[loves]

1) IT:
EMRs, Wan’s/Lan’s/Ethernet etc
2) Regulations and Ethical codes, brought by 2001-2002 scandals (Maxwell, Worlddotcom (or what was the name of the company?) etc)
Oxley-Sarbanes act 2002, IFAC
only 2 I can think about now, mb will add smth in future thought I seems like P1 question to me, not F1

[loves]

76% I’m disappointed. There was literally only 2 questions on models (Kolb (2poits) and Mendelow’s matrix (4 points)) and seemed like almost 20 points was distributed to topics of ethics and “ethical: corporate governance that I was not studying that hard.

[loves]

well I just want to make it clear for me, NEO (none-executive officers) are internal as they are part of management in regard to board of directors, correct? TY, for respond.

[loves]

ACCA F1 2014-2015 syllabus. A.1.c) Outline how business organizations differ?
1) by type (A.1.e will be of a great help here)
2) by structure:
see: Entrepreneurial, Functional, Matrix, Boundless (hollow, virtual, modular) (taken from OP ch 1.) thought there is a bit more to add, job-less structure for example.
3) by span of control

thought I think there much to add in cultural difference area, legal attitude and ethics, maturity and so on.

[loves]

IMHO opentuition lectures are the enough to pass at least F1, F2, Even to have same threshold of 20-40 points

[loves]

Chapter 4. Between Handy’s classification of culture (4 types) and Hofstede model. As quick overview:
Schein – 3 levels of culture (by degree of exposure)
1) Artifacts
2) Espoused values
3) Basic underlying assumptions

You are mentioning Artifacts – the most exposed level. At this level you will see all that organization wants you to. Examples of this can be – ads/commercials (), way employee visualize (PWC Friday jeans day), buildings (NY Apple store, near central park), call centers (“you opinion is very important to us, plz hold on and lister to this beautiful song “) to name but a few

[loves]

Simple comparison of F1 syllabus 2010 <1> and 2015 <2> gives that
1) Micro economy basics was added, leading to F2 cost accounting
2) Much emphasis was put on topic of Ethics
3) History of accounting is not of any concern
much more to mention in deep but was left for topic holder to research.

Overall, learning F1 by 2010 text books is a good way to increase general intelligence though it will have a great influence on educational efficiency, learning curve and be costly (mostly time). As far as my experience go, Opentuition lectures of 2015 (free and up to date) has it all to score at least 90 (for example Acr elasticity was not mentioned).
Its for you to decide. I think if you are ready to ace 2010 syllabus with BPP 2010 you will pass 2015 syllabus for sure.

Steps to take (as I’m doing)
1) watch opentuition lectures (the best I’ve seen for the highest price I can efford ). Takes a week max.
2) try pilot paper, if you feel confident register to CBE (Just after OP I scored 70% in 1 hour 50 minuts)
3) if not purchase BPP exam kit 2015 it cost 9 ponds for more then 100 pages of questions
. Take you time on questions. if you feel confident register to CBE.
4) Still not, purchase text book 2015 addition, I went with BPP as it gives almost 500 paves of pure value. Go over step 3)
5) If you reached here damn… I cant help you.

Links
<1> – https://www.bspschool.com/images/pdf/syllabusf1.pdf
<2> – https://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/acca/global/PDF-students/fia/studyguides/fab-f1-sg-feb14-aug15.pdf

[Author]

Posts