HKICPA New Qualification Programme (New QP)
Overview
Overview
The New QP prepared and monitored by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) is specifically tailored to Hong Kong's business environment. It is synonymous with quality and a choice for students who seek to stand out among their peers. A professional qualification opens many otherwise closed doors.
The programmes break the traditional learning mode, exposing students to real business cases. It encourages students to think independently. In workshops, problems are presented which require effective and professional solutions. Emphasis is placed on demonstrating the ability to make professional decisions, contribute through teamwork and interact in a working group.
The programmes utilize the practical business application of accounting, taxation, auditing and IT. Using proven training methods, it prepares you for a career as a competent and forward thinking accountant with a successful business career.
The programmes curriculum is a comprehensive, professional and accredited training programme highly regarded in accounting and financial sectors.
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Course Details
Module 11
Module 11
Lecturer : Fanny Choi
Duration: 81hrs
Language: Cantonese
- Cover the fundamental knowledge of HKFRSs and most of the important topics and concepts in the phase
- Provide her tailor-made handouts which contains detailed flowcharts, summarized tables and supplementary information to help you understand the HKFRSs
- Reinforce your knowledge and exam techniques in revision phase with exam focused practise and past paper analysis
- Provide her point of views on the hot topic areas and her own recommendation on the answering strategies
Lecturer : Eunice Chu
Duration: 75hrs
Language: Cantonese
- Rebuild your knowledge foundation of HKFRSs and the most important topics
- Illustrate the concepts by past paper Q&A to increase practicing opportunities
- Offer tailor-made lecture notes that includes tables and flowcharts to improve your understanding and memory
- Consolidate your knowledge and brush up your exam techniques through exam focus past papers practicing
- Share strategies to maximize marks by better organize your answers and highlight key words
- Recommend the hot topics and the most current issues to focus on
Lecturer : Polly Lo
Duration: 60hrs
Language: English
- Tailor-made study notes with flow chat, decision making tree and summarise key points for students’ ease of understanding difficult concepts
- Exam focus training with extensive practice on M11 past exam questions and some final examination questions to polish students’ analytical skills and enhance students’ understanding of accounting concepts
- Explain complicated accounting concepts in simple and understandable terms
- Provide a final recap on HKICPA’s current hot topics as a revision
Module 12
Module 12
Lecturer : Mark Baines
Duration: 63hrs
Language: English
- On this course you will receive Mark's tailor-made notes, which are constantly updated for each and every exam sitting reflecting the latest hot topics, exam trends and syllabus changes
- These notes contain many examples, past exam questions and are the exact same high quality demanded by the Big4 firms - these exclusive notes are only available if you enrol on Mark's course
- Mark uses his own recommended exam solutions allowing students to better understand how to construct answers, score marks and pass QP M12 - leading to many of his students achieving the top prize wining awards
- The course is structured topic-by-topic combining education and revision phases providing the most efficient and effective learning needed to pass the QP M12 exam
- Mark's course not only follows the same high quality QP M12 course delivered at the Big4 firms, but also includes additional bonus tuition on difficult, technical and hotly tipped exam areas
Lecturer : Patrick Lui
Duration: 63hrs
Language: Cantonese
- Illustrate the corporate finance principles with real life examples to enhance student’s understanding
- Customized lecturing materials to cover the essential topics to assist students in taking the examination efficiently and effectively
- Go through selected past papers for practice during the lecture to let the students get familiar with the examination style of New QP
- Use trend analysis to focus on the important examinable areas with selected past papers from QP and other examinations that have a similar examination style with the New QP
- Highlight the common mistakes or misunderstandings normally made by the students and recommend proper examination strategies to handle the examination efficiently and effectively
Module 13
Module 13
Lecturer : Taky Lo
Duration: 78hrs
Language: Cantonese
- Explain all essential knowledge through study of the well-designed course materials, which comprise New QP LP, flowcharts, chapter summaries and acronym
- Practise voluminous M13/QPC past papers with you in order to familiarize with every essential exam technique required to pass M13, with special focus on hot topics released by the HKICPA
- Polish your analytical and application skills on lengthy case information to pass M13 in one-take
- Teach you how to predict which M13 areas may come up in your exam session
Lecturer : Polly Lo
Duration: 60hrs
Language: English
- Exam focused study note with flow chat or decision making tree to enhance students' concept knowledge
- Exam focus course with extensive practice on past exam questions to enhance students’ analytical skill especially on risk assessment questions
- Equip past exam questions from other professional body and final examination for students to practice the areas of which have been examined before
- Provide a final recap on HKICPA’s current hot topics as a revision
Module 14
Module 14
Lecturer : Angela Nip
Duration: 72hrs/ 55hrs
Language: Cantonese/ English
- Start with Education – Build up knowledge of tax principles through diagrams and tables supplemented with real life examples to facilitate students’ memory and understanding
- Interlocking with Revision – Practice on past paper right after each topic to guide students on how to tackle the examination questions
- Cover essential knowledge through tailor-made notes sorted by topics
- Highlight the key areas to facilitate preparation for the examination
- Highlight the common errors made by students, and teach students how to structure the answer so as to score marks in the examination
Lecturer : Pason Ngan
Duration: 72hrs
Language: Cantonese
- Build up essential tax knowledge through tailor-made exam-focused notes with extensive examples, flow charts and summary tables to illustrate complicated tax principles in an organised manner
- Reinforce tax knowledge and improve exam technique through extensive in-class practice of M14 / QPD / FE past papers
- Highlight common mistakes made by students and recommend strategies to tackle exams effectively
- Offer after-class support to answer questions and provide additional exercises
Course Materials
Course Materials
Our course includes the following materials: Course Notes, E-Learning Platform, Exam Strategies, Exam Kit, Regular Mocks, and Additional Mocks.
