CFE Indian and Other International CAs (Currently NOT Living in Canada)

Course Description

This course was designed specifically to meet the needs of Indian and other International accountants, not currently living in Canada. The course begins with a session which describes the CFE in detail and instructs students on how to prepare for the exam, including preparing an effective study plan.

Course Elements

The course consists of three elements which we believe are essential for success on the CFE:

1. Technical review
2. Sessions on how to write cases and practice case writing
3. Personal attention for each student

1. Technical Review

In order to pass the CFE students need a solid technical foundation in 6 competencies:

1. financial reporting
2. management accounting
3. assurance
4. taxation
5. strategy & governance and
6. finance

Many international students will not be familiar with Canadian GAAP or taxation. Even for subjects that are similar throughout the world like management accounting and finance, many students will still require a technical review as they will have learned these topics many years ago.

In order to ensure that students achieve the required technical foundation, this course provides:

1) Live technical sessions in financial accounting and management accounting, the two technical topics that are most heavily tested on the CFE.

The financial accounting sessions cover all of the challenging topics under both IFRS as well as ASPE which is an accounting framework developed in Canada for private enterprises. The management accounting sessions cover all of the difficult topics in management accounting including, standard costing and variances, contribution margin analysis, activity based costing etc. For both financial and management accounting, cases are used to demonstrate application of technical knowledge.

2) Technical videos which cover taxation, assurance, strategy & governance and finance. These videos are available to students as soon as they register in the course and can be watched any time at the student's convenience.

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2. Case Writing

The CFE is a case based exam so it is vital that students be proficient in writing cases. However based on our experience many international students do not have experience in this area unlike Canadian students who generally write cases throughout their years in university. Therefore PASS has built very extensive training in how to write cases into this course.

Students will have the the opportunity to write numerous cases which will be professionally marked and debriefed in class. Students will also learn fundamental case writing techniques, essential for successful case writing including a structured approach for attacking the comp "Day 2 Case" which is a challenging 5 hour case.

Students will also learn techniques for getting sufficient depth in various competencies, including:

• Numerical Methods - How to perform quantitative analysis quickly and effectively in order to reach at least the 'competent' level
• Depth in Financial Accounting - Essential technique for financial accounting issues which ensures students will move from 'nominal' or 'reaching competent' to 'competent' once an issue is identified
• Integrated Tax - Review technical corporate and personal tax and integrate the technical into cases
• Integrated Audit - Learn audit techniques to apply in cases to move up the competency levels

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3. Personal Attention

PASS prides itself on providing personal attention for every student. We however have determined that International students require more personal attention due to their lack of experience in case writing.

The course therefore provides 3 personal counselling sessions for each student in which the marker meets with the student to review a case the student wrote and provides constructive advice on how the student could have improved his/her performance.

The course directors Ira Walfish and Michael Levi are also available to students should they have questions or concerns in any area.

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Timing of The Course

PASS offers 1 version of the course for the May 2024 CFE and 2 versions of the course for the Sept. 2024 exam.

May 2024 - Begin Now (Anytime After June 2023 - Earlier is Better!)

Sept. 2024 - Version 1 - Begin Case Writing in January

In version 1 of the course, students begin their practice case writing in January and write a number of cases in the winter and spring.  This version has 2 advantages:

1. it allows students to get an early start on their case writing which is very important given that many students will require significant time to master case writing and
2. it means that students will not be writing PASS cases while they are in Capstone 2 as they will already have written the cases before beginning Capstone 2.

We strongly recommend this version for students who expect to be working in the summer as well as any students who would like to get an early start on case writing.

Sept. 2024 - Version 2 - Begin Case Writing in the Spring

In version 2 of the course, case writing does not begin until the spring so there is a bigger emphasis on writing PASS cases in the summer.  This version is for students whose schedule does not allow them to begin case writing early or who only join the course in the spring.

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Course Venues

Live Online

All live online sessions are recorded and the videos can be watched at any point in time.

Course Includes

• Extensive technical notes for all 6 competencies
• Multiple cases provided for self study
  
• 1 day on case writing techniques - How to write CFE Cases
• 4 "Technique" sessions
• Write (and get marked) 8 Day 3 Cases (excluding Capstone 2 cases (alternative course))
  
• Write (and get marked) 2 Day 2 Cases (excluding Capstone 2 cases (alternative course))
• Write (and get marked) 2 Day 1 cases, 2 Day 2 Cases and 8 Day 3 Cases (with alternative course only)
• 2 Day 2 Cases de-briefed
• 3 personal counselling sessions (for three exams)
• PASS comprehensive binder and all course notes

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Course Price

$1,995

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