KASNEB

RECOMMENDED READING LIST FOR THE CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS (CPA)

EXAMINATION

CPA PART I

SECTION 1

PAPER NO. 1 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Business Accounting Frank Wood Latest edition
Volume I

2. A Textbook of Financial Daniel W. Kimuda Latest edition

Accounting

3. Advanced Accounting: David Wang’ombe Latest edition

Theory and Practice

4. Advanced Accountancy S.J. Jain and K.L. First edition

Volume I Narang

5. Basic Accounting N. D. Nzomo U.O.N Press Latest edition

6. Accounting Theory and M.W.E. Glautier Seventh

Practice B. Underdown edition

PAPER NO. 2 INTRODUCTION TO LAW

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

1. The Law of Kenya Tudor Jackson Latest edition

2. Business Law Marsh and Soulsby Eighth

edition

3. Business Law John J. Ogolla Focus Books Latest edition

4. General Principles and Ashiq Hussein Latest edition

Commercial Law of Kenya

5. Business Law Keith Abbott, Norman Eighth

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 Pendlebury and Kevin edition
Wardman

PAPER NO.3 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMMUNICATION

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Effective Business Asha Koul Latest edition
Communication

2. Entrepreneurship Robert D. Hisrich McGraw Hill Seventh

Michael P. Peters edition
Dean A. Shepherd
3. Communication Skills John W. Davis Latest edition

4. Essentials of Thomas Zimmerer Seventh

Entrepreneurship and Small Norman M. Scarborough edition
Business Management
5. Communication Skills Leena Sein Prentice Hall Second
edition
6. Communication For Shirley Taylor Pearson Fourth
Business: A Practical edition
Approach
7. Business Ethics: Concepts Laura P. Hartman Pearson Sixth edition
and Cases
8. Entrepreneurship Birley S. Latest edition
D. Muzyka

9. Business English N. A. Saleemi Latest edition

SECTION 2

PAPER NO. 4 ECONOMICS

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Modern Economic Theory K.K. Dewett Latest edition

2. Modern Economics Robert Mudida Focus Publications Latest edition

Ltd

3. Economics - A Students Cormack, Brwerster, Pearson education Fifth edition

Guide Beardshaw and Ross

4. Economics Lipsey and Chrystal Oxford University Tenth edition

Press

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 PAPER NO. 5 COST ACCOUNTING

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Cost Accounting Charles T. Horngren Thirteenth
Srikant M. Datar edition
George Foster
Madhar Rajan
Christopher Littner
2. Cost and Management W. M. Harper F. T. Pitman Latest edition
Accounting Publishing
3. Cost Accounting Made Ashiq Hussain E.A. Educational Latest edition
Easy Publishers
4. A Text Book of Costing Norman Spencer Heinemann Kenya Latest edition
Principles
5. Management and Cost Colin Drury Chapman & Hall Sixth edition
Accounting

PAPER NO. 6 AUDITING AND ASSURANCE

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Auditing I (Principles and N.T.T. Simiyu Profesco Business Latest edition
Concepts) Trainers

2. Fundamentals of Practical Ravinder Kumar, Prentice Hall Latest edition

Auditing Virender Sharama

3 Auditing Millichamp Sixth edition

CPA PART II

SECTION 3

PAPER NO. 7 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION
1. Management Information Laudon and Laudon Tenth edition
Systems
2. Management Information T. Lucey Ninth edition
Systems
3. Management Information Vladimir Zwass Wm C. Brown Latest edition
Systems Publishers

4. Systems Analysis and Shelly, Cashman, Thomson Course Fifth edition

Design Resenblatt Technology

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5. Management Systems Pitman Latest edition

PAPER NO.8 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Financial Management: Eugene F. Brigham Latest edition
Theory and Practice Michael C. Ehrhardt
2. Fundamentals of Financial Brigham and Houston Tenth edition
Management
3. Fundamentals of Financial Van Horne Thomas Wileys Tenth edition
Management M. Wachowicz
4. Principles of Managerial Lawrence Gitman Pearson Tenth edition
Finance
5. Business Finance – Eddie Mc Laney Prentice Hall Sixth edition
Theory and Practice
6. A Text Book of Business Ashiq Hussein E.A. Educational Second
Finance Publishers edition

PAPER NO. 9 FINANCIAL REPORTING

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Corporate Financial Tim Sutton Second
Accounting and Reporting edition
2. Advanced Accountancy S.N. Maheshwari Ninth edition
II
3. Spicer and Pegler’s – Paul Gee Latest edition
Book-keeping and
Accounts
4. Advanced Accounts M. C. Shukla S. Chand and Co. Latest edition
Volume II T. S. Grewal
S. C. Gupta
5. Advanced Accounting – David K. Wang’ombe Focus Publications Latest edition
Theory and Practice Limited
6. Modern Advanced E. John Larsen McGraw Hill Ninth edition
Accounting

SECTION 4
PAPER NO.10 TAXATION
1. Principles, Concepts of Samuel G. Kirika Connectour Third edition
Taxation in Kenya Publishers
2. Taxation in Kenya- Nicholas T. T. Simiyu Fifth edition
Principles and Practice

