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@chebirr said:
hi
how many comparators are students allow to use aside the main casestudy chosen?

I suggest you to use one competitor/Industry Average due to word limit. you may face word limitation in case of selecting more than one competitor.

Let me know if you have any further question.

Regards,

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Hello Julia,

As you mentioned that you completed Ethics Module already and ACCA acknowledged too. then you will be fine to pursue your OBU Bsc Degree. you must check your status in your account/transcript which shows your eligibility. Let me know if I assist you further.

Regards,
Ali Farooq – Bsc. Mentor (ACCA and CPA USA)

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@Michael

Hope you are doing well. What I say Its better to have BSC degree. It will be helpful for you to get job on the basis of graduation. you can avail good opportunities to take further qualification such as CPA USA, CPA CGA, or any Master program.

you will get 180 European Credit Transfer.

what else you need ? everything will be in your hand. Just make perfect thesis by getting proper mentoring from competent Mentor and achieve high Grade. forget about class.

My friend he is living in Maryland USA, He got admission for Master program from top USA university on the basis of BSC and ACCA affiliation. Hope for the best.

Hope the answer of the question.

Regards,
Bsc Registered Mentor and ACCA Member

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@roop1234

you can select for your RAP. and make sure you will have sufficient information for both companies in India. If you do find more information in India then you should evaluate those annual reports otherwise select both companies in the UK.

Regards,

Ali Farooq
BSC registered Mentor

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If you are asking about value of BSc degree in the Middle East Job Market. I spent two years in Dubai. Employers are just happy to see your Graduate degree whatever you have either from Pakistan or UK. Actually you are getting BSC degree on the basis of ACCA by submitting thesis only. you are not eligible to get personal or academic reference. You should focus to achieve good average marks in ACCA ultimately it will be helpful to get higher class in BSC degree. Grade will be varied on your quality of the project.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@rayman417

I can give you best advise. you have two option.

First option: You can align or adjust only Profit and Loss account by adding half year income and expense, you can not touch balance sheet figures you know what I mean. If you chose this option It will change complete picture your ratios result, you have to support your evaluation by providing reasons from authentic sources. i.e annual reports , director reports, other independent sources. I can conclude that It will create unnecessary differences.

Second option: you have to evaluate three year performance. 2015, 2014 & 2013 irrespective of different reporting period. you can highlight this limitation under part two and explain how you work on it.

Further, you can review six months result of the competitor if you can find significant change you can incorporate in your evaluation by maintaining word limit.

Many students face this issue (different accounting period) and they prefer to select second option..

Hope the answer of the question,

Regards,
Ali farooq
BSC Registered Mentor and ACCA Member USA Chapter

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@Chloe

Hi hope you are doing well.

i suggest students to select the following topics

TOPIC 8: Evaluation of Business and Financial Performance Over Three year period.

AND TOPIC 19
AN ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF THE FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF A MERGER BETWEEN TWO ORGANISATIONS OR OF THE ACQUISITION OF ONE ORGANISATION BY ANOTHER.

Both are interesting topics and you are already familiar with them in your ACCA studies plus these topics will be helpful for you in future to get job as a Financial Analyst/Advisory Associate. Most of the companies are doing acquisition frequently these days all around the world. they are looking Financial Analyst who can join and contribute their role in acquisition.

Hope the answer of the question.

Regards,
Ali farooq
BSC Registered Mentor

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@sony98

Hi. hope you are doing well.

you can chose different company where you can find individual accounts and make your life easy. If you can find individual accounts of CIPLA then you dont have to discuss about its subsidiaries and write balance report. You can not exceed your word limit it will give very bad impression and will effect on your result..

Anything else I can help you.

Regards,
Ali farooq
BSC registered Mentor

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roop1234

You will bring all these issues to the attention of your project mentor, He/she guides you step by step and develop your research skills.

I suggest you to select companies from same countries because you will analyze Business and Financial performance over three year period. to keep balancing your report you will have to have reliable information from different sources to help you end your report within word limit. Both countries have different business and financial environment and how will you make sure your analysis is more meaningful and like with like,

You can select any of the following companies for your research project

Novartis
Pfizer
Roche
Sanofi
Merck & Co.
Johnson & Johnson
GlaxoSmithKline
AstraZeneca
Gilead Sciences
Takeda
AbbVie

Keep in mind you can find different sources easily during your project, only annual report is not enough to prove your deep research. most of the information students access online. Does this sound good to you

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@roop1234

Hi Roop,

There is an easy process to select your project Mentor. You can either select in your area or online based Mentor.

