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hi all, these two topics (decision trees and balanced score card) were examined in F5 June sitting. Is it likely that they will be examined in the December 2013 sitting. am struggling with them especially the balanced score card.
thanksDon’t risk question spotting.
If you are struggling with something then concentrate on it, read around it.
The problem may be with your study text rather than yourself. There have been papers where I’ve purchased both Kaplan and BPP and still had to read up additional materials.
If you don’t want to buy another F5 book buy the P5 one (but the other publisher to the F5 text that you are using) as its same material, higher level,
All in all remember that you are learning the subject, not just learning to pass exams.
Your later studies will utilise the knowledge at the sills level that you are picking up now and ingrained knowledge based on a firm understanding is an awful lot easier to recall.
Good luck in December,
Shaun.Actually, meant to mention in the previous post but completely flew my mind.
many people make the mistake of believing that they are being tested on the study text. Thats not at all the case. The texts are meant to help but do not necessarily contain information to pass everything that you may face in the exam.
The texts are an excellent start point but you need to base your studies on the syllabus document which even that is only the framework it is not the nuts and bolts of everything that you need to learn.
In the same way that if you want a dog start off by asking for a horse, so if you want to pass F level papers study at P level.
I recently had a similar conversation with someone on another forum studying AAT and they got fantastic passes and truly knew their stuff by studying opentuition ACCA F level paper materials to passlevel IV AAT.Thanks very much Khonkean, that’s some good advice. but just wondering, to study P5 will i not need assumed knowledge of F5? can i just go straight onto studying for P5 then use that knowledge to sit for F5. clarify please
many thanksSorry Frank, just reread and my answer probably didn’t come accross as I intended it to.
you will still need to study at F5 level. You already have study texts for that but if something is giving you grief in your studies then it may be the way that it is conveyed in the book.
If you are studying Kaplan then you could also buy BPP (or vice versa) or if you didn’t want to spent more money on a book covering the same material at the same level you could look at the book of the alternate publisher from the next level up for further detail and to my mind often better explanations that concentrate more upon why rather than just how.
However, at F5 there is more emphasis on calculation and at P5 more emphasis on strategic implementation.
Whilst you may find the answers that elude you in the P5 text you absolutely need to study this one at F5 level.
To my mind the only exception to that is F6 / P6 where tax is tax with the higher level expecting all of the knowledge from the earlier level but being on a different FA so has to retread the same ground again which to my mind makes F6 passable using P6 materials (maybe plus the Melville book on Taxation which I buy every FA anyway).
basically you still need to study at F5 level and the suggestion of the P5 text was only for further, more detailed explanations as an alternative to risking not finding the answers that elude you in the other publishers text for the same level.
That aside always remember that google is you friend and there are a large number of old ACCA articles that cover this material plus the OT lectures at both F5 and P5 levels which are second to none.
Hope that the above makes sense,
kind regards,
Shaun.
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