3. VAT Law and Practice in Gupta S. K. Latest edition

Kenya

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4. Income Tax – Law and Osambo A.T. (Dr) Bluechip Copy 2009
Practice Services

PAPER NO. 11 COMPANY LAW

TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Company Law John J. Ogolla Second

edition
2. Company Law Derek French Twenty fifth
Stephen Mayson edition
Christopher Ryan
3. Topham and Ivamy’s E.R Hardy Ivamy Butterworths Latest edition
Company Law
4. Company Law Brenda Hannigan Lexis Nexis Uk Latest edition
5. A Text Book of Company Ashiq Hussain E.A. Educational Sixth edition
Law in Kenya Publishers

PAPER NO. 12 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Quantitative Methods for Louis Swift Second
Business Management Sally Piff edition
and Finance
2. Quantitative Analysis for Barry Rendor Prentice Hall Tenth edition
Management Ralph M. Stair
Michael E. Hanna
3. Quantitative Techniques Khanna R. B. Khanna McGraw Hill Fourth edition
for Managerial Decisions
4. Applied Mathematics for P. Henry Latest edition
Business Economics and
Social Services
5. Quantitative Techniques T. Lucey Book Power Sixth edition
6. Quantitative Techniques in N. D. Vohra McGraw Hill Third edition
Management
7. Quantitative Methods for Adil H. Mouhammed Prentice Hall Latest edition
Business and Economics
8. Essential Business Joan Smailes and Prentice Hall Latest edition
Statistics Angela McGrane

CPA PART III

SECTION 5
PAPER NO.13 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

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1. Management: Concepts Tim Hannagan Fifth edition
and Practices
2. Management Stephen P. Prentice Hall Sixth edition
Robbins
Mary Coulter
3. Management (Principles N. A. Saleemi Saleemi Third edition
and Practices) and J. B. Publishers
Bogonko
4. Management – A global Heinz Weihrich McGraw Hill Latest edition
perspective Harold Koontz
5. Introduction to David Schwatz H.B.J. Media Latest edition
Management Principles Systems
and Processes

PAPER NO. 14 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

Management Hasen and Mowen Eighth edition

1. Accounting
Management Robert S. Kaplan Fifth edition
2. Accounting Anthony A. Atkinson
S. Mark Young
Ella Mae Matsumuna
Management Colin Drury Second edition
3. Accounting for
Business Decisions
Management T. Lucey Book Power Fifth edition
5. Accounting
Management and Colin Drury Thompson Sixth edition
6. Cost Accounting
(Students Manual)

PAPER N0.15 ADVANCED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION
1. Financial I.M.Pandey Vikas Publishing Ninth edition
Management House
2. Financial James C. Van Horne Prentice Hall Twelfth edition
Management and
Policy

3. Corporate Finance Richard Pike Prentice Hall Second edition

and Investment Bill Neale
(Decisions and
Strategies)
4. Fundamentals of Richard A. Brealey McGraw – Hill Third edition
Corporate Finance Stewart C. Myers Irwin
Allan J. Marcus

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5. Fundamentals of James van Home, Prentice Hall Eleventh edition
Financial John Wachswicz
Management
6. Principles of Lawrence J.Gitman Pearson Latest edition
Managerial Finance Education
SECTION 6

PAPER NO.16 ADVANCED TAXATION

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION

1. Taxation II N. A. Saleemi Latest edition
Simplified J. Bogonko
2. Wills Administration John Barlowed Ninth edition
and Taxation Law Lesley King
and Practice Anthony King
3. Principles, Concepts Samuel G. Kirika Connectour Latest edition
of Taxation in Kenya Publishers

PAPER NO.17 ADVANCED AUDITING AND ASSURANCE

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION
1. Auditing and Alvin A. Arens Twelfth edition
Assurance Services Randal J. Elder
2. Auditing, Assurance Samuel Wamae Latest edition
and Related
Services – Shifting
Paradigm
3. Handbook of IFAC
International
Auditing, Assurance
and Ethics
Pronouncements

PAPER NO. 18 ADVANCED FINANCIAL REPORTING

TITLE AUTHOR(S) PUBLISHER EDITION
1. Advanced S. P. Jain First edition
Accountancy K.L Narang
Volume II
2. Financial Barry Elliott Second edition
Accounting, Jamie Elliot
Reporting and
Analysis
3. Professional Nzele Nzomo University of First edition
Conduct and Ethics- Nairobi Press
The case of
Accounting and
Reporting
4. Advanced David K. Wang’ombe Focus Latest edition
Accounting – Theory Publications
and Practice Limited

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5. Advanced Financial N. D. Nzomo Kenya Literature Latest edition
Accounting Bureau

6. International International
Financial Reporting Accounting
Standards Standards Board
(IASB)
7. Professional Lawrence J.Gitman Pearson Tenth edition
Conduct and Ethics- Education
Case of Accounts

Other Reading and reference material

1. Journals of Finance and Accountancy
2. CPA Revision Guides published by Strathmore University
3. The internet
4. Relevant editions of the KASNEB Newsline
5. Other relevant textbooks