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Examiner: Ann Irons
June 2010 F5 exam results
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Free ACCA notes Paper F5 December 2010
Download PDF file: ACCA F5 Course notes (4448)
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Paper F5 Articles:
(Specially for OpenTuition a free chapter from new book being published by Geoff Cordwell – the former examiner for Paper F5 who has set the June 2010 exam)
Understanding Performance Management – Geoff Cordwell
F5 Activity Based Costing
F5 Target costing and life cycle costing
F5 Throughput accounting and back-flush costing
F5 Transfer pricing
ACCA F5 Revision notes and lectures
June 2010 Revision notes are now available, To fully benefit we have also published revision lectures to help you with some answers from these notes >>
Exam Tips for Paper F5 (June 2010 Exams)
Question 1
Activity Based Costing
Question 2
Linear Programming or Decision Theory
Question 3
Budgeting written + preparation of flexed budget
Question 4
Mix & Yield variances
Question 5
Divisional performance measurement + transfer pricing
Please Note
Tips should not be relied on – they are only intelligent guesses.
Their only purpose is to give you suggestions for topics to concentrate on in your last few days of preparation. Do not exclude other topics from your overall preparation.
Past F5 Exam Questions for Practice
All Past F5 Questions are good for Practice.
Here is a list of good for practice questions for Paper F5 from OLD paper 2.4 Syllabus
You can find all these exams on this ACCA page>>
December 2002 – Q3 – Woodeezer – variances
June 2003 – Q2 – Storrs – forecasting
December 2003 – Q2 – Acred – budgeting
December 2003 – Q4 – Carat – variances
June 2004 – Q3 – Admer – ABC
December 2004 – Q2 – Mermus – variances
December 2004 – Q4 – Spring – ABC
June 2005 – Q2 – BRK – budgeting
June 2005 – Q3 – BRK – variances
December 2005 – Q2 – performance measurement
December 2005 – Q3 – Linacre – ABC
December 2005 – Q5 – Thorne – cash budget
June 2006 – Q3 – Ash – variances
June 2006 – Q4 – Sine – budgets
December 2006 – Q4 – standard costing
December 2006 – Q5 – Leysel – budgets / variances
June 2007 – Q2 – budgets
June 2007 – Q3 – Woodside – performance measurement
Live Lectures specially for June 2009 exams
- Download Planning & operational variance notes J’09 for lecture below F5 extra notes for June 2009 (356)
- June ‘09 Planning and operational variance
- Chapter 13 More variance analysis – Mix & Yield Introduction
- Chapter 13 More variance analysis – Mix & Yield Introduction Example 2
- Chapter 13 More variance analysis – Advanced Idle Time Variances
- Chapter 14 Financial Performance Measurement (part a)
- Chapter 14 Financial Performance Measurement (part b)
- Chapter 14 Financial Performance Measurement (part c)
- Chapter 15 Non-Financial Performance Measurement
- Chapter 16 Divisional Performance Measurement
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Audio Lectures for Paper F5
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Examiners Recommended Reading
C. Drury, Management and Cost Accounting (6th edition), Thomson.
C.T. Horngren, A. Bhimani, S.M Datar and G. Foster, Management and Cost Accounting Professional Question Supplement, Third Edition, Professional exam questions from past ACCA, ICAI and CIMA Papers with selected answers FT Prentice-Hall.
C. Emmanuel, D Otley, Accounting for Management Control (The Chapman & Hall Series in Accounting & Finance)
These books are recommended by the examiner . If you are having problems with a particular paper, or if you want to do extra reading out of interest, then you might them useful.
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