CAP2 Summer 2026 is complete.
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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2026 exam calendar
FAE is the next exam window
CAP2 Summer 2026 is complete. FAE Core starts on 11 August, with electives on 13 August, so this is now the key revision window for Core plus your chosen elective.
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CAP2 Summer 2026
All four CAP2 papers ran from 22-26 June.
| Subject | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| Tax | 22 June | Monday |
| Audit | 23 June | Tuesday |
| SFMA | 25 June | Thursday |
| Financial Reporting | 26 June | Friday |
FAE Summer 2026
Core is on 11 August; all electives are on 13 August.
| Subject | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| FAE Core | 11 August | Tuesday |
| Elective: Advanced Audit & Assurance | 13 August | Thursday |
| Elective: Advisory | 13 August | Thursday |
| Elective: Advanced Tax ROI & NI | 13 August | Thursday |
| Elective: Financial Services | 13 August | Thursday |
| Elective: Public Sector | 13 August | Thursday |
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.
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.
Each full pack is €105. Add three FAE full packs and the cart automatically brings the total to €290.
FAE Core
Strategy, risk, governance, ethics, sustainability, data, AI, and technology for integrated FAE cases.
FAE Advanced Financial Reporting
Advanced IFRS, groups, journals, disclosures, framework choice, and integrated case reporting issues.
FAE Advanced Auditing & Assurance
Advanced audit judgement, reporting, ethics, fraud, evidence, and non-audit engagements.
FAE Advanced Taxation (ROI)
Advanced ROI tax planning for businesses, groups, restructures, VAT, succession, and Revenue interventions.
FAE Financial Services
Banking, lending, credit risk, funds, trade finance, regulation, ESG, and treasury products.
FAE Advisory
International strategy, M&A, finance, performance, data, pricing, leadership, and change.
CAP2 Notes
CAP2 Summer 2026 is complete. Digital notes remain available for review, repeat planning, or preparing ahead across Tax, Financial Reporting, Auditing & Assurance, and SFMA.
If you still need CAP2 materials for review or future planning, digital access is delivered instantly. Printed packs remain listed for students planning ahead.
CAP2 Auditing & Assurance
Audit risk, evidence, procedures, controls, ethics, reporting, and exam-ready decision frameworks.
CAP2 Summer 2026 is complete. Digital notes remain available instantly.
CAP2 Financial Reporting
IFRS standards, journals, disclosure, cash flows, consolidations, and financial statement preparation.
CAP2 Summer 2026 is complete. Digital notes remain available instantly.
CAP2 SFMA
Strategic finance, investment appraisal, valuation, treasury, costing, budgeting, variances, and performance.
CAP2 Summer 2026 is complete. Digital notes remain available instantly.
CAP2 Tax (ROI)
ROI tax notes covering income tax, corporation tax, CGT, CAT, VAT, stamp duty, and compliance.
CAP2 Summer 2026 is complete. Digital notes remain available instantly.
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 — 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 — 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 — 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.
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FAE bundle pricing
For students taking more than one FAE subject, the full module bundles can be combined.
CAP2 post-sitting digital pricing
CAP2 Summer 2026 is complete. Digital access remains available instantly for review, repeat planning, or preparing ahead.
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.
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