ACCA Worldwide pass rates (Fron June 2003 - Dec 2011)

ACCA Qualification

The current ACCA Qualification syllabus was first examined in December 2007. Pass rates for the old syllabus (from June 2003) are also included here. 

CIMA EXEMPTIONS FOR ACCA

Accelerated route to CIMA with CGA

Develop your professional career and join CIMA through the accelerated route for members of:

• affiliates and members of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) 
• passed finalists and members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
• members and passed finalists of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Sri Lanka (ICASL)
• members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ghana (ICAG)
• South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) – from 2011 completion
• Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants (ZICA) – from 2012 completion

By joining CIMA by  ACCA Affiliates and Members you will be awarded 11 exemptions out of 15 papers After completing CGA exam, after completing CGA you will be awarded CIMA Advance Diploma in Management Accounting and you will move to strategic level.

ACCA closes direct membership route for CIMA members

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is removing an option for CIMA members to obtain direct membership of ACCA with effect from 1 January 2012.

LSBF P4 EXAM MOCK DEC 2011

P4 Advanced Financial Management


http://www.ziddu.com/download/17585763/P4-LSBF.zip.html

LSBF P3 EXAM MOCK DEC 2011

P3 Business Analysis


http://www.ziddu.com/download/17585717/P3-LSBF.zip.html

LSBF P2-INT EXAM MOCK DEC 2011

P2 Corporate Reporting - INT


http://www.ziddu.com/download/17574205/P2_INT_LSBF.zip.html

LSBF EXAMS MOCK DEC 2011

LSBF EXAMS MOCK DEC 2011

F1 Accountant in Business
F2 Management Accounting
F3 Financial Accounting
F4 Corporate and Business Law
F5 Performance Management
F6 Taxation
F7 Financial Reporting
F8 Audit and Assurance
F9 Financial Management
P1 Governance, Risk & Ethics
P2 Corporate Reporting - INT
P3 Business Analysis
P4 Advanced Financial Management
P5 Advanced Performance Management
P6 Advanced Taxation
P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance

ACCA OPENTUITION EXAM TIPS DEC 2011

ACCA OPENTUITION EXAM TIPS DEC 2011

F4 Corporate and Business Law-ENG

Numbers indicate questions to practice from BPP Revision kit
Precedent, ratio and obiter (6)
Consideration (24)
Terms (28)
Lifting the veil (63)
Resolutions and meetings (84)
Redundancy – explanation and rules (48
Auditors – qualifications, duties and powers (94 and 95)
Invitation, offer, counter-offer, scenario
Directors’ appointment and removal (88)
Alteration of Articles and binding force (69 and 70)
Compulsory and voluntary winding-up (98)
Shares and debentures (75)
Bribery Act ( Student Accountant article )

F5 Performance Management

Target costing / Lifecycle costing / Environmental Management Accounting (short written part)
Multi-product cost volume profit analysis
Budgetting (written part) / Time series / regression analysis
Planning and Operational variances
Performance measurement – financial and non-financial / Transfer pricing

F6 Taxation - UK

F6 is very predictable so no tips as such.

Practise as many exam standard questions as you can.

Make sure you do to time. After the 15 minute reading time you have 1.8 minutes per mark. If a question is split between part (a) 10 marks and part (b) 10 marks then only spend 18 minutes on part (a) and then move on to part (b).

Look at all the requirements of the question, can you answer an easy parts first, for example one part maybe standalone and on something very straightforward, so do this part first

You do not have to answer the questions in the order they are set, if question 5 is the easiest do this one first.

Question 3 will be the hardest so leave this until last but make sure you leave 36 minutes to answer it.

Do not panic if you can’t remember something in a question, don’t spend too much time trying to remember it, have a go or even guess. Then you can move on to other parts of the question.

Above all you need 50% to pass, so find the marks you can do. There will always be more than 50% of the question which is examining core areas of the syllabus, only a few marks will be fringe areas, but you do not have to worry about these as you can find the 50 marks you need to pass.

