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Every paper is taught inside a real business, with real numbers and real decisions you have to make. It is how the exam tests you, and it is why the theory sticks.

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  • Thirteen papers, sat in order, mapped back from your exam date
  • Every course, every exercise and every workbook, free forever
  • No card, no trial clock, no locked lessons
The Clevernest Management Accounting hub: eight courses in exam order with progress, XP and stars, the always-open question bank, the course workbook and the Alma Roasters case study
+120 XP 7-day streak
The same course on a phone: Mateo introduces the Alma Roasters case in a chat, with reply options and the XP counter
The whole qualification

Thirteen papers. One clear path.

Your exams laid out in the order you sit them. Open a paper to work through its courses, then prove it in the question bank.

A founder talking through how her business is structured and governed
BT
Business & Technology
Business purpose, structure, people and ethics
10 coursesLive
A roastery owner working through next year's budget
MA
Management Accounting
Costing, budgeting and performance
8 coursesLive
Working through the double entry behind a furniture maker's accounts
FA
Financial Accounting
Double entry and financial statements
Applied Knowledge
Coming soon
A discussion about the law around a business agreement
LW
Corporate & Business Law
Contracts, companies and the law around business
Applied Skills
Coming soon
A team looking at how the business performs
PM
Performance Management
The tools to cost, decide and perform
Applied Skills
Coming soon
Working through the UK tax system with a client
TX
Taxation
Income, corporation and capital taxes
Applied Skills
Coming soon
A finance team talking through the numbers they report
FR
Financial Reporting
Preparing and analysing full IFRS accounts
Applied Skills
Coming soon
Auditors checking a client's records on the shelves
AA
Audit & Assurance
How a real audit works, start to finish
Applied Skills
Coming soon
Finance professionals weighing up an investment decision
FM
Financial Management
Investment, financing and dividend decisions
Applied Skills
Coming soon
A leadership team working through a strategic decision
SBL
Strategic Business Leader
Strategy and leadership in one big case exam
Strategic Professional
Coming soon
Explaining a reporting judgement to a group of investors
SBR
Strategic Business Reporting
Explaining reporting judgements to investors
Strategic Professional
Coming soon
A mentor and a younger professional talking through career options
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Options: choose two
AFM, APM, ATX or AAA, picked to fit your career
Strategic Professional
Coming soon
The Clevernest difference

You don't study ACCA. You run a business.

Every topic lives inside a real company with real numbers and real decisions. You meet the people, read the situation, and make the call, so the theory sticks because you used it.

  1. 1
    Meet the business.Mateo runs Alma Roasters and cannot say what a single bag of coffee costs to make. You are on the roastery floor with him.
  2. 2
    Meet the numbers.A shoebox of receipts, messy and incomplete, exactly like the exam and exactly like the job.
  3. 3
    Make the call.Choose, get instant feedback, and see why the right answer is right.
Mateo Reyes weighing beans at Alma Roasters Case study · Alma Roasters
Mateo needs the cost of one bag of coffee. Which of these is not part of its prime cost?
The green coffee beans (direct material)
The roaster operator's wages (direct labour)
The rent on the roastery arch (a production overhead)
Hands on, start to finish

You do it. You don't just watch it.

Every lesson is built from things you touch, drag, sort and solve. No passive video walls, no wall of text, just one interaction after another.

Sort & sequence

Put steps, entries and events into the order that actually works.

Classify

Drag each item into the right bucket and feel the categories click.

Match pairs

Connect terms to meanings, causes to effects, ratios to results.

Spreadsheet drills

Work real figures in a live grid, the way you will on the job.

True or false

Fast confidence checks that catch the misconceptions early.

Scenario quiz

Multiple choice framed inside the case, never in a vacuum.

Flip cards

Flip to test recall, then flip back to lock the idea in.

Label & hotspot

Point to the right part of a statement, chart or diagram.

Built for the whole journey

A real study platform, not a video library.

Plan the work, drill the exam and watch your progress pay out, all in one place. This is the actual app, exactly as it runs today.

The Clevernest BT exam hub: ten courses in exam order, the always-open question bank, the course workbook and the study plan
Progress

XP, streaks and levels

Every lesson and every question pays XP and feeds your streak, so showing up daily becomes the easy part.

Plan

Mapped to your exam date

Book your sitting and the plan works backwards from it. You always know exactly what this week's job is.

Drill

A question bank that never closes

Exam-style questions in a chat, marked the instant you answer, with the reason every time. A premium upgrade, open to take from day one.

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A workbook with every course

Download the case's numbers, work them yourself and keep the file for the day job.

The question bank · Premium

In the end, it all comes down to the exam.

