Higher

Accounting · Higher

Final accounts, costing, budgets and decision-making — the numbers side of business.

The course

What Accounting is about

Accounting takes you inside the numbers of a business: how final accounts are prepared from a trial balance, how costs are gathered and used to price work, and how budgets and cash-flow forecasts support real decisions.

Where it leads

What it offers you

It builds numerical fluency and a working knowledge of business finance — a strong base for accountancy, banking, business and management degrees and careers.

The archive

Papers & marking schemes

2022–2026

2023

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2022

1 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

Not published for this year.

SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Accounting Higher on sqa.org.uk.

All Accounting levels