It is a matter of discretion for individual employers to recognise any qualification to which this course may lead.
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About HKICPA
About HKICPA
What is the New QP (New Qualification Programme)?
The New QP prepared and monitored by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) is specifically tailored to Hong Kong's business environment. It is synonymous with quality and a choice for students who seek to stand out among their peers. A professional qualification opens many otherwise closed doors.
The New QP breaks the traditional learning mode, exposing students to real business cases. It encourages students to think independently. In workshops, problems are presented which require effective and professional solutions. Emphasis is placed on demonstrating the ability to make professional decisions, contribute through teamwork and interact in a working group.
The New QP utilizes the practical business application of accounting, taxation, auditing and IT. Using proven training methods, it prepares you for a career as a competent and forward thinking accountant with a successful business career.
The New QP will comprise three progressive levels with 14 modules and a Capstone, i.e. Associate Level (10 modules), Professional Level (four modules) and Capstone. It offers alternative pathways and greater flexibility for students with different educational backgrounds, including sub-degree holders and non-accounting majors, to become CPAs. This could attract more students from other disciplines to join the accountancy profession which is important in developing a sustainable talent pool of accounting professionals.
Programme Structure
The New QP comprises the QP and the Capstone.
QP comprises of 4 modules:
The New QP provides world-class and comprehensive training to ensure that upon completion, the newly qualified CPAs will be equipped with the necessary technical knowledge, professional skills, values and ethics, and relevant practical experience to meet the needs of employers in today's work environment.
Module 11
Financial Reporting
Module 12
Business Finance
Module 13
Business Assurance
Module 14
Taxation
Workshop
There will be five full-day workshops, one at the introduction to the Professional Level and one for each Professional Module.
Students are required to meet the performance indicators of the workshop. Completion of the Introductory Workshop is a pre-requisite to start the Professional Modules.
Each full-day, eight-hour workshop, with one-hour meal break, is filled with active learning activities including case studies with workplace simulation, plenary discussions and team presentations to achieve the prescribed technical and enabling competence requirements. Workshops are usually conducted during Saturdays and Sundays. Each workshop is led by two workshop facilitators running a class size of around 24 students. All activities during the workshop class will be conducted in English.
The Capstone
The Capstone tests your ability to integrate knowledge and skills from any part of the QP module syllabuses and apply these across all fields of competency, demonstrating a level of skills appropriate to a professional practitioner.
For details, please refer to HKICPA website.
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Meet Our Lecturers
Kaplan Financial - Accountancy
Taky Lo
NEW QP, The Capstone, CPA Aust. Lecturer
MSc (A&F), CPA, CertIA (ACCA), CertIFR (ACCA)
Taky is the Programme Director of Kaplan Financial – Accountancy team in Hong Kong and is responsible for leading the lecture team and providing academic advice. He also leads the Qualification Framework project of Professional Diploma in Accountancy.
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Patrick Lui
NEW QP, The Capstone, CPA Aust. ACCA Lecturer
MBA, LLB, ACCA
Patrick Lui is an experienced financial tutor with over 16 years’ experience teaching accounting courses in tertiary institutions and providing exam-based training to college students. Understanding the weaknesses of students and able to guide students to
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Fanny Choi
NEW QP, The Capstone, ACCA, CPA Aust. Lecturer
MAcc, BComm, FCCA, CPA, CA, ASCPA
Fanny has over 12 years teaching experience of professional exam preparatory programmes. She has a strong accounting experiences from MNC listed company at managerial level. Before joining Kaplan, Fanny has worked extensively in accounting for a
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Mark Baines
NEW QP, The Capstone Lecturer
BA (Hons), FCCA
Mark qualified as a Chartered Accountant and is a senior lecturer with over 10 years’ experience lecturing at Kaplan Financial. He teaches towards the programs of NEW QP Module B and Final Examination. Mark has always been the preferred choice for Big 4
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Angela Nip
ACCA, NEW QP, The Capstone, CP LecturerMBA, FCCA, CPA
Angela is a taxation expert with solid experience in finance and corporate planning including global tax and transfer pricing planning in MNCs. Since joining Kaplan she has been teaching for over 17 years on exam-based training. She has been a HKICPA workshop facilitator and a QP Modules & Final Exam marker for many sessions.
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Polly Lo
NEW QP, The Capstone, CPA Aust. Lecturer
MFA, BBA(Hons), CPA
Polly primarily worked in a Big 4 firm in Hong Kong for 5 years, providing external audit assurance service to locally listed companies in the retail, manufacturing, and telecommunication business sectors. She joined Kaplan with her practical experience
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Eunice Chu
NEW QP Lecturer
MBA, FCCA, CPA, ISCA
Eunice Chu is an experienced lecturer in teaching professional accounting examination preparation courses, including QP and ACCA, for more than 20 years. She is able not only to explain difficult accounting concepts in simple terms but also to boost up examination skills of the students and enhance their chances of passing the examinations.
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Pason Ngan
New QP, CTA Lecturer
BBA(Hons), CPA
Pason Ngan is a Senior Tax Manager at one of the Big 4 firms, providing in-house tax technical support, training, and preparing external tax publications. With solid practical experience in Hong Kong and international tax, Pason focuses on essential tax knowledge and exam skills. He uses simple examples to explain complex tax principles, highlights common mistakes, and recommends effective exam strategies.
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