Students writing an examination should prepare themselves appropriately for the exam by referring to the below lists of examinable pronouncements.

Initial Test of Competence (ITC), previously known as Part I of the Qualifying Examination (QEI)

• Competency Framework
  • Detailed guidance for the academic programme (1,1Mb PDF)
• Auditing
  • Examinable pronouncements (105Kb PDF)
• Financial Accounting
  • Examinable Pronouncements (103Kb PDF)
• Taxation
  • Examinable pronouncements (212Kb PDF)
  • Monetary changes (47Kb PDF)
• Management Accounting and Financial Management
  • Syllabus (131Kb PDF)

• Auditing
  • Examinable pronouncements (200Kb PDF)
  • Auditing assurance services and corporate governance syllabus (326Kb PDF)
  • Companies Act 2008 (Act 71 OF 2008) syllabus (167Kb PDF)

NOTE: that the  Companies Amendment Act No.3 of 2011 and the Companies Regulations 2011 will NOT be examinable in the QE I 2012 examination

• Financial Accounting
  • Examinable Pronouncements (70Kb PDF)
• Taxation
  • Examinable pronouncements (274Kb PDF)
  • Monetary changes (44Kb PDF)  
• Management Accounting and Financial Management
  • Syllabus (131Kb PDF)

• Auditing
  • Examinable pronouncements (878Kb PDF)
  • Auditing assurance services and corporate governance syllabus (1Mb PDF)
• Financial Accounting
  • Examinable Pronouncements (860Kb PDF)
• Taxation
  • Examinable pronouncements (1Mb PDF)
  • Monetary changes (765Kb PDF)
• Management Accounting and Financial Management
  • Syllabus (131Kb PDF)

January 2010

• Auditing (50Kb PDF)
• Financial Accounting (63Kb PDF)
• Taxation (130Kb PDF)

  Errata to volume 1 & 2 of the SAICA Legislation Handbook 2008/2009

  • English (180Kb PDF)
  • Afrikaans (180Kb PDF)

March 2009

• Auditing (44Kb PDF)
• Financial Accounting (50Kb PDF)
• Taxation (244Kb PDF)

Part II - Financial Management - Syllabus

• Brief Outline
• Syllabus - Pre-requisites for admission into Part II of the Qualifying Exam (156Kb PDF)

PPE – Examinable Pronouncements

• The Public Practice Examination (PPE): 2011– which is set by the IRBA (195Kb PDF)
• The Public Practice Examination (PPE): 2010– which is set by the IRBA (60Kb PDF)
• The Public Practice Examination (PPE): 2009 – which is set by the IRBA (50Kb PDF)