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Paper 1.1 Preparing Financial Statements * Preparation of a balance sheet or P%26amp;L account for a sole trader. * Consolidated balance sheet for a company.
* Calculation of various ratios with a discussion of the pros and cons of ratio anlaysis. * Incomplete records for a sole trader. * Discussion of accounting concepts and possibly problems with historic cost accounting. * Accounting for non current assets.
Paper 1.2 Financial Information for Management * Cost classification and behaviour. * Material, labour, and overhead costs. * Absorption and marginal costing. * Process costing. * Standard costing (includes variances). * CVP analysis (includes break-even). * Pricing methods. * Relevant costing. * Limiting factors and linear programming. PQ tip: The vast majority of the marks in this paper will be for calculations.
Paper 1.3 Managing People * Leadership %26amp; motivation. * Organisational culture. * Health %26amp; safety. * Delegation. * Organisational structures.
Paper 2.1 Information Systems * Business strategy and IS/IT strategy. * Trends in IT. * Outsourcing. * Recharging IS/IT costs. * Legacy systems. * Projects: quality plans, slippage. * Systems development methodologies (see Student Accountant article, August 2005). * Data flow diagram, business event model. * External design, data input. * Software packages v bespoke. * Security, physical, passwords, validation and encryption. * Prototyping CASE and 4GL. * Quality management, quality assurance, quality control, V-model. * Changeover methods. * Metrics (Student Accountant article February 2005). * Maintenance.
Paper 2.2 Corporate %26amp; Business Law * Delegated legislation. * Doctrine of precedent. * Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998. * Offer and acceptance. * Consideration. * Exclusion clauses. * Breach %26amp; remedies. * Powers and duties of agents. * Limited liability partnerships. * Duties of employers and employees. * Discrimination. * Wrongful and unfair dismissal. * Veil of incorporation and lifting the veil. * Content and purpose of memorandum and articles of association. * Raising and maintenance of share capital. * Debentures and charges. * Directors’ duties and powers. * Company insolvency.
Paper 2.3 Business Taxation * Trading loss relief with capital allowances, industrial buildings allowances and some calculation of chargeable gain. * Income tax computation with benefits as well as Schedule D case I/II implications leading to income tax and possible gains tax payable. * Computational and discursive question dealing with registration/return misdeclaration penalty. * Capital gains tax shares – bonus/rights/ takeover and rollover and gift relief. * Group losses with gains group implications. * Partnership with losses. * Employment v self employment with income and tax and NIC calculations. * Corporate tax loss relief. PQ tip: Terminal loss relief for both sole traders and limited companies has not been examined. Paper 2.4 Financial Management %26amp; Control * Investment appraisal. * Working capital management – trade credit and cash. * Performance evaluation. * Throughput accounting and theory of constraints. * Budget preparation plus written part on budgeting.
Paper 2.5 Financial Reporting * Consolidated financial statements is a regular in the compulsory section. * Published financial statements of a limited company. * Cash flow statements, in accordance with FRS1/IAS7. * Interpretation of financial statements ratio analysis and assessing financial performance. * Tangible and intangible non-current assets. * Revenue recognition and FRS18. PQ tip: Watch out for FRS11 %26amp; 19 and SSAP21.
Paper 2.6 Audit %26amp; Internal Review * Corporate governance (this has been moved from paper 3.1.). * Combined code provisions and the rational behind it. * Functions of an audit committee. * Internal controls and internal audit. * Audit procedures, such as planning and testing.
Paper 3.1 Audit %26amp; Assurance Services * Identify business risk, suggesting controls to mitigate the risks. * Planning, risk assessment, long-term contracts. * Audit evidence on tangible fixed assets (FRS15), provisions (FRS12) and long-term loans. * Ethical issues – the fundamental principles of integrity and objectivity. * Corporate social responsibility reporting. * Audit reports involving significant uncertainty relating to going concern. * Emphasis of matters treatments. * Auditors liability or implications of IFRSs. Paper 3.2 Advanced Taxation * IHT with share valuations including life and death tax calculations. * VAT penalties possibly late registration or default surcharge. * Corporation tax losses probably in a group including capital gains and rollover relief. * Comparison of sole trader and company taxation including a discussion of personal service companies (IR35). PQ tip: Do not ignore the most recent changes in the syllabus, they are invariably examined.
Paper 3.3 Performance Management * Contribution based decision-making. * Practical aspects of pricing policy. * Performance evaluation. * The strategic framework. * The learning effect.
Paper 3.4 Business Information Management * Strategy models (SWOT, PEST, Porter). * Nolan’s ’Stage Hypothesis’. * Checkland’s ’Soft Systems Methodology’. * Earl’s ’System’s Audit Grid’ and ’Three Leg’ analysis. * McFarlan’s ’Applications Portfolio’ and Peppard’s adaptation. * Parson’s ’6 IS Strategies’. * Zuboff’s ’Automate, Informate, Transformate’. * The ’Three Stage’ change process and ’Unfreeze, Change, Re-freeze’. * BPR and CSFs. * Soft and hard approaches. * Managing change.
* Help with our tips came from BPP, CAMS, FTC, LCA, LondonSam, LVMT and Reed Business School
See the November issue of PQ Magazine for an in-depth look at * Paper 3.5 Strategic Business Planning * Paper 3.6 Advanced Corporate Reporting * Paper 3.7 Strategic Financial Management
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