Accounting is a key function in the dynamic world of business. The Courses provide the knowledge and skills needed to understand, analyse and interpret financial information in order to make informed judgements and decisions.
There will be no external assessment for National 5 courses in session 2020-21. Candidates will not be required to sit external exams and SQA will not assess coursework. Instead, we are working with stakeholders to develop an alternative certification model for National 5 that is based on teacher and lecturer estimates. Subject-specific guidance on the key pieces of evidence to support estimates will be issued on a rolling basis from the end of October.
The assignment has been removed and the following topic areas of content would not have been directly assessed in the 2021 National 5 Accounting question paper:
Preparing ledger accounts
Break even
Job costing
Spreadsheets
These were the 2020 National 5 Accounting assignment topics, you should refer to the 2020 assignment and marking instructions for details on the content that does not need to be assessed in 2020-21.
