How do I view my training material?
Login using the username and password you selected when you registered. Then click on My Training from the left hand menu. See recover password if you have forgotten your password or username. To check the accounts that you have access to and their expiry date click on the My Account link from the left hand menu. You can also change your personal information (email, address, company name and password) via the My Account page.

How do I build an effective study plan?
We recommend that you combine our training material with the CII or ifs study text to provide a good solid study plan. This will give you the best possible variety and range of training material to make your studies easier, create targets and greatly improve your chances of exam success.

The CII themselves quite rightly say that you should study more widely than just their own material. They do stress that their study text is only based on the syllabus and is not guaranteed to provide ALL the answers to questions you might be examined on. It is worth therefore, where you can, reading around the subject you are studying for example, by looking at relevant articles in the financial press.

Our text based online courses (available for many exams) provide an ideal source of study material, our diploma courses include audiovisual presentations to explain key syllabus areas. Each chapter is accompanied by revision questions. There are final assessments and a case study with accompanying questions. Their combined use will contribute towards a good proportion of your study time.

It is vital that you make effective use of your time. As well as reading about a subject, you need to constantly monitor what you have learned. Our assessment based material can be especially helpful in this respect. By taking the 50 question assessments at regular intervals (from the subject knowledge questions/assessment package) you can measure your performance on an ongoing basis. The answers and explanations (in certain areas) also provide an effective revision tool. We also recommend that you build in time after taking all the 50 question assessments (at least once) to take short randomly generated questions from the full question bank.

Our Practice Exam Package products for the Diploma and Advanced Diploma will also help with your technique. We recommend that the mock papers are completed towards the end of your revision program but allow enough time to take on board comments from our marker on your assessor marked mock paper. The 3 case studies cover key syllabus areas and can be slotted into your study plan at regular intervals.

How do I view my CPD certificate or any marked results?
Click on the CPD certificate link from the left hand menu when you are logged in. This displays the training you have taken, the CPD time allocated and your average result per assessment. To view any self-marked or assessor marked papers (from the practice exam packages) click on My Account from the left hand menu.

What format is the training material provided in?
All material is provided online only with access provided 24/7 through online methods. No printed copies of the material are supplied as the site is structured to provide easy to view online access at competitive prices. This is also an environmentally friendly way of delivering the training material.

What suggestions do you have on how best to use the assessment & subject knowledge questions?
Once you have read your study text immediately take the first assessment. This will give you a good idea of how much further study you need to do both in terms of subject matter and the detail of its content.

Next, study the areas you performed poorly on. Follow this up with a further assessment to see whether your score has improved paying particular attention to the syllabus areas you did not do so well with the first assessment. Highlight any further areas required for revision that crop up in the second assessment and return to your revision of the syllabus. Repeat this exercise as often as you need until your scores improve to the desired standard. By building the assessments into your study plan you will introduce some variety and challenge into your studies.

After taking all the individual assessments at least once (you can take as often as you like), I suggest you then use the random assessment creation features to create short assessments, it is the same question bank but does mean you are not seeing the same assessments every time.

All results are recorded on your CPD certificate so you can view and print this at any time to check on your progress and if required present to your boss to demonstrate your progress.

Customer comments:
“In addition to detailed study of the course book and exam guides, I tended to go through each bank of wizard questions in turn until I achieved very high marks and then cemented this with the random question games. It gave the opportunity to practice repeatedly until I consistently obtained top marks. It was possible to work through questions in any spare 10 minutes.”

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What training material is available?
We provide a vast range of material. The full list is available by clicking on the "Buy Account" image below. In addition we also provide an overview in our point and click quick guide. This is located on the left near the bottom of the page. Simply run your curser over the headings to open up a summary and then click on the images for more details. Please contact us if we do not have what you are looking for as we might be able to help, we can also normally quote for writing customised material for your firm.

When is the website content updated?
Our Diploma and Advanced Diploma material is updated shortly after the CII issue their updated text books for the new tax year. Updates for the Certificate, CeFA and CeMAP material will be in place by the 1st September when the new syllabus takes effect.

NOTE the CII use this basis for the Certificate exam:

• The tax year 2009/2010 will be examined until 31 August 2010
• The tax year 2010/2011 will be examined from 1 September 2010 until 31 August 20011.

Do I always get access to the most up to date material available?
Yes, when we update the material all those with access automatically get the most up to date material at no additional cost.