HKICPA New Qualification Programme (New QP)
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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.
Course Details
Module 11
Module 11
Lecturer : Polly Lo
Duration: 83 hrs/ 82 hrs
Language: Cantonese/English
- Tailor-made study notes with flow charts, decision-making trees 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
- Conduct dedicated sessions to thoroughly review mock exam papers, helping students identify common pitfalls and develop effective strategies for tackling exam questions
- Bridge theory and practice with case studies from industry examples, helping you apply accounting concepts to actual business scenarios
- 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: 63 hrs
Language: English
- On this course you will receive Mark's famous tailor-made notes, which are constantly updated for each exam sitting reflecting the latest hot topics, exam trends and syllabus changes
- These notes contain many examples, the most important past exam questions and are the 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-winning awards
- The course is structured topic-by-topic combining education and revision phases providing the most efficient and effective learning needed to build up your knowledge and 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 : Harris Lui
Duration: 63 hrs
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: 81 hrs / 75 hrs
Language: Cantonese/ English
- Explain all essential knowledge through study of the well-designed course materials, which comprise 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 list released by the HKICPA
- Polish your analytical and application skills on lengthy case information to pass M13 in one-take
- Help you predict which M13 particular areas under the hot topics list may come up in your exam session
- Provide useful final revision recap course material to summarise all important answering flows and key terms at one glance
Module 14
Module 14
Lecturer : Angela Nip
Duration: 75 hrs
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: 75 hrs
Language: Mandarin
- Build up essential tax knowledge through tailor-made exam-focused notes with extensive examples, flow charts and summary tables to illustrate complicated tax concepts in an organized 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 on-going after-class support to answer questions and provide additional guidance
Course Materials
Course Materials
Our course includes the following printable materials: Course Notes, E-Learning Platform, Exam Strategies, Exam Kit, Regular Mocks, and Additional Mocks. You can download the notes from eLearning platform and print them to fit your needs. These customized materials cover key topics that help you study efficiently.
It is a matter of discretion for individual employers to recognize 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
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Taky Lo
NEW QP, The Capstone, CPA Aust. Lecturer
MSc (A&F), FCCA, FCPA, FCPA (Aust.)
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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Harris Lui
NEW QP, The Capstone, CPA Aust. Lecturer
MBA, LLB, ACCA
Harris Lui is an experienced financial tutor with over 20 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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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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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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