June 2013

The changes are not so big so you can use the 2012 study text.
Section E of the syllabus is new but there will be new Course Notes uploaded soon including the new section and you can read it in the course notes. (It is does not involve any calculations.)

Thanks - will the areas in section C&D they have removed still potentially be in the exam? It's years since I did any of this at AAT level (that's if it was even covered) so I don't want to waste my time looking over it if there is no chance it will be the exam.

I wasn't sure if just becuase they remove areas - it doesn't mean they won't exam it?


Thanks for your help

The areas removed are still examinable. They are only removed because they are assumed knowledge from earlier exams.
It is vital that you understand basic variances in particular - not just because they are still examinable, but because it is impossible to understand the more advanced variances without fully understanding basic variances.

Thanks John - just as a final thing, does that mean there could be areas not in the syllabus because they are assumed knowledge from earlier exams across all areas? Unless you are doing the exams in sync and don't have any gap years there could well be lots of areas people should have covered but haven't!!? The only way you could ever be sure would be to sit F2 followed the next year by F5.....

Yes it is possible, but not from all earlier exams. If you look at the syllabuses they do explain the progression (so, for example, F5 continues from F2, and so it is only topics from F2 that are examinable again in F5.)

In theory therefore there should not be problems because everybody has to take F2 before F5 (or be exempt from F2 and therefore have studied the topics at university).

Also, the text books (and our Course Notes) for F5 do cover all the areas that are important for the exam (including topics from F2).