CPA Licensure Prep: Special Topics in Accounting

A wide-ranging closing course

This intermediate course from the University of California, Santa Barbara gathers topics that do not fit neatly into the other parts of the CPA licensure preparation series. It draws on economics, cost accounting and corporate finance, so it rewards learners who are comfortable moving between disciplines.

Connecting the threads

The useful way in is to look for the common thread: how economic reasoning informs cost decisions, and how those decisions feed into corporate reporting. Working through that link makes the separate topics easier to remember and to apply in case-style questions.

How to study it

• Keep a running map that links each topic to the core statements.
• Revisit cost accounting concepts from any managerial course you have taken.
• Practise short applied problems rather than reading straight through.