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The CIA Is in the Same Subscription.

All three parts of the Certified Internal Auditor exam, inside the same $199/mo you pay for the CPA Exam. Traditional providers charge about as much for CIA review on its own as AccelaStudy® AI Accounting charges for all four credential ladders.

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$199/mo covers CPA, CMA, EA and CIA together · Launching February 2027

Why the CIA

The Internal Audit Credential

The CIA is the globally recognized designation for internal auditors, issued by The Institute of Internal Auditors. If your work is assurance, controls, governance or risk — rather than external audit or tax — it is the credential that actually describes the job you do.

It travels. The CIA is recognized internationally rather than state by state, which matters if your career is not confined to one US jurisdiction.
It is the natural second credential for an auditor. A great deal of what the CPA AUD section tests — risk assessment, internal control, evidence, reporting — is the ground the CIA is built on.
Three parts, not four. A shorter commitment than the CPA Exam, and one many people finish while working full time.
Eligibility is The IIA’s call, not ours. Education, experience, character reference, and the program window are all set by The IIA and published at theiia.org. We prepare you for the exam.

The CIA exam

Three Parts, All Covered

Built to The IIA’s current syllabus, with the topic weighting the syllabus specifies rather than the weighting a textbook found convenient.

PART 1

Essentials of Internal Auditing

Foundations of internal auditing and the Standards
Independence and objectivity
Proficiency and due professional care
Quality assurance and improvement
Governance, risk management, and control
Fraud risks

The conceptual base. Heavy on the Standards, which means heavy on precise recall — exactly what rule-recall practice trains.

PART 2

Practice of Internal Auditing

Managing the internal audit activity
Planning the engagement
Performing the engagement
Communicating results and monitoring progress

The doing. Scenario-shaped questions where the answer depends on where you are in an engagement, not on a definition.

PART 3

Business Knowledge for Internal Auditing

Business acumen and organizational structure
Information security and information technology
Financial management and financial analysis
Managerial accounting and decision analysis

The broadest part, and where CPA and CMA work pays off — the financial-analysis ground is shared almost outright.

What this costs elsewhere

The Part Worth Saying Plainly

CIA review is a market of its own, with its own providers and its own prices.
Buying it separately is the normal way to do this.

A standalone CIA review course from an established provider — Gleim, HOCK International, Wiley and Surgent all sell one — typically runs somewhere in the high hundreds to low thousands of dollars for all three parts, paid up front. That is a reasonable price for what it is.

It is also roughly what a year of this subscription costs, and a year of this subscription includes the CPA Exam, the CMA and the EA as well. If you are pursuing two of the four, the arithmetic stops being close.

Said the other way round: if the CIA is the only credential you want, and you want a course built exclusively around it by people who do nothing else, buy a dedicated CIA review. We would rather tell you that than pretend the choice is obvious.

Cross-credential head start

What You Already Proved Counts Here

The engine tracks concepts, not courses.
Where two credentials test the same ground, you prove it once.

FAR into CIA Part 3

Financial management and financial analysis are most of Part 3’s weight, and most of that ground is already covered by CPA Financial Accounting and Reporting. You start Part 3 with credit for it.

AUD into Parts 1 and 2

Risk, control, evidence, and engagement conduct are the shared spine of external and internal audit. The vocabulary differs more than the thinking does, and the engine knows which is which.

CMA into Part 3

Managerial accounting, decision analysis and internal control overlap heavily with CMA Part 1 and Part 2. Two credentials, one body of work.

And it works in reverse

Start with the CIA and the AUD section is materially easier when you get to it. There is no privileged order — whichever ladder you climb first makes the next one shorter.

CIA Questions

Is the CIA really included?

Yes — all three parts, inside the same $199/mo subscription as the CPA Exam, the CMA and the EA. There is no CIA tier and no add-on.

Am I eligible?

The Institute of Internal Auditors decides that and publishes the current requirements at theiia.org — education, experience, a character reference, and the window in which you must complete the program. Read it before you register rather than after.

Can I take the parts in any order?

The IIA sets the ordering and window rules. The course imposes no order of its own — Autopilot plans around whatever dates you actually book.

How much does my CPA study count?

More than most people expect, particularly into Part 3. Financial management and financial analysis are shared almost outright with FAR, and the audit thinking in AUD carries into Parts 1 and 2. The engine tracks the overlap concept by concept rather than by assumption.

I only want the CIA. Should I still use this?

Possibly not, and we would rather say so. If the CIA is the only credential you want, a dedicated CIA review from a provider who does nothing else is a perfectly good answer. This subscription earns its price when you are climbing more than one ladder.

Does it cover the IIA Standards specifically?

Yes — Part 1 is largely built on them, and precise recall of the Standards is what rule-recall practice is for. Where The IIA revises the syllabus, the course follows.

Four Ladders, One Price

CPA, CMA, EA and CIA on one $199/mo subscription. Launching February 2027.