You will need a registered project mentor to assist you with your RAP, by providing guidance and advice on your RAP and also to verify that you made an oral
presentation at the end of your project research

You will find detailed guidance on page 18 of bsc info pack.

https://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/ACCA_Global/Students/bsc/IP2015-16.pdf

Kindly register yourself as a mentee on http://www.oxfordbrookesmentoring.co.uk and select your Mentor.

Good luck in your search.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor & ACCA Member USA Chapter.

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@darkangel5

First of all you will see core services of your main company and have to evaluate the significance of Cargo business and it’s revenue. If it is then you need to highlight separately you can not ignore major line of business of the company.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@denise87

I am understanding your question. Suppose If your main company is using IFRS and Competitor is preparing Financial Statements under GAAP. first question should be raised in your mind whether both accounting practice are acceptable? Answer is yes yes. If both are acceptable then you will not find major variances, significant difference. but for save

Otherwise you can share link of financial statements I will review and try to give you my best advise how to handle situation. Whatever option you chose please write appropriate reason under limitation heading in part two to make your report understandable for examiner and inform them how you overcome this issue.

Hope the answer of the question,

Regards,
ALI FAROOQ
OBU Registered Mentor

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@hasan9494

Most of the Universities in the USA and Canada recognized BSC Hons but it goes through an evaluation process. If you are planning to study in the USA/Candad for Master program or any professional qualification such as CPA USA and CPA CGA. Each university has own evaluation process or agency (Evaluation Firm).

Plus Universities require students to pass GMAT and other Placement Test for getting admission.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@ahmed

Please read carefully.

Q1 Is the BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting recognised in the country in which Ilive?

The BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting is equivalent to any undergraduate Honours degree undertaken at a UK university and is recognised by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). You will have to ask your own higher education authority if the BSc is recognised in your own country.

Q2) Can you provide me with my Grade Point Average?

The BSc in Applied Accounting programme does not currently operate a GPA system. The programme is considering implementing the GPA system alongside the current UK degree classification, subject to agreement with ACCA. The University
has launched its GPA system for on-campus programmes starting in 2013.

Q3) How many credits is the degree worth?

360 credits or 180 European Credit Transfer System credits.

Q4) Can you provide me with a personal or academic reference?

As the programme is a distance learning course, we are unable to provide academic or personal references. However, we are able to provide award confirmation letters and /or transcripts.

Addition, Most of the Universities in the USA and Canada recognized BSC Hons but it goes through an evaluation process. If you are planning to study in the USA for Master program or any professional qualification such as CPA USA and CPA CGA. You can prepare yourself to eligible. There is many success stories of students who made their career in Europe, USA and Canada. Students should select right mentor to give them right direction.

If you are asking about value of BSc degree in the Middle East Job Market. I spent two years in Dubai. Employers are just happy to see your Graduate degree whatever you have either from Pakistan or UK. Actually you are getting BSC degree on the basis of ACCA by submitting thesis only. you are not eligible to get personal or academic reference. You should focus to achieve good average marks in ACCA ultimately it will be helpful to get higher class in BSC degree. Grade will be varied on your quality of the project. If you saved average 60 marks then you will get upper second class otherwise lower second.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@ember,

First of all you should read Bsc info pack 2015/2016 and make a list of questions.

I will be happy to answer you. If you have any specific question, feel free to ask me.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@namugenze

OBU has not bound you to select company for your country only. You can select companies from any country. You can find lot of companies from Africa, Asia, United States and United Kingdom. In the United States, all public listed companies have been following Sabon-Oxley act and and reporting more financial disclosures.

to make your analyzing more meaningful you should select companies from same country otherwise you will have to evaluate different economic, Financial and business environment.

There is a major limitation of word limit. You can not exceed beyond 7500 in your research report.

Regards,
ALI FAROOQ
OBU Registered Mentor

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@ridwanulfirdous

Please visit below mentioned link and read page 3 of Latest BSc info Pack 2015/2016

https://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/ACCA_Global/Students/bsc/IP2015-16.pdf

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@Bakhtawer

You should see primary / core services of the company if it meets your requirement then you can analysis on overall basis and do not require to separate them. If You think there is a limitation you can explain in the heading of “Limitation and tell how you overcome this problem”

OBU clearly mentioned about Telecommunications Industry:
Telecommunications Providers of mobile telephone services; including cellular, satellite and paging services. Includes wireless tower companies that own, operate and lease mobile site towers to multiple wireless service providers.

You can select different competitor if possible because you need the same account.

