21-AUG-2024
The 2025 Accounting assignments and files will be available to download from SQA Secure website from the following dates:
- National 5 Accounting – Monday 17 February 2025
- Higher Accounting – Monday 10 March 2025
You can arrange access to these secure materials through your SQA co-ordinator, who will also confirm the uplift details for your centre.
Assignment topics
To help you with planning and delivering the courses, we can confirm that the 2025 assignments will assess the following topics.
2025 National 5 Accounting assignment topics:
- Inventory record cards
- Labour costing
- Overhead analysis
- Job costing
2025 Higher Accounting assignment topics:
- Manufacturing accounts
- Period-end financial statements – income statement (up to Profit for the Year)
- Process costing
- Budgeting
The closing date for requesting adapted coursework assessments for Accounting is Friday 20 December 2024.
Assessment conditions
As a reminder, SQA will not invigilate the assignment following the pilot in 2019–20. However, the assignment must still be completed under a high degree of supervision and control. Further details are provided in the course assessment section of the course specification.
Contact us
For more information on annually released coursework for Accounting, please email qualification.development@sqa.org.uk and direct your enquiry to Lindsay Thomson, Qualifications Manager or Kirstie Casson, Qualifications Officer.
