CPA Canada Practice Update Hub

Choose a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA Canada) Core, elective, or Common Final Examination (CFE) route and request a Securities Prep practice update.

Use this hub if your target is the Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant path rather than the U.S. Certified Public Accountant exam. CPA Canada practice is not live in Securities Prep yet, but these pages let you identify the module or Common Final Examination (CFE) day you care about and request an exact update.

Mastery Exam Prep is independent exam-prep software. These pages are practice-routing and demand-signal pages; they do not provide membership, admission, transcript, provincial-body, or licensure advice.

CPA Canada pages

CPA Canada routePageWhat the page helps clarify
Common coreCore 1Financial-reporting, assurance, tax, finance, and governance foundations before later modules.
Common coreCore 2Strategy, governance, risk, performance, finance, and management-accounting judgment.
ElectiveAssuranceAudit and assurance planning, evidence, reporting, ethics, and professional judgment.
ElectiveTaxationCanadian tax compliance and planning practice at a candidate-preparation level.
ElectiveFinanceValuation, financing, investment, risk, and decision-analysis practice.
ElectivePerformance ManagementStrategy, governance, cost, performance measures, and operating decisions.
CFECFE Day 1Capstone-linked case reasoning, business issues, communication, and role clarity.
CFECFE Day 2Long-case role depth plus integrated common competencies.
CFECFE Day 3Multiple shorter cases, breadth coverage, time management, and issue triage.

How to use these pages

If you are already in the CPA Professional Education Program (PEP), open the page that matches your current module or CFE day and use the update form there. If you are comparing Canadian and U.S. accounting exam practice, keep the two routes separate: U.S. CPA section practice is live today, while CPA Canada pages are currently for update requests and route clarity.

In this section

  • CPA Canada Core 1 Practice Update
    Review CPA Canada Core 1 route scope for foundational financial reporting, assurance, tax, finance, governance, and professional judgment, and request a Securities Prep practice update.
    • CPA Canada Core 2 Practice Update
      Review CPA Canada Core 2 route scope for strategy, governance, risk, performance, finance, and management-accounting judgment, and request a Securities Prep practice update.
      • CPA Canada Assurance Practice Update
        Review CPA Canada Assurance elective scope for audit planning, risk assessment, evidence, reporting, ethics, and professional judgment, and request a Securities Prep practice update.
        • CPA Canada Taxation Practice Update
          Review CPA Canada Taxation elective scope for Canadian tax compliance, planning judgment, individual and business tax issues, and professional communication, and request a Securities Prep practice update.
          • CPA Canada Finance Practice Update
            Review CPA Canada Finance elective scope for valuation, financing, capital budgeting, risk, investment decisions, and recommendation judgment, and request a Securities Prep practice update.
            • CPA Canada Performance Management Update
              Review CPA Canada Performance Management elective scope for strategy, governance, cost behavior, performance measures, controls, and operating decisions, and request a Securities Prep practice update.
              • CPA Canada CFE Day 1 Practice Update
                Review CPA Canada Common Final Examination (CFE) Day 1 scope for case issue identification, strategic analysis, communication, and Capstone-linked reasoning, and request a Securities Prep practice update.
                • CPA Canada CFE Day 2 Practice Update
                  Review CPA Canada Common Final Examination (CFE) Day 2 scope for long-case role depth, integrated competencies, issue triage, and professional judgment, and request a Securities Prep practice update.
                  • CPA Canada CFE Day 3 Practice Update
                    Review CPA Canada Common Final Examination (CFE) Day 3 scope for shorter multi-competency cases, breadth coverage, time pressure, and issue triage, and request a Securities Prep practice update.
                    Revised on Tuesday, May 12, 2026