Regards,
ALI FAROOQ OBU Registered Mentor

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@arsalanullah1122

You have to apply formula on the excel sheet while preparing financial statements and ratios , Examiner can easily review by using the “insert function” in excel

I strongly recommend to my students to compute ratios and apply formula.
You can provide Ratio formulas in the separate excel sheet i.e Gross profit margin = gross profit / revenue = ( revenue – cost of goods sold ) / revenue

Hope the answer of the question

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@darkangel5

I encourage to students to compute ratios by them self and you may find difference between your ratio and their ratios. you should not be worried about it. Ratio differences can occur because of different assumption/judgement used by company. you should highlight this matter under the heading of limitation and inform examiner you are following your approach or the company,

If you select public listed company then you can get financial information from stock exchange and annual report. I would like to highlight one issue here. some business newspapers publish research report on companies but you may find differences in financial figures & ratios. I recommend you to focus on annual reports to extract financial figures because it is audited 🙂

Regards,
Ali Farooq OBU Registered Mentor

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@Stevis

To be awarded the BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting you must:

• Be eligible for the degree. This means you must be registered with Oxford
Brookes University i.e. opted-in to the BSc degree scheme before passing
any of the three ACCA Fundamentals papers, F7, F8 and F9

• Pass the three ACCA Fundamentals papers F7, F8 and F9 and pass other
papers as required to successfully complete all nine Fundamentals level
papers at least two months prior to the start of the submission period in which
the student is seeking to submit

• Hold a recognized English language qualification certificate and transcript (if applicable), which must be submitted to and approved by ACCA, before passing any of papers F7, F8 or F9

• Complete the ACCA Professional Ethics module by the published deadline before submitting a Research and Analysis Project to Oxford Brookes University (for deadlines see: https://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/student/accaqual-student-journey/bsc-degree/rap-submission-dates.html)

• Complete and pass the Oxford Brookes University Research and Analysis Project. The degree must be completed within 10 years of your start date onto the ACCA’s
professional qualification otherwise your eligibility will be withdrawn

Anything else I can assist you.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@firozahmmad

Kindly visit the below mentioned website and get full detail about registered Mentor and read pg 18

https://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/ACCA_Global/Students/bsc/IP2015-16.pdf

or register here as a mentee and contact with mentor
https://www.oxfordbrookesmentoring.co.uk/

Before attending first meeting with your project Mentor, Kindly read an important areas of BSc info pack 2015/2016, make a list of questions and try to develop research skills. I am pretty sure He/she guides you well.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@yorkey

Dear, please find the answers to your questions below.

1. Is it possible to start working on rap before taking and passing F7,F8,F9 in order to save time, lets say preparing for upper mentioned papers and RAP at the same time? But leaving the submission to the end.

Answer: Yes It depends on you if you can manage your time and get ready your project before submission. I recommend you to select topic 8 and make sure both companies have the same accounting period/ fiscal year and Accounting period starts 1 January ending on 31 December i.e 1st Jan 2013 to to 31st Dec 2015.

2. Are we given topics either we create them by ourselves? To be honest i’ve never done any rap before and got no idea of how it looks like and how it should be done.

Answer: You will have to chose one topic amongst 20 topic and get proper guidance from Project Mentor, He/she can keep you in the right direction.

3. Are there any specific time limits as an allowable date of start and end throughout the year?

Answer: Pass the three ACCA Fundamentals papers F7, F8 and F9 and pass other
papers as required to successfully complete all nine Fundamentals level
papers at least two months prior to the start of the submission period in which
the student is seeking to submit . You must follow the deadline of submission and submit your project before one week of last date

4.What if the mentor haven’t been found or is someone taught the scheme via internet.
Answer: you can select registered mentor from anywhere in the world and kindly visit below mentioned website to get your mentor
https://www.oxfordbrookesmentoring.co.uk/mentors/view/list

5. What are the specific requirements for the mentor?
Answer: He / She must be registered and name must be appeared on the OBU Mentor list.

6.Are there any web sites with rap sampe available?
Answer: Mentor can guide you better about overall structure of the project and develop your mind how to start and where to start. Everything you will discuss with Mentor to achieve your project objectives

Hope the answer of the question.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU Registered Mentor

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@arsalanullah1122

Yes you can use annual reports from 12 to 14 if they publish in the month of Feb 2016. You may select any top five companies in telecommunication..

Regards,
Ali Farooq.
OBU – Registered Mentor

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@arsalanullah1122

I hope you are doing well.

There is some new requirement regarding selection of the company and Registered Mentor. You will bring all issues to the attention of your Project Mentor.

you should not be worried about company and competitor. you can analyze either consolidated financial statements or Individual accounts.

It seems you are from Pakistan. Please visit Karachi/Lahore/Islamabad Stock Exchange to get more detail about Public listed companies or you can visit online https://www.psx.com.pk/

Once you select suitable company please discuss with your project mentor and get his / her valuable input on your selection.

Hope the answer of the question.

Regards,
Ali Farooq
OBU – Registered Mentor

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