Over the years I have listened to many grumbles about the ACCA exam syllabuses and exam pass rates but few about how ACCA students prepare themselves for the actual exam. I have been teaching for some time now and I have a few grumbles which I wish to share with you so that you may reflect on your own style of learning. Dare I hope that my observations may help a few ACCA students to study more effectively and pass their respective ACCA exams?
The average ACCA student is a ‘coat of many colours’. So which type of student are YOU? Could this be you ….?
The Practice-freak is the ACCA student who short-cuts the syllabus by merely practising one question after another thus avoiding 'tedious' involvement in the detail of the topics concerned. A common variant on this style of learning is the 'Answer auditor' who short-cuts even further by simply checking through answers without even attempting the questions. This passive style of learning is non-functional. The 'Practice-freak'/'Answer Auditor' is often seen as the Single-dimensioner in the exam - the candidate who is unable to cope adequately with a question which has a multi-dimensional emphasis not previously examined.
So there it is. Here is one ACCA student caricature which is somewhat common (as are the other seven types we have posted) and dare I say may even be a version of your own behaviour. Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur. (Why do you laugh? With change of name the story is about you).
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Thursday, 21 April 2011
ACCA Revision Kit (practice questions and answers) – for ACCA F3 exam – now available from ACCA publishers TonySurridge.co.uk
A new TonySurridge.co.uk ACCA Study Guide is now available for the ACCA F3 subject. The ACCA F3 Practice Questions and Answers E-book is written specifically in line with the ACCA F3 syllabus and is designed to replicate the same type of multiple-choice layout, in order to condition and prepare the students for their Computer Based ACCA Exams.
Offering over 550 practice questions with detailed answers, this new TonySurridge ACCA revision guide is fundamental resource, and promotionally priced from just £3 each, it offers unbelievably good value for money in terms hen studying for ACCA. Head to the website for full details and even download a free sample chapter. www.tonysurridge.co.uk/ecommerce/Exam+Material
The ACCA course materials providers TonySurridge.co.uk have a range of ACCA study and ACCA revision guides available from their online store, downloadable as E-books for instant access and immediate learning. As an award winning lecturer himself, Tony has gone on to lecturer numerous other ACCA students who have in turn progressed to win global and regional ACCA exam awards.
Thursday, 2 December 2010
ACCA lecturer – Tony Surridge – teaching in Mauritius for intensive ACCA P3 Revision Course
Specialist ACCA lecturer, Tony Surridge is scheduled to teach in Mauritius this December, performing a 3-day intensive ACCA revision course for the P3 (Business Analysis) subject.
Numerous students have already registered their express interest to attend this ACCA revision course, from the award winning accountancy lecturer, with numbers growing by the day.
ACCA students are looking to cram in some last minute, and all important revision before their ACCA exams, and the help provided by Tony has always been welcomed warmly. The ACCA P3 exam – Business Analysis – is timetabled for Wednesday 15th December 2010.
As part of this ACCA course, these lucky students will be one of the first to receive Tony’s latest ACCA revision manual – titled “P3 – Overview of Analytical Models”, in addition to their comprehensive core learning materials – which again is authored, published and provided by Tony’s company www.tonysurridge.co.uk
A spokesperson for his web company reported they are still receiving a constant flurry of requests regarding this highly sought-after course, even right up until the registration deadline.
Tony has taught in numerous ACCA colleges, globally, and the number of ACCA students attending his classes just keeps growing year on year.
One admin member at www.tonysurridge.co.uk commented cheerfully about their latest additional workload: “If numbers keep growing like this every time we announce a new course, we may have to start adopting a waiting list for those wanting to attend. It is advisable to book early on any ACCA course Tony Surridge is assigned to, if this latest Mauritius case is anything to go by. We have exceeded last year’s registration figures by over 50%, and in fact had to look at changing seminar rooms to hold the newly increased capacity. We were lucky to meet the increased demand this time, but in future we may have difficulties – we do suggest booking early so as not to be disappointed. Our intensive ACCA revision courses are extremely popular amongst the students, and Tony doesn’t like to turn away students who need his help. He gives everything to the students, and his concern over their studies is heart-warming.”