F7 Financial Reporting

q1 Consolidated balance sheet with subsidiary and associate
q2 Preparation of SoFP and SoI ( maybe Statement of changes in equity
too ) after making adjustments to trial balance or draft accounts
q3 Cash flow ( probably with an element of interpretation )
q4 Development expenditure – chat and short calculation
q5 IFRS9 – 10 mark chat

F8 Audit and Assurance

Q1 Inventory; stock count; computer assisted auditing techniques
Q2 Internal audit v external audit; parts of an assurance engagament
Q3 Corporate governance
Q4 Going concern and audit reports
Q5 Sampling

F9 Financial Management

1 Valuation of shares using PE ratio and using the dividend growth model (including using betas and using asset beta formula)
2 Investment appraisal – replacement and/or capital rationing and/or lease v buy
3 Receivables management (whether or not to offer discounts)
4 Part a) Rights issue and effect on some financial ratios
Part b) Foreign exchange risk management

P1 Governance, Risk & Ethics

q1 Internal control problems, role of the Chair, the contribution that neds
can make to corporate governance
q2 Corporate social responsibility – why and what
q3 Internal auditors and their role in managing risk
q4 Ethical problems – possibly a money laundering situation
possible question – instead of any of those last three – a numbers question

P2 Corporate Reporting

q1 Vertical group, maybe a “D” shape, Statement of Financial Position,
some ethics or corporate governance
q2 Accounting treatment, possibly complicated inventory or substance over
form – but it could be any IAS / IFRS / Framework-based question
q3 “Various IAS accounting treatment” ( 3 or 4 different IASs rather than
a specific one as in q2 )
q4 Role of IFRS, the need for and an understanding

P3 Business Analysis

Q1 Normal appraisal and advice. Perhaps with takeovers and expected values
Q2 Marketing, particularly pricing
Q3 Project – project initiation documents and gateways
Q4 Strategic use of IT
Q5 Strategy and people

P4 Advanced Financial Management

Section A
Big investment appraisal / cost of capital calculation
Managing interest rate risk
Section B
Managing foreign exchange risk
Capital asset pricing model
Written on quantitative easing

P5 Advanced Performance Management

EVA
Non financial performance measures
Information needs of different business structures
Different approaches to budgeting; beyond budgeting

P6 Advanced Taxation - UK

P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance (INT)

q1 reply to an email from a partner about a new audit assignment /
assurance engagement planning exercise – maybe where there was a suspicion
of fraud last year and a change in management
q2 an ethical problem with conflict of interest implications
q3 roles and contrast of internal / external auditors, the need for and
justification of an internal audit function
q4 criticise an audit report
possible question – comment on the matters and identify the evidence you
would expect to find in the review process of an audit file

ACCA BPP EXAM TIPS DEC 2011

ACCA EXAM TIPS FROM FIRST INTUITION DEC 2011

ACCA EXAM TIPS FROM FIRST INTUITION DEC 2011

ACCA EXAM TIPS FROM ICOUNT DEC 2011

EXAM TIPS FROM ICOUNT DEC 2011

F4 Corporate and Business Law

·          Contract breach

·          Employment tests

·          Company articles and memorandum

·          Corporate governance

·          Loan capital

·          Limited liability

KAPLAN ACCA EXAM TIP DEC 2011

 

F4 Corporate and Business Law

English Legal System

• ·         Tribunals
• ·         Interpretation of statute
• ·         Judicial precedent
• ·         Human Rights Act

ACA-ICAEW EXEMPTION FOR ACCA

ACA papers

There are 15 modules within the ACA qualification with exams in two stages, covering a range of topics from business and finance to law and business strategy:

ACCA TIMETABLE DEC 2011 AND JUNE 2012

ACCA Qualification - December 2011

 

Please note the ACCA Qualification timetable has changed and the following exam timetable will apply from the December 2011 exam session onwards. You should study the timetable carefully, especially if you have sat exams at previous exam sessions, as exams you may have previously attempted may now be scheduled on another day.
However, due to public holidays taking place in the UK from 2–5 June 2012, the ACCA June 2012 exam session will take place from 11–20 June 2012. Please visit the June 2012 exam timetable section for exact dates.

