAPE Accounting as a route to professional qualifications

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

CAPE Accounting syllabus and paper format check

Every topic in this area should be checked against the current CAPE Accounting syllabus from the CXC website, because it alone says what Unit 1 and Unit 2 cover, how Paper 01, Paper 02 and the internal assessment fit together, and what private candidates sit instead. Each unit is a separate examination with its own modules, so map both on one page before the first set of notes is written.

First tasks

  • Download the current CAPE Accounting syllabus from the CXC website
  • List the modules of each unit and their topics on one page in syllabus order
  • Note the format of Paper 01, Paper 02, Paper 031 and Paper 032 for each unit
  • Check the current CXC timetable and write your Accounting paper dates on the calendar
  • Check the CXC website for Accounting syllabus amendments each September @recurring(yearly)

Taking Unit 1, Unit 2 or both in one year

Most schools teach Unit 1, Financial Accounting, in Lower Six and Unit 2, Cost and Management Accounting, in Upper Six, but some students sit both in one year or take only one to complete a scholarship profile or meet a programme requirement. Deciding early, with your school's offer and the entry rules for your intended degree in front of you, avoids registering for a unit you are not ready for.

First tasks

  • Ask your Accounting teacher which units the school offers in which year
  • Check whether your intended degree asks for one or both Accounting units
  • Write down the decision and the reason in one paragraph
  • Confirm the registration entry with the school before the deadline

Bridging diagnostic from CSEC Principles of Accounts

CAPE Accounting assumes fluent double entry from the first week, so gaps left over from CSEC Principles of Accounts, such as accruals and prepayments, the allowance for doubtful debts or the layout of the statement of financial position, slow down every later topic. A two-hour diagnostic in the first fortnight shows exactly which skills need rebuilding before partnership and company accounts begin.

First tasks

  • Pick two recent CSEC Principles of Accounts Paper 02 questions on final accounts with adjustments
  • Answer both questions in two hours without notes
  • Mark them against the mark scheme and list each lost mark by skill
  • Reteach the weakest skill and resit a fresh question on it

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Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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