After completing this course (watching this video, and reading the accompanying material) you will be able to:

1. Apply the principles governing deductibility of self-education expenses to determine whether a deduction is available for self-education expenses
2. Determine whether a subject of self-education enables the taxpayer to maintain or improve a skill or specific knowledge the exercise of which a taxpayer's income-earning activities are based on
3. Express a considered opinion on whether the cost of a particular self-improvement or personal development course is deductible