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About the AIDE System

The AIDE System was developed following has been featured heavily in the ACCA’s Student Accountant Magazine in 2010 through several articles including video clips. It has also been presented several times at the London School of Economics and CASS Business School.

About Soul Patel

I took my first professional finance exam in June 2003. Since then my life has changed A LOT.

At the time I had hardly any money, no career, and I was 18,000 in debt. I had to borrow money from my mum to pay for the books and exam, and on the day of the exam, my father was barely out of intensive care after almost passing away during a heart operation a few days before.

Now I am what you could call a financial expert. I’m both a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder. In 2009, at the age of 30, I became financially free through property investing, and in the same year set up Pass1sttime.com

Pass1sttime.com is a blog, website, and set of products that educates readers about the psychology, strategies, and techniques that are needed to pass accountancy and financial exams 1st time round – and survive!

Why Pass1sttime.com?

I set up the site because I’m the only person who has taken the ACA and CFA exams at the same time, completing 6 years worth of study in only 3 years whilst working full-time. I passed each exam 1st time.

In contrast, friends of mine were taking just one of those qualifications and they were failing exams. However, as much as I wanted to believe that I was some kind of financial genius (and inflate my head to ten times it’s current size) I soon realised that the difference wasn’t because I was a genius, it was because I had marched to a distinctly different beat, following principles that others had not.

I’ve given lectures at the London School of Economics, CASS Business School, and at both consultancy and accounting firms about the AIDE System.

The key difference between me and other teachers is that I finished my exams recently so I have a current view on the pressures that accountancy and finance students face. Other teachers may cover similar information, but they’re doing so retrospectively. They didn’t apply modern studying techniques when they took their own exams. I did. Also, there’s information here that you won’t find anywhere else! So I speak from direct, relevant and recent experience.

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