IGCSE and GCSE · Years 10-11
IGCSE Accounting tutors
Foundational double entry, control accounts and simple final accounts. Students who make the underlying logic automatic here find A Level a natural extension; those who memorise rules hit a wall in the first term.
- USD 20-28 per hour
- One-to-one, online
- Free 1-hour trial class
What IGCSE and GCSE actually demands
The first qualifications that appear on a transcript, and the point at which most families first consider tutoring. Two years, usually eight to ten subjects, and a step up in independence that catches out students who coasted through Year 9.
A subject with unusually little ambiguity: the double-entry system either balances or it does not. That makes it very learnable and very unforgiving: one misposting early in a question can cost every mark that follows.
Where IGCSE Accounting students lose marks
- Double entry half-understood, so debits and credits are applied by memory rather than by reasoning
- One early error cascading through a full set of financial statements and taking every subsequent mark with it
- Adjustments (accruals, prepayments, depreciation, provisions for doubtful debts) learned as separate tricks
- Ratio analysis calculated correctly and then interpreted in one thin sentence where the marks are in the evaluation
Is this the right subject at this level?
Students heading for accountancy, finance or business degrees, and anyone who finds the logic satisfying. It rewards precision and routine practice more reliably than almost any other subject at this level.
What it costs
USD 20-28 per 60-minute one-to-one lesson at IGCSE and GCSE, the same rate in every city we teach in. Billed monthly against lessons actually taught, with no prepaid blocks and no minimum commitment.
Paired lessons (2 students) are USD 14-20 per student. Small group lessons (up to 6 students) are USD 10-14 per student. What each format is good for is here.
How we teach it
One-to-one, online, with a shared whiteboard. The first thing we establish is the exact syllabus the student is entered for: schools do not always publish the version they actually enter, and preparing for the wrong paper structure wastes a term.
After that the work is diagnostic: a past paper under timed conditions, marked together against the published scheme, to find out where the marks are genuinely going. That is almost always more useful than covering the syllabus again more slowly. The full process is here.
Accounting: questions parents ask
My child's answers are nearly right but the marks are low. Why?
Because one early misposting cascades. In a full set of financial statements a single error in the first adjustment can take every subsequent mark with it, even though the method afterwards was correct. Working methodically and checking the trial balance before proceeding is worth more than extra content revision.
Is Accounting a memorisation subject?
No, and treating it as one is why students plateau. Double entry is a logical system: a student who reasons about which account gains and which gives up value can handle unfamiliar transactions, while one who memorised rules cannot.
How much of the A Level is written rather than numerical?
More than students expect. Analysis and evaluation questions, particularly around ratios and decision-making, carry substantial marks, and technically strong candidates routinely underperform on them by writing one thin sentence where several were needed.