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I would advise against it, unless you are ONLY sitting this paper and have heaps of time. Seriously.
Hi,
I am sitting F7 & F9 together and trying to get a study group/study buddy going. I sat F7 in June and failed with 46%… that paper is all about timing and knowing exactly what to apply and when without fliching.
F9 apparently is not THAT difficult (in ACCA terms that is) but it has a LOT of formulas to learn and it needs a lot of practice.Both are very important and require a lot of time, dedication and support.
Let me know if interested in studying together.
JL (London)
I am also sitting F9 (with an F7 retake – got 46% grrr)…. keen on the study group for F9 as I have no idea whatsoever about it… I am in London… JL
Hi Chrissy,
Fab. Let’s. my email is jzambran@hotmail.com Only starting to have a look at it all this weekend 🙂
Mike just got ahead of me. he he
Chris, I am also sitting F7 (I am pretty sure I failed in June) and F9… If you are in London and are looking for a Study Buddy for the December sitting, let me know.
Cheers.
Jose
Hi… where are you? I am in London… sitting F9 in December as well…. Never even looked at it before!
Jose E1
I have to be honest and the exam was not nearly as hard as I thought. Sadly, I was so unprepared for some of the topics (namely tax and PUP – just can’t get it through my head) that I doubt very much I did well.
Oh well, December here I come! 🙁
I am on the same boat… only started this week.
You can:
1. Review the main points of all the main topics: Audit framework, Internal Audit, Planning and risk assessment, Internal Control, Audit Evidence, review and reporting
2. Familiarise yourself with key concepts, such as tests of control, tests of details, substantive procedures, sampling, audit risk, audit strategy, material misstatements, assertions, etc.
3. Get a knowledge of how to obtain audit evidence, and generate audit procedures for the main areas (wages, payables, payments, receivables, cash & bank, etc.)
4. start reading the questions and UNDERSTANDING the answers from a good exam kit (like Kaplan)…. read them all.. no time to start practising, but if you get some time go for it…And good luck…. sit the exam. It is a lot of common sense.
Cheers
JL
Certainly enough time if you use all your weekdays and weekends…. I am doing F8 together with F7 (which is a lot more and only started to revise this week)… I think (well, hope) it is a matter of clever question practice rather than going through everything again (too late for that) – Kaplan exam revision kits are the best for this. Seriously. Good luck!
I find BPP Text for F8 quite long-winded and difficult. I started reading the OT study notes on F8 but sadly (and this is not criticism, as I appreciate these guys are helping us all out for free) I find there are so many grammatical errors/incomplete words that it was giving me a headache, so I had no option but to leave it. I am going to go and see if the Kaplan text has something better to offer.
I sat the exam as well but nerves got the best of me and I went BLANK! – I spent far too much time trying to figure out what on earth Ann Irons was asking! – I wonder if we are to become riddles’ experts or professional accountants (though she might think the two are interchangeable). If we are to spend time trying to figure out what we are being asked to do then reading time should be extended to 30 minutes or something like that (on this paper).
Also, it was so cold I could barely concentrate despite a few layers on!
With about 1.5 hours to go stuff started coming back to me (and after staring at the questions for at least 40 minutes I started to discover clues). Too late and I was too rushed, so I doubt very much I would even get 20% on legibility alone! – LOL
In hindsight it was not a difficult paper, and I will not blame the cold or the examiner. I just did not prepare appropriately and was not confident with what I knew and in the end I failed, but hey, it was the first time in 8 years I attempted a paper (and about to sit another one tomorrow!) so it was a good dry run.
I hope you guys did better than I did!
I’d say sit them both and take a chance. You never know. At the end of the day, you’ve already paid for the examination. You might get lucky.
I am having exactly the smae problem. These questions can be so confusion and misleading, is as if we have to get into the Examiner’s head to understand them.
One thing that most providers are stressing on for some reason is CVP Analysis…
I was going mad with that question as well (clearly not a mathematician!).. However, I am trying to draw the objective function here but cannot understand what I need to do…
How about using the suty text from 2011 for 2013 for F7? – It would really hurt having to pay £36 for just a couple of extra tropics! what has changed? – Thanks guys
I assume this is for the international stream??? if so please include me:
