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I’ll gladly take 51, it’s far better off than that miserable 30 in the first go.
I’m just being cynical, but the ACCA can totally commercialise past papers as a resource by withdrawing them from the official website and simultaneously jacking up the price of the right to publish them by approved learning providers – BPP, Kaplan, etc – who in turn use past paper materials exclusively on their textbooks.
Well, the current revision kit materials are already built wholly or partially on past papers anyway, and those publishers must be paying something for past papers, but withdrawing them entirely from ACCA website would force the purchase of revision kits to become almost a must for students.
That’s how American professional exams are being operated, by the way.It’s easy to think that F9/P4 has some overlap with CFA curriculum, and some underlying concepts and theories might indeed overlap, but the overall correlation between the two is way lower than you think. And I’m talking about CFA L2 & L3 exams here, since you don’t even need P2 level knowledge for L1.
Firstly, that’s because the focus groups/functions of each qualification are different. Accountant/auditor/controller/CFO career path is quite off from investment analyst/portfolio manager/fund manager path.
Secondly, even within those overlapping elements – e.g. valuation models – the exam techniques & practice you need to master are completely different. It’s hard to write it out the differences in detail, but the point is, the synergy you’d expect isn’t there.
So, I’d suggest you separate the preparation for each, train your brain toward exams of one qualification at a time, don’t try to mix them up in June sittings since ACCA and CFA dates will be most likely only a few days apart.
