ACCA F5 – PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PRE-COURSE STUDY PLAN – June 2012 exam session
1. Your materials Your materials comprise: full set of Kaplan books (Complete text, Exam Kit, Pocket Notes) on-line learning tools at www.en-gage.co.uk – electronic versions of books, audiovisual presentations of key topics and selected questions, tests and other material Course notes package (CN) incl. introductory section, relevant technical articles and past exams not yet published in the Exam Kit (December 2010).
2. Pre-course work - checklist
Topic
Source
Introduction Your subject overview
www.en-gage.co.uk
Introductory section of Course Notes (reading)
Course Notes
Pre-course study topics Chapter 1: Review Traditional Costing Methods
Kaplan Complete Text / en-gage
Chapter 7: Review Budgeting
Kaplan Complete Text / en-gage
Chapter 9: Review basic variances
Kaplan Complete Text / en-gage
‘So you think you know management accounting’ – Review of topics from F2, especially if you took the F2 exemption
En-gage
Completed
Pre-course testing Pre-tuition test 1: Cost behavior
En-gage / Testing
Pre-tuition test 2: Absorption costing
En-gage / Testing
Pre-tuition test 3: Expected values
En-gage / Testing
Pre-tuition test 4: Relevant costing
En-gage / Testing
Pre-tuition test 5: Limiting factors
En-gage / Testing
Pre-tuition test: 6: Budgeting
En-gage / Testing
Pre-tuition test 7: Forecasting
En-gage / Testing
Pre-tuition test 8: Variances
En-gage / Testing
Further recommended studying Technical articles
included in CN package
Pilot paper questions
Exam Kit
Key topics (question practice)
En-gage / Learning
- Apply your knowledge - Question Debrief