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FAE Advisory Study Notes

Advisory notes for international strategy, M&A, finance, performance, pricing, data, leadership, and change.

Printed notes Digital access available Tracked shipping Last updated May 2026

What's included

This pack is built for the commercial judgement expected in FAE Advisory. It helps students evaluate opportunities, structure recommendations, and connect financial analysis with implementation risk.

  • Covers international expansion, strategy, M&A, finance, treasury, pricing, performance, and leadership.
  • Includes calculation support and recommendation structures.
  • Built around advisory verbs: advise, evaluate, recommend, justify.
  • Connects financial and non-financial factors in case answers.
  • Available in printed format, with digital access where selected.

Coverage areas

International Expansion & StrategyM&A, Investment Appraisal & FinanceTreasury, Pricing & PerformanceData, Leadership, Change & Stakeholders

What's inside the pack.

Each ACA Notes module is split into three practical parts. Part C teaches the subject, Part B turns it into exam-ready competency notes, and Part A gives you the tools for final revision and exam execution.

Part C - Long-form Notes

Part C — Learn the subject

International expansion, M&A, finance, treasury, pricing, data, performance, leadership, and change are taught as connected advisory work. Students learn how to evaluate opportunities commercially, not just describe models.

  • Teaches strategy, M&A, finance, treasury, pricing, performance, data, leadership, and change as connected advisory work.
  • Explains how to evaluate commercial opportunities rather than simply describe models.
  • Builds depth for both calculation and recommendation questions.
Part B - Mastery Notes

Part B — Turn knowledge into exam judgement

The material is reorganised around advisory judgement: whether to enter a market, acquire a business, raise finance, manage FX or interest-rate risk, change pricing, improve performance, or lead implementation.

  • Focuses on the advisory decisions behind market entry, acquisitions, finance, risk, pricing, and implementation.
  • Turns technical material into advise, evaluate, recommend, and justify responses.
  • Connects financial and non-financial consequences.
Part A - Exam Desk

Part A — Execute under exam conditions

The tools focus on advisory execution: investment appraisal routes, acquisition evaluation skeletons, finance-source decision frameworks, FX and interest-rate hedge routes, pricing and transfer-pricing structures, KPI design, and leadership/change response skeletons.

  • Includes investment appraisal, acquisition, finance-source, hedge, pricing, KPI, and change skeletons.
  • Provides calculation routes and recommendation structures.
  • Supports concise advisory conclusions under exam pressure.

See the Notes

We provide a substantial free sample — approximately 10% of the full notes, typically 30–45 pages — so you can review the structure, tone, and depth before purchasing.

What Students Say

I actually enjoyed Advisory, but I found it hard to know what a strong answer was supposed to look like. These notes helped a lot with that. They made topics like strategy, investment decisions, expansion and performance measurement feel more practical and easier to apply.

Aoife C. · FAE Advisory · Summer 2025

What helped me most was that the notes pushed me to think commercially. With Advisory, it is easy to stay too theoretical, but these made me focus more on the business angle and what the recommendation should actually be based on.

Neil N. · FAE Advisory · Summer 2025

I liked these because they matched the way Advisory works as a paper. It is not just about knowing a topic, it is about using judgment. The notes really helped me get better at pulling together the financial, strategic and operational sides of a scenario.

Leanne W. · FAE Advisory · Summer 2024

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