James Feng

English-taught courses

Four complete examination courses are delivered in English. Each one is recorded in full, follows the syllabus in order, and is organised around the way the exam actually asks you to think.

Course specifications and enrolment sit on the Chinese side of this site and on Bilibili Classroom. The interface around them is in Chinese; the teaching itself is in English throughout.

How the courses are built

Built around locating a rule, not memorising it

Candidates rarely fail because they have never seen a rule. They fail because they cannot reach it quickly enough, or because they apply it to the wrong facts. These courses spend as much time on where a rule sits in the framework and how to get to it under time pressure as they do on the rule itself. That is a trainable skill, and it is usually what separates a comfortable pass from a marginal one.

Standards taken apart line by line

Reporting and audit papers both assume you can work from the standard itself. The SBR course carries a complete line-by-line walkthrough of IFRS alongside the syllabus teaching, so the standard — not a summary of it — is what you end up using. The AA course does the same for the ISQM 1, ISQM 2 and ISA requirements the exam draws on.

Practised, not just explained

Two decades of audit, reporting and tax work sit behind the examples, so the courses use real structures — cross-border groups, reorganisations, property transactions — rather than textbook simplifications. Real scenarios are far better memory anchors, and they are closer to what the exam increasingly asks about.

Professional credentials

10 professional credentials across six jurisdictions — nine of them accounting or finance qualifications, plus a legal qualification. They were earned in the jurisdictions whose rules these courses teach, which is the point: the syllabus is not theory to me.

IPA and IFA have belonged to the same group since their 2014 merger into IPA Group, with mutually recognised membership — which is why both are held together.

Education

Background

Twenty years across corporate management and public practice, primarily in audit, financial reporting and tax. That work has run alongside teaching throughout: I have lectured on the HKICPA Qualification Programme for several years, and I produce and present the course library behind this site, which now covers IFRS, audit methodology and cross-border tax as well as exam preparation.

My own study path runs through the same papers I teach — ACCA, HKICPA, CICPA, AICPA and CIMA — so the shortcuts and the traps in the syllabus are ones I have been through personally rather than read about.

For training providers

Alongside course production I take on a limited number of teaching engagements each year:

• Course design and recording. Exam-preparation courses built from the syllabus up, recorded or delivered live.
• Live online delivery. Cohort teaching, revision intensives and past-paper walkthroughs, scheduled to your time zone.
• On-site training. Delivered at your premises, for candidate cohorts or in-house finance teams.
• Corporate and professional-body sessions. IFRS application, audit methodology and cross-border tax — for teams rather than candidates.

Teaching languages. English for ACCA and US CPA subjects; Mandarin for HKICPA and CICPA preparation. IFRS, audit methodology and cross-border tax can be delivered in either language.

Engagement format. Delivered online worldwide · on-site engagements available.

If you are looking for an instructor for a specific paper or cohort, write with the subject, the size of the group, the format and the dates, and I will say honestly whether it is something I can do well.