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It’s interesting to see in this recent report by the Confederation of British Industry that, compared with universities and further education colleges, private providers are the preferred option when it comes to training people for work. Private providers are found to be the most common choice for employers using external provision – 80% of firms more

This blog post marks the start of your last week of Stage 2 – you should now know everything you need to know about Project Management! Remember that this makes up 40% of the syllabus and, therefore, 40% of your exam paper.  We often see the examiner overlapping project management with other parts of the more

If you are studying with us, there has been some good discussion on the forums this week, so log on if you haven’t yet done so!   In particular, there is a detailed discussion of Q1 from the BPP study text on Stakeholders and EPS.  This is useful to go through once you’ve covered chapters more

How are things going for you on CIMA E2?!!  Just a few points to keep you going and moving into Stage Two… Ending Stage One (already!) OK – so Stage One is theoretically coming to an end. Do not worry if you have had a slow start – you still have time. But it is more

I appreciate that the volume of material for ACCA F6 Taxation can seem a little daunting, but the sooner you get stuck in to chapter two in the BPP Course Notes and Text the better, as this is where the important stuff starts. Don’t forget to use the study planner to help guide you. I suggest more

Hello and welcome to your BPP ACCA F4 Law (Global) Online Classroom Course.  I’m Sam and, for those of you who have joined the F4 Global course, I’ll be  your BPP online classroom tutor throughout this course.  I’m a BPP tutor based at BPP Bristol UK and I teach Law and Financial Reporting subjects across CIMA, ACCA, more

At this point in Stage Two, you should have got your teeth into Project Management. This represents 40% of the syllabus and is therefore integral to your success in the exam. The examiner will be looking for you to understand the overall process (Initiation, Planning, Execution, Control, Closing) enough to be able to give meaningful more

If all is going to plan, you should now have got your teeth into the Preseen information for this year’s exam.  Stage One forms the foundation for everything you’re going to do right up to and including the real exam.  This means that time and effort invested at this stage will reap great rewards but any more

Hi and welcome to ACCA F5 (L) Performance Management! My name is Pippa Black and this is the first of many posts you’ll receive from me over the next few months leading up to your Performance Management exam in December.  A little about me – I joined BPP as a tutor in 2000 after working more

Welcome to your T4 TOPCIMA Online Classroom Course!  My name is David Culley and I’ll be your tutor from now until your exam at the end of November. T4 is unique TOPCIMA is an unusual exam, in that it requires you to demonstrate your commercial skills.  The object of this course is therefore to give you more

Now that we’re five weeks into the course, you’ll know that my main mantra is the importance of applying what you are learning rather than just learning and churning it.  With this in mind, your first opportunity to get personal feedback on how well you are doing this is coming up… Course Exam 1 is more

Having spent two weeks getting to grips with the contents of the Pre-seen, this week moves on to Stage 2.  The objective here is to understand the industry so that the advice you give in the exam makes commercial sense. It’s not very often that I tell students not to do too much work, but more

If all is going to plan, you should now be getting your teeth into Project Management (E2).  Would it come as a surprise to learn that the CIMA pass rate for E2 is the lowest of all three management papers?  I highlight this now because, when you see that the Course Notes are not technically more

First let me introduce myself. My name is Clare Bentata and for those of you studying with us online I am going to be posting for this paper right up until the exam on Tuesday 6 December. We won’t all love tax but… Ideally, I would like to convince you all to love tax as much more

Hopefully you are progressing well with your studies and the bank holiday gave an opportunity for any needed extra time! Taking financial risks We now move into Stage 2, which covers most of the material on financial risk. This is a critical part of the syllabus – it accounts for 35% of the syllabus weighting more

Good exam technique is very important for E2!  Think of it as being a good communicator – making your work user friendly to the marker. Students often ask me how to structure an answer. Firstly, well done – because structure is the route to a good exam technique and a good mark. For example, let us consider a more