For further information about Tony Surridge’s ACCA revision courses, or ACCA core study, and to express interest or register to attend his next sitting near you, make contact through www.tonysurridge.co.uk
www.TonySurridge.co.uk is an accountancy resource website, publisher and online retailer of ACCA study materials, dedicated to accounting and finance careers. For full details of the services and materials provided, please go to their website. Registration is free to receive news alerts and product announcements.
Numerous students have already registered their express interest to attend this ACCA revision course, from the award winning accountancy lecturer, with numbers growing by the day.
ACCA students are looking to cram in some last minute, and all important revision before their ACCA exams, and the help provided by Tony has always been welcomed warmly. The ACCA P3 exam – Business Analysis – is timetabled for Wednesday 15th December 2010.
As part of this ACCA course, these lucky students will be one of the first to receive Tony’s latest ACCA revision manual – titled “P3 – Overview of Analytical Models”, in addition to their comprehensive core learning materials – which again is authored, published and provided by Tony’s company www.tonysurridge.co.uk
A spokesperson for his web company reported they are still receiving a constant flurry of requests regarding this highly sought-after course, even right up until the registration deadline.
Tony has taught in numerous ACCA colleges, globally, and the number of ACCA students attending his classes just keeps growing year on year.
One admin member at www.tonysurridge.co.uk commented cheerfully about their latest additional workload: “If numbers keep growing like this every time we announce a new course, we may have to start adopting a waiting list for those wanting to attend. It is advisable to book early on any ACCA course Tony Surridge is assigned to, if this latest Mauritius case is anything to go by. We have exceeded last year’s registration figures by over 50%, and in fact had to look at changing seminar rooms to hold the newly increased capacity. We were lucky to meet the increased demand this time, but in future we may have difficulties – we do suggest booking early so as not to be disappointed. Our intensive ACCA revision courses are extremely popular amongst the students, and Tony doesn’t like to turn away students who need his help. He gives everything to the students, and his concern over their studies is heart-warming.”
For further information about Tony Surridge’s ACCA revision courses, or ACCA core study, and to express interest or register to attend his next sitting near you, make contact through www.tonysurridge.co.uk
www.TonySurridge.co.uk is an accountancy resource website, publisher and online retailer of ACCA study materials, dedicated to accounting and finance careers. For full details of the services and materials provided, please go to their website. Registration is free to receive news alerts and product announcements.
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Increasing ACCA Numbers
Increasing ACCA Numbers?
By Ali Ahmad on 29th April 2010 for TonySurridge.co.uk
Sitting with a friend at a coffee shop discussing about the current global crunch and wondering when things will take good shape, I came to know that our accountancy body, i.e., ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), has grown by more than 400,000 students. This number is huge enough to fill 4 stadiums equivalent to 4 and a half Wembley Stadiums, London.
I rechecked the statistics and came to know that my friend was wrong. The figure is actually 404,000 students, according to one corporate group*, a rise of almost 10% from last year. According to the website, ACCA also opened offices in Brussels, Bangladesh, Chengdu and Macau.
So the question in my mind was, can we really accommodate all these ACCA students?
With the global economy growth rate of less than 10% and with the student’s growth rate of more than ten percent seems to widen the gap. I talked with Mr. Asrar ul Haq of Alhamd Academy about this issue and he denied to give any comments on global effect but he mentioned that in Pakistan, things are getting worse for even accountants. Reasons? He said that with growing cost of business and high competition from neighboring countries, companies started to cut their expenses and unluckily accountants, in their perception, is a luxury which they cannot afford now. But Mr. Asrar also believes that if the accountancy community started to behave more proactively and prove that they are visionary and trust worthy, things could change for both, the businesses and accountants.
Despite claims from the industry that there is a rise in demand from accountants, many still doubt it. I talked to a group of students and they said that before they entered into the qualification, there was less competition than now. We believe that now we have to equip ourselves with additional skills because of the demanding employers taking advantage of current economic turmoil. We talked with Mr. Bilal Siddiqui, resident editor of Pakistanacca.com in Karachi. He rejects the claim from the students about the employers taking advantage of the situation. “Actually the world is moving fast due to its technological advancements. No one knew about Youtube and Facebook a few years ago and now IT students are learning new courses to develop applications and games on these new mediums. The demanded IT area in year 2007 were Facebook application developer, which never existed two years before that. How can we (accountants) stay away from not meeting the requirements of advancing needs of economy, he added.
