Deferred tax assets/liabilities & valuation allowance on the FAR CPA Exam
Deferred tax assets/liabilities & valuation allowance is tested on the FAR section of the CPA Exam. It is a named topic of blueprint group FAR.III.D, Accounting for income taxes, which sits in FAR Area III, Select Transactions, at 25 to 35% of the section.
- Section
- FAR, Financial Accounting and Reporting
- Area
- FAR.III, Select Transactions, 25 to 35% of the section
- Group
- FAR.III.D, Accounting for income taxes
- Authoritative literature
- ASC 740
- Skill levels tested
- Application, Analysis
Which standard covers Deferred tax assets/liabilities & valuation allowance on the CPA Exam?
Deferred tax assets/liabilities & valuation allowance is tested against ASC 740.
At what skill level is Deferred tax assets/liabilities & valuation allowance tested?
Deferred tax assets/liabilities & valuation allowance is tested at 2 skill levels: Application (applying a rule to a fact pattern, which is where most simulations sit), Analysis (working across several concepts at once, which is simulation territory).
Is Deferred tax assets/liabilities & valuation allowance tested outside FAR?
Yes. The same literature is tested outside FAR: ASC 740 in FAR.I.C (Public-company & periodic reporting); ASC 740 in BAR.II.J (Public company reporting topics).
Area, group, topic, standard and skill levels are the AICPA published blueprint. Pass rates are the AICPA published candidate pass rates for 2026 through Q2, read from AICPA & CIMA on 2026-08-17. The AICPA publishes them quarterly. Where the same standard is tested outside FAR is PocketCPA's own mapping.
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Common questions
Is Deferred tax assets/liabilities & valuation allowance tested on the CPA Exam?
Deferred tax assets/liabilities & valuation allowance is tested on the FAR section of the CPA Exam. It is a named topic of blueprint group FAR.III.D, Accounting for income taxes, which sits in FAR Area III, Select Transactions, at 25 to 35% of the section.