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This day is to help you perfect your business ideas, get access to funding, mentorship and development. It will help you perfect your business ideas, get access to funding through the Government’s Startup Loan initiative and most importantly help you get access to Mentorship and development. It is free of charge, however you must fill more

  In January 2013 the Civil Service, one of the top employers of graduates each year recruiting around 500 of the brightest students in the country, announced the launch of a fast track apprenticeship scheme that will match their graduate intake. A representative of the Civil Service stated that “We are committed to giving more more

The fortunes of two recent movies set me thinking about how we consider the passage of time when reporting an entity's financial position and performance. John Carter opened in March 2012, a century after the initial publication of the original Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels on which the film is based. After a poor opening weekend, headlines reported that Disney had spent its $250million budget on a flop and losses in excess of $100m were already being discussed. Movies and business... more

BPP Business School at Manchester St James’s Study Centre are hosting an insightful evening of branding revelations on Tuesday 13th November. We’re hoping to find out what’s behind the marketing success of big brands from some of the region’s best marketers. more

To help modern businesses become leaner, meaner and faster, BPP University College has developed a remarkable the BSc (Hons) Leadership, Enterprise and Management, dedicated to employee growth and giving individuals future-ready competencies and real life skills. more

Since 2012, the EducationInvestor Awards, presented by EducationInvestor Magazine, have recognised innovation and excellence in Britain’s education industry. BPP LM is a finalist in the ‘Educational Content Provider of the Year’ category, recognising excellence in the provision of content and outstanding contribution to the sector. Our competition includes Collins Education, GCSEPod, I Am Learning and more

With all the recent changes to CIPD qualifications, many of our CIPD students have been left wondering which one would be the next step for their career. We've provided answers to some of the most commonly asked questions. more

It gives us great 'pride' to introduce our new visual identity and refreshed website. So what’s with the new look? Puns aside, there's a strong rationale behind our new visual identity. 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

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

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

Amazon’s recent difficulties when discounting the new Lady Gaga album illustrate some of the issues with pricing strategy, as well potential pitfalls if you don’t think it through. It’s interesting and relevant stuff for all papers dealing with strategy and pricing, such as ACCA P3 and F5. No one could accuse Amazon of lacking determination. more

Some special pleading here. I chair our university’s publishing company. I worry as much as any manufacturer about the cost of print (a ‘non-strategic cost’), which includes holding stock, returns policies, stock write-offs, the ecological impact of paper, carbon footprints (or whatever we print people photocopy when they sit on the copier), recycling, forest stewardship, fire, glue, chiropractic or osteopathic bills (as students carry weighty more

A few years ago Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat” took the world by storm: it described the minutiae of globally distributed supply chains; parts of laptops being designed in some countries, shipped to others, assembled elsewhere.   It has become the common sense in political thinking that globalisation is (a) here already, with deep economic more

Those who have encountered, in whatever medium, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will know that the answer to ‘life, the universe and everything’ is exactly 42. However, it looks like this answer needs to be qualified and, as far as some human organisations are concerned, the number is, in fact, around 150. It seems more