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Knowledge, Skills and Integration

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• Key dates
• Planners
• Student inductions
• Enrol or defer a student
• Student support

Key dates

This month

• 28 November | Term 4 Knowledge and Skills results

Knowledge

• 19 November | Term 4 Reporting and Performance 1 final assessment
• 19 November | Term 4 Assurance final assessment
• 20 November | Term 4 Taxation final assessment
• 20 November | Term 4 Business Management and Finance final assessment
• 21 November | Term 4 Business Law final assessment

Skills

• 4 November | Term 4 Data Risk and Technology assessment 2 submission
• 4 November | Term 4 Data Analytics and Insights assessment submission
• 5 November | Term 4 Reporting and Performance 2 final assessment
• 11 November | Term Advanced Taxation final assessment
• 12 November | Term 4 Advanced Assurance final assessment
• 13 November | Term 4 Corporate Finance and Modelling final assessment
• 14 November | Term 4 Advanced Reporting and Performance final assessment

Integration

• 19 November | Term 4 Case Study final assessment
• 20 November | Term 4 Professional Ethics final assessment

Next month

Knowledge

• No dates for this month.

Skills

• No dates for this month

Integration

• No dates for this month

Planners

Take a look at the term ahead

Get a closer look at your student's schedule – when they’ll be in workshops, due to sit mocks or final assessments.

View the 2024 terms planner

View the 2025-26 Knowledge terms planner

View the 2025-26 Skills terms planner

View the 2025-26 Integration terms planner

We’ve included our recommended study leave in the detailed terms planners above, but as always, this is at your discretion. We have also updated our study leave guidance on icas.com.

Take a look at the year ahead

Get a view of the whole year for each level.

Please refer to the planner footnotes for additional information.

Note, these dates are subject to change. Instead of downloading the planners, we suggest bookmarking this page to refer to.

Take a look to the future

Get a longer term view of your student's learning journey and more certainty to plan ahead.

View the 2024 planner

View the 2025-26 planner

Enrol or defer a student

If you need to enrol or defer a student from an upcoming course, please let us know by the deadline below.

Knowledge and Skills

• Enrolment deadline for Term 4 2024 - 9 August 2024
• Deferral deadline for Term 4 2024 - 20 September 2024
• Enrolment deadline for Term 1 2025 - 5 December 2024
• Deferral deadline for Term 1 2025 - 16 January 2025

Integration

• Enrolment deadline for Term 4 2024 - 11 July 2024
• Deferral deadline for Term 4 2024 - 22 August 2024
• Enrolment deadline for Term 2 2025 - 28 February 2025
• Deferral deadline for Term 2 2025 - 11 April 2025

Student support

Guide to Knowledge and Skills for employers

Learn how students should prepare for workshops, where they can find workshop details and an example study timetable for each course.

View the Guide to Knowledge and Skills for employers

Assessments, results and retake

Enrolment

Students are automatically enrolled to Knowledge, Skills or Integration assessments when they enrol in a course.

If they need to retake an assessment, students must self-enrol using the retake support and assessment form sent to their ICAS email following results.

Results

Your student's assessment results are published in the ATO Portal.

If you're a training principal or counselling member, you can also view the overall pass rate for each assessment.

Retake support

To support students with their next attempt, they can sign-up and purchase our retake services.

Test of Competence and Test of Professional Skills

Yearly planners

Take a look at the remaining Test of Competence and Test of Professional Skills assessment planner:

View the assessment planner

Students must self-enrol for any final Test of Competence and Test of Professional Skills assessments.

Key dates

This month

Next month

• 3 December | TPS | December assessment booking deadline
• 10 December | TPS | Financial Reporting final assessment
• 12 December | TPS | Assurance and Data final assessment