...RELEVANT TO ACCA QUALIFICATION PAPERS P1, P3, P4, P5, P6 AND P7 How to tackle exams: a marker’s perspective I have been lecturing students for more than 15 years (usually over 400 at every sitting) preparing them for their final level strategic management paper, and my advice echoes many of the points made in the examiner’s recent video presentation. I decided to become a marker to help me understand why apparently well-prepared students performed badly in the actual exam. I wanted some insight because, whenever a student marginally failed, they would insist that they did not understand why. This article will hopefully show how the good advice given by your tutor and the examiner often falls on deaf ears. In my marking experience I have seen how students who marginally fail do so not as a result of lack of knowledge, but because of very basic mistakes in technique – many of which are mentioned in the examiner’s presentation. The points considered in this the article are highlighted in bold and address some of these basic mistakes. Where appropriate, I have tried to back up these points from my experience as a Paper P3 marker. The examiner identified the following key points: • • • • • However you study, ensure that you cover the complete syllabus Undertake practice scenario questions under realistic time constraints Practice your handwriting in three-hour sessions Read widely, keep up to date, be aware of global trends and issues Revise properly and comprehensively. Don’t...
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...Office check Student’s signature Enrolment Form | ACCA Part-time Courses 2011/12 Please make sure that you complete all sections of this application form clearly in black or blue ink and block capitals and return by Post/ Fax/ Email to: LSBF, Admissions, 9 Holborn, London, EC1N 2LL, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 207 823 2303, Fax: +44 (0) 207 8232302, Email: admissions@lsbf.org.uk Please note that an English translation should accompany all non-English documents. For further up-to-date information about the application process please refer to www.lsbf.org.uk/students/apply.html Student Details Title: * Mr Ms Mrs Miss Other (please specify)...................................................................................................................... Surname: *....................................................................................................... First Name:*....................................................................... Home address:*............................................................................................................……........................................................................ City:* …………………...........................................Country: *.................................................................... Postcode: ................................ Correspondence Address:* (if different from home address)….............................................................................................
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...ACCA QUALIFICATION COURSE NOTES Paper P3 BUSINESS ANALYSIS JUNE 2012 EXAMINATIONS OpenTuition Course Notes can be downloaded FREE from www.OpenTuition.com Copyright belongs to OpenTuition.com - please do not support piracy by downloading from other websites. Visit opentuition.com for the latest updates, watch free video lectures and get free tutors’ support on the forums To fully benefit from these notes do not forget to watch free ACCA Lectures on our website Free ACCA Lectures and course notes by Paper (on line on http://opentuition.com/acca/) F1 Accountant in Business / FAB Foundations in Accountancy F2 Management Accounting / FMA Foundations in Accountancy F3 Financial Accounting / FFA Foundations in Accountancy F4 Corporate & Business Law (English & Global) F5 Performance Management F6 Taxation (UK) F7 Financial Reporting F8 Audit and Assurance F9 Financial Management P1 Governance, Risk & Ethics P2 Corporate Reporting P3 Business Analysis P4 Advanced Financial Management P5 Advanced Performance Management P6 Advanced Taxation (UK) P7 Advanced Audit & Assurance THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE For the latest free course notes, free lectures and forum support please visit opentuition.com/acca Paper P3 JUNE 2012 EXAMINATIONS For latest course notes, free audio & video lectures, support and forums please visit Paper P3 i JUNE 2012 EXAMINATIONS Paper P3 SYLLABUS 1 Aim To apply relevant knowledge, skills, and exercise...
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...Table of Contents Chapter 1 Taxation overview---------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 General principles ---------------------------------------------------------------- 8 3 Specific principles on gross income------------------------------------------- 12 4 Pension receipts and payments------------------------------------------------- 22 5 Double Taxation------------------------------------------------------------------ 29 6 General deductions----------------------------------------------------------------34 7 Expenditure-------------------------------------------------------------------------38 8 Capital allowances-----------------------------------------------------------------48 9 Leasing------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 60 10 Exemptions------------------------------------------------------------------------- 66 11 Partnership-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 71 12 Farmers------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 76 13 Miners------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 85 14 Exports------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 98 15 Capital gains------------------------------------------------------------------------ 101 16 Hire purchase-----------------------------------------------------------------------...
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...Acknowledgments ix Acknowledgments This book owes a great deal to the mental energy of several generations of scholars. As an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, Francis Wilson made me aware of the importance of migrant labour and Robin Hallett inspired me, and a generation of students, to study the African past. At the School of Oriental and African Studies in London I was fortunate enough to have David Birmingham as a thesis supervisor. I hope that some of his knowledge and understanding of Lusophone Africa has found its way into this book. I owe an equal debt to Shula Marks who, over the years, has provided me with criticism and inspiration. In the United States I learnt a great deal from ]eanne Penvenne, Marcia Wright and, especially, Leroy Vail. In Switzerland I benefitted from the friendship and assistance of Laurent Monier of the IUED in Geneva, Francois Iecquier of the University of Lausanne and Mariette Ouwerhand of the dépurtement évangélrlyue (the former Swiss Mission). In South Africa, Patricia Davison of the South African Museum introduced me to material culture and made me aware of the richness of difference; the late Monica Wilson taught me the fundamentals of anthropology and Andrew Spiegel and Robert Thornton struggled to keep me abreast of changes in the discipline; Sue Newton-King and Nigel Penn brought shafts of light from the eighteenthcentury to bear on early industrialism. Charles van Onselen laid a major part of the intellectual foundations on...
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...FRANK WOOD’S business accounting TENTH EDITION 1 FRANK WOOD & ALAN SANGSTER Additional student support at www.pearsoned.co.uk/wood FRANK WOOD’S business accounting 1 Visit the Business Accounting, tenth edition Companion Website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/wood to find valuable student learning material including: l l l l l l Learning objectives for each chapter Multiple choice questions to help test your learning Review questions and answers Links to relevant sites on the web Searchable online glossary Flashcards to test your knowledge of key terms and definitions Frank Wood 1926–2000 FRANK WOOD’S business accounting TENTH EDITION 1 FRANK WOOD BSc (Econ), FCA and ALAN SANGSTER BA, MSc, Cert TESOL, CA Pearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate Harlow Essex CM20 2JE and Associated Companies throughout the world. Visit us on the World Wide Web at www.pearsoned.co.uk First edition published in 1967 Second edition published under the Longman imprint in 1972 Third edition published in 1979 Fourth edition published in 1984 Fifth edition published in 1989 Sixth edition published in 1993 Seventh edition published in 1996 Eighth edition published under the Financial Times Pitman Publishing imprint in 1999 Ninth edition published in 2002 Tenth edition published 2005 © Frank Wood 1967 © Longman Group UK Limited 1972, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1993 © Pearson Professional Limited 1996 © Financial Times Professional Limited 1999 © Pearson Education Limited...
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