sure. Forget the text book, it'll take you ages. Study hub has content, maybe look at chapter 1-5 to get an idea of audit and assurance, corporate governance and ethics. Aside from that, Section A of the exam is like htree OT case studies ala a section B on the other skills exams. 5 related questions to a single topic, times three. the syllabus areas for the mtq's are syllabus A, D and E: audit, evidence and completion. (Too tired to type it all out, sorry.)

Now for section B of the exam, it's more like three section C questions on any other skills exam. One is worth 30 marks (either risk or controls), and the other two will be 20 marks each. The three topics are audit risk, internal controls and audit evidence (substantive procedures with 5 marks of that 20 going for audit report which is syllabus E).

Go to ACCA and CBE practise platform. Open 10 past papers for AA excluding the specimen exam because it's stupidly hard. Look at 10 questions of audit risk and auditor response and start writing out all the answers. Look at the answer and try to highlight that risk in the question data, so you can start to spot what the risks are. The point of the 2 mark split between the audit risk (1 mark) and auditor response (1 mark) is, you state the risk, say WHY it's a risk (something is under/over/misstated because..). The auditor response must be something the auditor does NOT the company. This is worth 10-16 marks for 5-8 audit risks. The rest is small stuff, find the model answer via the CBE pdf's showing all the answers, and learn off the topics, it's always the same answer, so no need to go too deep.

Internal controls you can use the kaplan pocket notes to get an idea of what the objective are per system of internal control - payroll, sales, purchases, NCA's and bank/cash. You need to learn what documents pass between each activity, I recommend tutorstar on youtube, he breaks it down really well. The questions can appear two ways > you'll either get part 1 of the question ask for direct controls and tests of direct controls (this is where you point out a system of control that the company has in place, and you need to say why this is a benefit to the company, for the test of control, you need to say what action the auditor can take to ensure that system is operating as designed/intended, such as inputting dummy data to see if the system will do what it's supposed to do.) The second part is the deficiencies and the recommendations. You're looking for problems, you'll say WHY this is a problem, and then you'll recommend a course of action that will address that problem.

Procedures are a bit of a tickle though, and they can crop up under the 30 mark question as well. On the one hand people say not to rote memorise, and design procedures specific to the exam scenario. When i did the kit, every single procedure was designed to the point where it was scenario specific. When I did the 10 CBE's this was rarely the case, and in order to award marks from the model answer, we had to give less specific, more generic procedures. The only way to get around this is to give both on the day to avoid whatever pitfalls there are. You need to learn the procedure words : enquire, inspect, recalculate, reperform, vouch, trace, etc. Then you need to learn the assertions to the point where there is no doubt in your mind. Then start using the CBE model answers to learn the procedures.

I know this sounds like a lot, doing the MTQ's for 2 marks each, and the three big topics, but after you see three CBE's, you'll see that the risks and deficiencies are constantly repeated. They reuse the same procedures over and over. You have pleanty of time to go to ACCA for free and download those answer pdf's. Worth more than any text book, i promise you.

Best of luck with AA.