ACCA is not marked on coursework. Every paper is settled in one sitting, against the clock, on questions you have never seen. So exam practice is not a thing you bolt on in the last fortnight here. The question bank runs as a conversation, it marks you the moment you answer, and it is a premium upgrade you can take from your very first day.

  • Questions in a chat, not a PDFPriya, your exam tutor, asks one exam-style question at a time and answers back. It reads like being coached, not like marking your own homework.
  • Marked instantly, with the reasonRight or wrong, you get why straight away, while the question is still in your head. That is the bit that moves your score.
  • Yours from day oneUpgrade whenever you like and drill a topic the day you learn it, rather than in a panic in week twenty. Practise for five minutes or fifty, as often as you like.
  • Your accuracy, tracked per paperA running score across every question you have ever answered, so exam readiness is a number you can look at rather than a feeling.
The BT question bank: Priya Rao asks an exam-style question in a chat, the answer is marked correct instantly with an explanation, and a running accuracy of 80 percent from 127 answered sits in the header
Planning and pacing

The hard part is the weeks in between.

Almost nobody fails ACCA because one topic beat them. They fail because a fortnight slipped, then another one did, and the sitting arrived first. So tell Clevernest when you are sitting, and it paces the whole paper backwards from that date, then tells you honestly whether you are keeping up.

  • Work backwards from your sittingSet the date once and every course in the paper gets its own deadline, spaced across the time you actually have.
  • An honest read on your paceHow much you have finished against how much of your window has gone, side by side. On track or behind is a fact here, not a feeling.
  • Life happens, the plan rebuildsMove the date and everything still ahead of you redistributes. Courses you have already finished stay stamped with the day you did them.
  • Every paper you are working towardsRun more than one sitting at once and see them all in one place, with the revision run-in and the exam day pinned at the end.
The Clevernest study plan for BT: 61 days to go, 64 percent complete against 54 percent of the study window elapsed, flagged on track, above a course by course timeline of milestone deadlines
Real depth, already built

Content you can start today.

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The price

Free exam prep, forever.

Not free for now, and not free until we change our minds. The training is free permanently: every course, every exercise, every workbook and your study plan. Two things will be premium upgrades, and neither of them is the teaching.

Every courseAll 18 live courses across BT and MA, every lesson and every video.
Every exerciseAll 133 hands-on activities, from sorting and matching to spreadsheet drills.
Every workbookEach course's workbook, yours to download and keep.
Your study planExam timeline, milestone deadlines, XP, streaks and progress tracking.
Premium The question bankUnlimited exam-style questions in a chat, marked instantly with the reason every time.
Premium The real-time tutorAsk anything as you go and get a straight answer in the moment, inside the lesson.
No card, no trial clock, no locked lessons. The teaching stays free for as long as you want it.
Questions

The things people ask first.

Is Clevernest really free?
The training is free permanently: every course, every exercise, every workbook and your study plan. There is no card to enter, no trial clock and no locked lessons. Two things are premium upgrades, the question bank and the real-time tutor, and neither of them is the teaching.
Which ACCA papers can I study right now?
Business & Technology (BT) and Management Accounting (MA) are live and complete: 18 courses between them, holding 245 lessons in total, split between 112 lesson videos and 133 hands-on activities. More papers are being built and appear on the wall above as they open.
How is this different from watching lecture videos?
Every paper is taught inside a real business rather than in the abstract. You meet the people, read the situation and make the actual decision, then get told instantly whether you were right and why. ACCA exams test application rather than recall, so practising the decision is closer to the exam than watching someone explain it.
What do I get if I upgrade to premium?
Two things. The question bank: unlimited exam-style questions that run as a chat with an exam tutor who marks you the moment you answer and gives the reason every time, right or wrong, with your accuracy tracked per paper. And the real-time tutor: ask anything as you go and get a straight answer in the moment. The courses, exercises, workbooks and study plan stay free whether you upgrade or not.
Can I use Clevernest alongside a tuition provider or my own notes?
Yes. Plenty of people use it as their main route through a paper, and plenty use it to make a textbook stick by actually doing something with the theory. Nothing here assumes it is your only source, and there is no cost to finding out which way suits you.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Courses, the question bank and your study plan all work on a phone, which is where most short study sessions actually happen. Your progress follows your account across devices, so you can drill questions on the bus and pick the same course up on a laptop later.
Do I have to study the papers in order?
ACCA is designed to be sat in a set order and the wall above lists the papers that way, starting with BT. Within a paper the courses build on each other, so working through them in order is the intended route. Nothing stops you jumping around if you would rather.
How long does ACCA take, and how hard is it?
It depends on how many papers you sit per session and how much time you get each week, which is exactly why Clevernest paces your plan backwards from the sitting date you choose. We have written this up properly on the how long ACCA takes and hardest ACCA exams guides.

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