For Students on the Path to Qualification
Whichever designation you're working toward, CA(SA), ACCA or CIMA, this stretch is the hardest part: full-time studying, high-stakes exams, and trying to think about the working world before you've even left campus.
​
This hub isn't here to re-teach what your lecturers already teach. It's here for the part universities don't cover: how to actually study for an exam like this, and how to think about the years ahead.
​​
Study Smarter, Not Just Harder
Mastering Accounting: Study Skills Series A 4-part video series covering how to identify your own learning style and general exam preparation strategy for accounting students, whichever qualification you're working toward.
​
Think Like an Auditor: A framework for the audit cycle, not another list of definitions. Walks through pre-engagement, planning, execution and completion using one worked example, Revenue under IFRS 15, so you can transfer the same thinking to any item on your exam paper. Built for CA(SA), ACCA and CIMA audit students who've covered the theory and now need to apply it.
More study skills resources are in development and will be added here over time.
​
​
Where We Are, By Route
CA(SA): This is where LGC Foundation's own roots are, so it's currently the most developed part of this hub. If you haven't already, the CA(SA) Route Guide is a useful refresher on where you are in the bigger picture.
​
ACCA: Resources here are still growing. In the meantime, the ACCA Route Guide is a good orientation tool if you want to see how your qualification maps out end to end.
​CIMA: Same story as ACCA: still building this out. The CIMA Route Guide covers the fundamentals, including the integration route into CA(SA) if that's part of your thinking.
​​
A note on where we are: LGC Foundation was founded by a CA(SA), so naturally that's where the deepest resources sit right now. ACCA and CIMA-specific study content is being built out over time rather than rushed, so that what's here is genuinely useful rather than a copy-paste of the CA(SA) material with the name swapped.
​
Next Step
-
Watch the Mastering Accounting study skills series
-
Download the Think Like an Auditor guide
-
Check the Route Guide for your specific qualification if you want the bigger-picture refresher
