CAI FAE & CAP2 Study Notes

Study notes built for CAP2 and FAE exams

Focused revision notes for CAI FAE and CAP2 candidates — comprehensive syllabus coverage, written for exam technique, structured for how you actually apply knowledge under exam conditions.

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Did you know?

Repeating CAP2 or FAE can delay far more than an exam result.

If a failed sitting pushes qualification back by a year, the real cost is the qualified salary step-up you have deferred. For accountants, that is the number that matters.

The 2025 Chartered Accountants Ireland Leinster Society and Barden Salary Survey reports an average newly qualified salary package of €72,450, and an average basic salary of €66,998. Against a typical training salary of €33k-€36k, that is a €36k-€39k package uplift waiting on the other side of qualification. Even using basic salary alone, the uplift is roughly €31k-€34k.

Deferred package uplift €36k-€39k
Newly qualified basic salary €66,998
Industry & commerce 2025 €77,522
Financial services 2025 €72,155
Practice 2025 €53,778

Source: Chartered Accountants Ireland Leinster Society and Barden Salary Survey 2025.

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FAE Notes

Comprehensive notes for the Final Admitting Examination, covering Core and all Elective papers.

Print + digital bundles FAE full pack pricing

Each full pack is €115. Add three FAE full packs and the cart automatically brings the total to €300.

1 pack€115 2 packs€230 3 packs€300
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FAE Core

Strategy, risk, governance, ethics, sustainability, data, AI, and technology for integrated FAE cases.

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FAE Advanced Financial Reporting

Advanced IFRS, groups, journals, disclosures, framework choice, and integrated case reporting issues.

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FAE Advanced Auditing & Assurance

Advanced audit judgement, reporting, ethics, fraud, evidence, and non-audit engagements.

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FAE Advanced Taxation (ROI)

Advanced ROI tax planning for businesses, groups, restructures, VAT, succession, and Revenue interventions.

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FAE Financial Services

Banking, lending, credit risk, funds, trade finance, regulation, ESG, and treasury products.

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FAE Advisory

International strategy, M&A, finance, performance, data, pricing, leadership, and change.

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CAP2 Notes

Focused notes for the CAP2 stage, covering the core exam subjects.

Print + digital bundles CAP2 full set pricing

Each full pack is €105. Multi-set pricing applies automatically as you add CAP2 print + digital packs.

1 set€105 2 sets€200 3 sets€270 4 sets€300
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CAP2 Auditing & Assurance

Audit risk, evidence, procedures, controls, ethics, reporting, and exam-ready decision frameworks.

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CAP2 Financial Reporting

IFRS standards, journals, disclosure, cash flows, consolidations, and financial statement preparation.

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CAP2 SFMA

Strategic finance, investment appraisal, valuation, treasury, costing, budgeting, variances, and performance.

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CAP2 Tax (ROI)

ROI tax notes covering income tax, corporation tax, CGT, CAT, VAT, stamp duty, and compliance.

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What You Get

How the notes work

Each subject is built as a three-Part system: learn the topic, master the competency, then execute under exam conditions.

We looked seriously at building ACA Notes as a short 50–100 page revision product. The problem is that CAP2 and FAE are not college exams. They are professional examinations, and for most students they are the most demanding exams they will sit.

So the aim was not to make the shortest possible notes. It was to build distilled, syllabus-complete material with enough depth to learn properly, enough structure to revise efficiently, and enough exam intelligence to understand how the Institute actually tests the subject.

Part C

Part C — Long-form Notes

The full subject spine. Built by working through the syllabus topic by topic, distilling the technical material into structured notes, and mapping each area back to the published competency statement. This is where students learn the module properly, without relying on inherited summaries or selective coverage.

Part B

Part B — Mastery Notes

The exam-shaped layer. Built from the competency statement and examiner feedback, with each note focused on what the student must be able to demonstrate. Part B turns the long-form material into scoring demands: what the examiner is looking for, where students lose marks, and how to revise each competency in the closing weeks.

Part A

Part A — Exam Desk

The final toolkit. Built from recurring exam tasks, calculation patterns, decision routes, and common failure points. Depending on the subject, it includes formula cards, decision frameworks, answer skeletons, reference cards, integration maps, disclosure checklists, procedure cards, and fast lookup tools designed for final revision and exam execution.

Each pack is made up of three parts. The three are not duplicates. Part C teaches the topic. Part B turns it into competency language. Part A turns it into an exam move. That is the system behind every ACA Notes pack.

Bundle Pricing

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FAE bundle pricing

For students taking more than one FAE subject, the full module bundles can be combined.

2 full module bundles Two print + digital FAE packs
€230
3 full module bundles Further discount for three FAE packs
€300

CAP2 bundle pricing

CAP2 students can combine full print + digital sets across the four CAP2 subjects.

2 full sets Two print + digital CAP2 packs
€200
3 full sets Three print + digital CAP2 packs
€270
All 4 sets Best value across all CAP2 packs
€300

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Why ACA Notes

Why ACA Notes

Built from the exam backwards

Most notes start with content and stop there. ACA Notes starts with the exam: the competency statement, the way requirements are asked, the mistakes students make, and the kind of answer that actually scores. The result is not just subject coverage. It is coverage converted into exam use.

Three layers, not one long document

A long set of notes can teach a topic, but it cannot do every job. That is why each pack is split into Part C, Part B, and Part A: learn the subject, master the competency, then execute the exam move. You are not left to build that structure yourself in the final weeks.

Written for application, not passive reading

The packs are designed around the verbs that matter: advise, evaluate, recommend, calculate, justify, discuss. Concepts are explained, but always with the next question in mind: how will this appear in a case, calculation, discussion, or recommendation?

Detailed enough to trust, structured enough to revise

The aim is not to give you the shortest possible notes. It is to give you notes you can trust. Long-form coverage sits in Part C; sharper revision sits in Part B; fast exam tools sit in Part A. Depth where you need it, compression where it helps.

Substantial samples before you buy

You should be able to inspect the material before paying for it. Samples show the structure, tone, density, and level of detail so you can decide whether the pack fits how you study.

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