ICAEW APPROVED EMPLOYERS IN PAKISTAN

ICAEW APPROVED EMPLOYERS IN PAKISTAN

Office Primary_Name	Town Name	Address Line 1	Post Zip	STD	Phone
A.F. Ferguson & Co	LAHORE	Al-Falah Building		628	5078
A.F. Ferguson & Co	ISLAMABAD	P.I.A. Building			009251 2273457
A.F. Ferguson & Co	KARACHI	A.F. Ferguson & Co	74000		9.22124E+11
Amin Mudassar & Co	LAHORE	Amin Mudassar & Co			92425717261
Anjum Asim Shahid Rahman	LAHORE	Anjum Asim Shahid Rahman	54000	4275	90214
Anjum Asim Shahid Rahman	KARACHI		75530
Anjum Asim Shahid Rahman	ISLAMABAD		44000
Avais Hyder Liaquat Nauman	LAHORE	1/C-5 Avais Chambers		92 42	587 2731 23
Avais Hyder Liaquat Nauman	QUETTA
Avais Hyder Liaquat Nauman	KARACHI
Avais Hyder Liaquat Nauman	FAISALABAD
Azure Pakistan Outsourcing (Private) Limited	LAHORE
BDO Ebrahim & Co	KARACHI	2nd Floor Block C	74200
BDO Ebrahim & Co	ISLAMABAD		1234
BDO Ebrahim & Co	LAHORE		54660
Consulting Direct UK Ltd	RAWALPINDI
Ernst & Young Ford Rhodes Sidal Hyder	ISLAMABAD		44000
Ernst & Young Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder	KARACHI	Ernst & Young Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder	75530	21565	7
F.R.A.N.T.S. & Co.	KARACHI	F.R.A.N.T.S. & Co	75500	21353	15175
Fakharuddin Yousafali & Co	LAHORE	Fakharuddin Yousafali & Co		3008	446916
Fazal Mahmood & Company	LAHORE	Fazal Mahmood & Company	54000	42	37531445
Ford Rhodes, Sidat Hyder & Co	LAHORE		54000
HLB Ijaz Tabussum & Co.	ISLAMABAD	HLB Ijaz Tabussum & Co.	44000	282	5045
Horwath Hussain Chaudhury & Co.	LAHORE	25 E Main Market	54660	42111	111442
Horwath Hussain Chaudhury & Co.	ISLAMABAD
Horwath Hussain Chaudhury & Co.	RAWALPINDI		46000
ICI Pakistan Limited (Corporate Function)	KARACHI	ICI Pakistan Limited (Corporate Function)	74000	111	100200
Javaid Jalal Amjad & Co	LAHORE	Javaid Jalal Amjad & Co	54000	42	37587137
Khalid Majid Rehman	ISLAMABAD	3rd Floor Al-Malik Centre	44000		92512821504
KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co	LAHORE	201 Office Block		92	42 57817516
KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co	KARACHI	1st Floor	75530	21	5685847
KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co	ISLAMABAD	6th Floor, State Life Building No 5		92	51282 5956
M Yousuf Adil Saleem & Co.	KARACHI	M Yousuf Adil Saleem & Co.	75350	21111	552626
M Yousuf Adil Saleem & Co.	LAHORE
M Yousuf Adil Saleem & Co.	MULTAN
M Yousuf Adil Saleem & Co.	ISLAMABAD
Mansoor Aslam Seraj Saleem, Chartered Accountants	KARACHI	Mansoor Aslam Seraj Saleem, Chartered Accountants	74200	2124	28858
Mansoor Aslam Seraj Saleem, Chartered Accountants	LAHORE		54000
Maqbool Haroon Shahid Safdar & Co.	LAHORE	Maqbool Haroon Shahid Safdar & Co.		587	64547
Nasir Javaid Maqsood Imran Chartered Accountants	LAHORE	Nasir Javaid Maqsood Imran Chartered Accountants	54000	42363	17511
ORIX Leasing Pakistan Limited	KARACHI	ORIX Leasing Pakistan Limited	74000	111	242424
Pace Pakistan Ltd (Worldcall Group)	LAHORE	Pace Pakistan Ltd (Worldcall Group)		42111	111603
Pakarab Fertilizers Limited	MULTAN	Pakarab Fertilizers Limited	60000	61	4572031
Pakistan Petroleum Limited	KARACHI	Pakistan Petroleum Limited	75530	2156	72440
Riaz Ahmad and Company	LAHORE	Riaz Ahmad and Company	54660	4257	18137
Riaz Ahmad and Company	ISLAMABAD		44000
Riaz Ahmad and Company	KARACHI		75400
Riaz Ahmad and Company	FAISALABAD		38000
Sarwars Chartered Accountants	LAHORE	Leeds Centre	54000		9221 92516369
Shell Gas LPG (Pakistan) Ltd	KARACHI	Shell Gas LPG (Pakistan) Ltd	75600
Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited	KARACHI	Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited	74000	21245	0
Telenor Pakistan (PvT) Limited	ISLAMABAD	Telenor Pakistan (PvT) Limited	44000	1113	45700
University of Lahore	LAHORE	The University of Lahore	54000
Zahid Jamil & Co. Chartered Accountants	FAISALABAD	Zahid Jamil & Co. Chartered Accountants	38000	41872	506568