LACPA Exam Training & Preparation Program: All Four Subjects, One Track

LACPA requires a university degree in accounting and a period of supervised traineeship under a LACPA member, normally three to five years, before full membership. Under the association's bylaws, trainee members sit the professional exam after their first year of traineeship and must pass it within five years of that first year. Requirements can change, so confirm your own position with LACPA before you plan a sitting; we check it with you at the start of the program.

LACPA sets the exam calendar and publishes it on lacpa.org.lb; its published past papers include a December sitting, so a winter session is typical, but always confirm the current dates with the association. Most candidates need several months of structured preparation across the four subjects, which is why the program is planned as one track rather than four separate courses. Tell us your target sitting and we will map the timeline backwards from it.

All four subjects the LACPA exam tests: managerial accounting, IFRS, auditing, and Lebanese law and taxation. They are taught as one coordinated track, so your study plan runs across the whole syllabus instead of treating each paper as an unrelated course. The program page lists every subject with what it covers, and each links through to its own page.

Either works. The LACPA Certification Program covers all four exam subjects together: managerial accounting, IFRS, auditing, and Lebanese law and taxation. Each of those four is also a full course on its own, with its own fee, which suits anyone resitting a single paper or shoring up one weak area. If you are sitting the whole exam, the complete program is the better route: it is taught as one coordinated track rather than four separate starts, and it costs about 20% less than buying the four subjects one by one.

Either. The program runs in person at our Hamra office in Beirut and live online in the same cohort, so a candidate outside Beirut, or working full time, follows exactly the same plan with the same instructor.

Both. Sessions run in English or Arabic, whichever you think in under exam pressure, and the Lebanese law and taxation material is worked against the statutes as they are written.

You prepare for that paper alone. Each of the four subjects is also a full course on its own, so a candidate carrying one paper resits with focused preparation at that subject's fee rather than repeating the whole program. LACPA's own rules on resits and the five-year window apply, and we will check them with you.

Registered CPAs must complete at least forty hours a year of continuing professional development through LACPA training, seminars and conferences, abide by the association's bylaws, pay the subscriptions and join the retirement fund. The license is the start of an obligation, not the end of one, and the program is built to leave you able to practise, not only to pass.

Every course page lists its fee, and that fee covers the whole program rather than a single session. The LACPA Certification Program is priced as one package covering all four exam subjects, and each of those subjects can also be taken on its own at its own fee. Because these are coaching programs, the plan is shaped around your starting level and the pace you actually learn at, so tell us your goal and we will confirm the right program and its cost before you commit. Organizations training a full team get a tailored rate.

The duration shown on each course page, a one-week or multi-week program, is a guide rather than a fixed timetable. This is coaching, so the number of sessions and the pace are set around your current level and how quickly each topic lands, which means two people on the same program can finish on different schedules. The aim is that you leave genuinely able to apply the material, not that you sat through a set number of hours. Tell us where you are starting from and we will map a realistic timeline with you.