Acca help

thekhalida1

thekhalida1

thekhalida1

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Hi there thinking of studying acca. I will be exempt for f1-f5 papers just wanting to know the best way to study for the rest and what people recomend. I prefer studying from books instead of inclass learning. Has anyone done them befpre and what did they use and from whom. Thanks
 
www.opentuition.com is a good free resource, but that's not book based. It has some notes but most of the content is from recorded lectures/videos.

I use BPP through work, which has all sorts of different study options including just text books. Not sure how much it costs to just get the text books though, as I do the online classroom courses which you can choose between recorded lectures or live scheduled lectures. All online/in-class courses include the textbook/notes.
 
If you're motivated then self-study is good. If you're not then I would look for the evening course. No point me recommending where to study as we don't have the same tuition available as in UK.

Do you have any accounting qualifications already? AAT, CAT?
 
I am currently studying ACCA, I was exempt from F1-F3 and I have passed F4, and currently studying F7 and F8 together.

I am similar to yourself and do not like studying in class however ACCA isn't a great topic to self-study, a mentor of some description is almost essential to some degree.

Because of this I am studying via Kaplan Online, you sit the classes at home with a live tutor and you get visibility of the virtual board, and the tutor walks you through the work book as if you were in a physical class. You can ask questions via the chat panel and they are answered almost immediately. This, in my mind, is superior to classroom based lessons, since sometimes it’s difficult to get your question heard in a class of ~25.

What is your prior experience to be able to get exempt from ACCA F1-F5?
 
I'm studying ACCA via home study entirely.

I'm using BPP textbooks and the G2G textbooks to get two different authors perspective on the same topics. Also using the lectures on opentuition and occasionally lectures on youtube, the technical articles in Student Accountant help too.

As said above if you are going to study solely by self study you will need a lot of motivation as well as self discipline to get through.
 
I attended the BPP courses. I mostly daydreamed through them, but the real benefit of them is that they give you the course notes - which are greatly condensed versions of the weighty textbooks. If you can source the course notes, I would recommend it (particularly the revision course ones).

Other than that, just max out on the past papers and study the "model" answers (they aren't answers you can realistically give, since they are far too long, but they cover all angles). Get to know the structure of the papers, patterns of questions (what stuff always comes up), and keep a look out for articles by the examiner of your paper appearing in the student ACCA magazine - it's usually them telegraphing an exam question for the next sitting.
 
thekhalida1 said:
You know where i can source the course notes
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When I started ACCA about 10 years ago, you could order them from BPP without attending the courses. But they soon stopped that (might be worth phoning and asking them, though). You would probably need to find someone who had attended and borrow them. Maybe check Ebay for the previous term's notes - they don't always change the syllabus between sittings so the notes stay relevant.
 
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