He further argues, “Students, worldwide, are just considering that a single qualification is enough. They have to realize that this is not the matter of filling jobs. It’s not like the companies are JUST filling positions. If they cannot find a competitive manager, they simply leave the post unfilled.
So do you think these future four hundred thousand potential ACCA accountants could be employed? We asked him.
“I am not sure about everyone and any particular region but the beauty of ACCA is that students can move anywhere in the world and global crises are not exactly global anymore. If there are few jobs in one region then there are more jobs in another. Things are not as bad as we sometimes believe”.
So, when I conclude the discussion in a nut shell, I see that the question wasn’t set right. It should not be discussed whether companies can provide enough jobs to employ all those future affiliates, it should be more like, Can we train our youth to think themselves as a future Job producer (entrepreneur in short) instead of job seeker. But again, one more question which disturbs me, is does our field have any capacity to innovate new services? Just give me five new services that accountancy related companies could introduce?
Click here to search for ACCA jobs, Accounting Jobs and Finance Jobs within the UK.
Click here for more help and materials with your ACCA study
By Ali Ahmad on 29th April 2010 for TonySurridge.co.uk
Sitting with a friend at a coffee shop discussing about the current global crunch and wondering when things will take good shape, I came to know that our accountancy body, i.e., ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), has grown by more than 400,000 students. This number is huge enough to fill 4 stadiums equivalent to 4 and a half Wembley Stadiums, London.
I rechecked the statistics and came to know that my friend was wrong. The figure is actually 404,000 students, according to one corporate group*, a rise of almost 10% from last year. According to the website, ACCA also opened offices in Brussels, Bangladesh, Chengdu and Macau.
So the question in my mind was, can we really accommodate all these ACCA students?
With the global economy growth rate of less than 10% and with the student’s growth rate of more than ten percent seems to widen the gap. I talked with Mr. Asrar ul Haq of Alhamd Academy about this issue and he denied to give any comments on global effect but he mentioned that in Pakistan, things are getting worse for even accountants. Reasons? He said that with growing cost of business and high competition from neighboring countries, companies started to cut their expenses and unluckily accountants, in their perception, is a luxury which they cannot afford now. But Mr. Asrar also believes that if the accountancy community started to behave more proactively and prove that they are visionary and trust worthy, things could change for both, the businesses and accountants.
Despite claims from the industry that there is a rise in demand from accountants, many still doubt it. I talked to a group of students and they said that before they entered into the qualification, there was less competition than now. We believe that now we have to equip ourselves with additional skills because of the demanding employers taking advantage of current economic turmoil. We talked with Mr. Bilal Siddiqui, resident editor of Pakistanacca.com in Karachi. He rejects the claim from the students about the employers taking advantage of the situation. “Actually the world is moving fast due to its technological advancements. No one knew about Youtube and Facebook a few years ago and now IT students are learning new courses to develop applications and games on these new mediums. The demanded IT area in year 2007 were Facebook application developer, which never existed two years before that. How can we (accountants) stay away from not meeting the requirements of advancing needs of economy, he added.
He further argues, “Students, worldwide, are just considering that a single qualification is enough. They have to realize that this is not the matter of filling jobs. It’s not like the companies are JUST filling positions. If they cannot find a competitive manager, they simply leave the post unfilled.
So do you think these future four hundred thousand potential ACCA accountants could be employed? We asked him.
“I am not sure about everyone and any particular region but the beauty of ACCA is that students can move anywhere in the world and global crises are not exactly global anymore. If there are few jobs in one region then there are more jobs in another. Things are not as bad as we sometimes believe”.
So, when I conclude the discussion in a nut shell, I see that the question wasn’t set right. It should not be discussed whether companies can provide enough jobs to employ all those future affiliates, it should be more like, Can we train our youth to think themselves as a future Job producer (entrepreneur in short) instead of job seeker. But again, one more question which disturbs me, is does our field have any capacity to innovate new services? Just give me five new services that accountancy related companies could introduce?
Click here to search for ACCA jobs, Accounting Jobs and Finance Jobs within the UK.
Click here for more help and materials with your ACCA study
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