A Level Accounting Tutoring, for Every Board
A Level Accounting looks like arithmetic and is marked like a profession: a statement is wrong if one adjustment is missed, and the highest-tariff questions ask the student to judge what the figures mean for a business, its owners or its lenders. AQA, Pearson Edexcel and Cambridge International test the same discipline in very different shapes, so preparation has to follow the board.
Short answer
A Level Accounting is offered online, one-to-one.
A private lesson runs 90 minutes and starts at USD 95 per lesson; lessons are booked singly or in packages.
No group class runs for this exam.
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- Structure shown for AQA, Pearson Edexcel, Cambridge International
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How A Level Accounting is assessed, board by board
3 awarding bodies examine this subject, and they do not examine it the same way: different papers, different weightings, different practical arrangements. Find your board — it is printed on your school's timetable and on past papers — and read that block. Nothing on this page describes one board's paper as though it applied to all of them.
AQA
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1 — Sections 1–8 and 14–18 of the subject content | 50% | 3 hours | 120 marks | multiple choice, short answer, structured questions and extended response |
| Paper 2 — Sections 1–3, 8–13 and 17–18 of the subject content | 50% | 3 hours | 120 marks | multiple choice, short answer, structured questions and extended response |
- Two three-hour papers, each with the same three-section shape: 30 marks of short answers, 40 of structured questions and 50 of extended answers. Endurance is part of what is being tested.
Checked on 22 September 2026
Pearson Edexcel
Pearson Edexcel International A Level Accounting (YAC11)
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1: The Accounting System and Costing | 50% | 3 hours | 200 marks | structured questions and calculations |
| Unit 2: Corporate and Management Accounting | 50% | 3 hours | 200 marks | structured questions and calculations |
- This is a modular qualification: units are sat in January, June and October, can be taken in stages, and can be re-sat, with the best result counting. That changes how a two-year plan is built — and it is the main reason a Pearson student and a Cambridge student in the same class need different revision schedules.
Checked on 22 September 2026
Cambridge International
Cambridge International AS & A Level Accounting (9706)
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1: Multiple Choice | 14% | 1 hour | 30 marks | multiple choice |
| Paper 2: Fundamentals of Accounting | 36% | 1 hour 45 min | 90 marks | structured questions and calculations |
| Paper 3: Financial Accounting | 30% | 1 hour 30 min | 75 marks | structured questions and calculations |
| Paper 4: Cost and Management Accounting | 20% | 1 hour | 50 marks | structured questions and calculations |
- OCR does not award A Level Accounting, so the realistic choice is between AQA’s two three-hour papers, Pearson’s two 200-mark units and Cambridge’s four shorter papers. They test the same discipline on very different timings.
Checked on 22 September 2026
Specifications are revised periodically. Each block links to the specification it was read from and gives the date it was checked; if your school has moved to a newer specification, that document takes precedence.
What A Level Accounting covers
The syllabus areas most boards share. Which ones appear, in what order and on which paper differs by board and by specification code — your own specification is the final word. Topic names are left in English, as they appear on the paper.
Financial Accounting
Double-entry bookkeeping and the accounting cycle · Preparing income statements and balance sheets · Depreciation methods · Company accounts and partnership accounting
Management Accounting
Cost classification: fixed, variable, direct · Break-even analysis and marginal costing · Budget preparation and variance analysis · Investment appraisal: NPV, IRR, payback
Where A Level Accounting marks are usually lost
Losing the thread in year-end adjustments
Year-end questions stack adjustments — accruals, prepayments, depreciation, irrecoverable debts, inventory valuation — and one missed or double-counted item flows through to the profit, the capital and the statement of financial position. Marks are lost less on the format than on the working: a student who neither shows nor labels workings leaves the examiner nothing to credit when the final figure is wrong.
Calculating the ratio and stopping there
Ratio and investment-appraisal questions usually end with a written part: explain what the current ratio shows, or advise whether a project should go ahead. Students who are quick with numbers often write one line here, or restate the figure in words. The marks reward interpretation in context — a comparison with last year or a competitor, a named cause, and a decision supported by the figures and by non-financial factors.
Treating standards and ethics as an afterthought
Every board builds in the regulatory and ethical side of accounting: Cambridge lists specific International Accounting Standards, Pearson requires their terminology, and AQA gives ethical considerations a section of its own. A student who has revised only double entry meets a question on why an accountant should not overstate inventory, or how a standard treats an impairment, and answers from common sense. These answers need the standards’ own principles.
How we teach A Level Accounting
A tutor teaches accounting from the double-entry model outwards, because most errors in final accounts begin with a misunderstanding of what a debit or a credit records. Each topic — partnership changes, incomplete records, company accounts, budgeting, marginal and standard costing, investment appraisal — is practised first untimed, with workings laid out in one consistent style, then against the clock in the board’s own format: AQA’s long mixed papers, Pearson’s questions built on a resource booklet with optional choices, or Cambridge’s separate multiple-choice, financial and management papers. Marked past-paper answers show where a student loses time and which adjustments they habitually forget. Written evaluation is practised every week, and short answers are rewritten until they reach a decision the figures support.
Your starting point is reviewed before the study plan is finalised. The exact method depends on the programme and is agreed on the intro call — for some students that means a timed section, for others it means reading a recent score report or a piece of marked work. We will tell you which applies to you before you book anything, rather than describing a process here that may not be the one you get.
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