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The Tax Professionals Podcast
This podcast helps tax professionals, typically by helping you become a better tax professional, helping you pass the ATT and CTA exams, or helping you decide what you want to do with your tax career.
Episodes are released bi-weekly, released on Mondays, and include a mix of solo and guest episodes.
Jack Bonehill, CTA, hosts the podcast. He's an employment tax specialist, working in the area since 2015, and won Tolley's Taxation's Rising Star award in 2023.
Website: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/
Subscribe: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe/
Tax Skills Masterclasses: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/masterclasses/
Sub Series: Tax Career Success Secrets, sharing the secrets behind tax-career success, and Tax Role Insights, giving you an insider's view into the different available tax roles.
The Tax Professionals Podcast
TTPP96: Why She Failed One CTA Paper Multiple Times but Then Passed and Qualified with Amy Rylance
Show notes: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/TTPP96
Subscribe: thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/subscribe
Take control of your career progression free course: https://documents.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/freecourse
You’ll Learn
- A bit about Amy and her tax career
- (5:45) Overview of Amy’s ATT and CTA journey, including what happened when she sat her first CTA paper
- (12:00) Amy’s key advice for passing the CTA Application and Professional Skills (APS) paper
- (16:30) With hindsight, how would Amy have prepared differently for the CTA Human Capital Advanced Technical Paper (HC AT)
- (19:15) How Amy kept motivated and determined to pass after her knockbacks and why she almost gave up
- (25:00) The evolution of her mindset – to get the right one to pass
- (28:00) What Amy did differently, the time that she passed – how she passed and studied learnt the whole syllabus with a deep understanding of the topics
Resources
Tax flashcards/squares – email Jack (jack@thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com) or Nitin (cta@bpp.com) for samples.
FREE – CTA Study Phase Checklist so you can make sure you ‘complete’ the study phase before revision, going into revision as prepared as you can
FREE – ATT/CTA revision folder guide, which was made when the exams became open book. This is somewhat outdated now, but there is still useful information in there
FREE – 8 CTA/ATT revision tips summary, which does exactly what it says on the tin
Other exam-support related podcast episodes: https://www.thetaxprofessionalspodcast.com/category/podcast/att-cta/