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CBE answer format

Forums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA AAA Exams › CBE answer format

  • This topic has 4 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 3 years ago by Kim Smith.
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  • November 17, 2021 at 12:08 pm #640870
    tinkle
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    Hello to my favorite tutor, hope you are well.

    I understand how writing an email to the partner has a specific official format, however for question on Matters to consider and Evidence on File (which has like 2-3 parts regarding different matters)

    Can I draw a table with the different matters as my column headers and as my row titles can I put the different things I want to write about in turn as in the materiality, the F/S impact, the evidence, the correct accounting treatment….?

    ………………………………………(i) Sales and Leaseback………………… (ii) Acquisition of Subsidiary
    -Materiality
    -Correct accounting
    -Management’s accounting
    -F/S impact
    -Evidence on file

    Is this appropriate for an exam as professional as AAA?

    November 17, 2021 at 12:11 pm #640871
    tinkle
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    …………………(i) Sales and Leaseback………………… (ii) Acquisition of Subs..
    -Materiality
    -Correct accounting
    -Management’s accounting
    -F/S impact
    -Evidence on file

    November 17, 2021 at 1:05 pm #640873
    Kim Smith
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    Hello my star AA student – yes I am very well!

    Short answer – no.

    A columnar approach/tabulation is only appropriate when there is a “matching” relationship between what is in the first column and what is in the second (and, where relevant, a third). You will have seen many examples of this in AA – e.g. Audit risk/Auditor’s response (2 columns).

    Considering your suggestion – there would be no relationship between your materiality assessment for (i) and your materiality assessment for (ii) – they are completely independent of each other.

    What you have is an “ideas list” – which you can easily copy and paste as the framework for your answer – overwriting each idea with an answer point (or deleting the idea when not applicable:

    (i) Sales and Leaseback
    -Materiality
    -Correct accounting
    -Management’s accounting
    -F/S impact
    -Evidence on file
    (ii) Acquisition of Subs
    -Materiality
    -Correct accounting
    -Management’s accounting
    -F/S impact
    -Evidence on file
    (iii) … etc

    November 17, 2021 at 1:59 pm #640886
    tinkle
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    Thank you Ma’am for the prompt response.

    And Thank you again for your responses to all other questions on this Forum, I’ve been following them lately.

    November 17, 2021 at 2:13 pm #640892
    Kim Smith
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    You’re always most welcome!

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