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Exam tips are out! Enjoy but do not rely on them.
BPP
- Value chain.
- Critical success factors and KPIs.
- Role of the corporate parent.
- Evaluation of strategies including suitability/acceptability/feasibility.
- Expect more calculations and financial analysis as June’s paper had very few of these
First Intuition
Section A
• Environmental analysis, people with financial analysis.
Section B
• Project management.
• Strategic action.
• Information technology – pricing strategy.Kaplan
- Strategic choice.
- Benefits management.
- Value chain.
- Business process redesign.
- Change management.
- Stakeholder analysis.
- Decision making techniques.
Becker Professional Education
- Marketing – market segmentation.
- Organising an enabling success – organisational structure.
- Mergers and acquisitions.
- Business processes – software.
- Role of management accounting in helping to achieve the strategic objectives.
LSBF
- Strategic Analysis – maybe value chain
- Strategic Choice
- Marketing Mix / e-marketing
- Software selection
- Strategic aspects to Pricing
Opentuition
• Strategic appraisal and strategic recommendations. Portfolio management
• Business process change: Harmon’s Process Strategy Matrix; Balogun and Hope Hailey.
• Use of IT for marketing and improving the value chain
• Activity based costing and pricingDe Monfort
Given the lack of quantitative elements in the last exam, and the recent introduction of more quantitative techniques into the syllabus, I would expect there to be a heavy numerical influence, maybe including:
* Ratio analysis.
* Limiting factor analysis.
* Standard costing and variance analysis.
* Financial evaluation of projects.
Other topics which may be due an airing:
* SWOT or PESTEL.
* Porter’s Diamond.
* Strategic options using one of Ansoff, Strategic Clock or TOWS (if SWOT appears).
* Outsourcing.
* Process change (using swimlane diagrams).
* Supply Chain Management.
* Marketing mix._______________________________________
Source: https://www.pqaccountant.com/
Very best of luck with your exams!
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Any BPP Tips for P2 and P3?
If we look back at the June 2013 P3 exam we can see that the examiner has again required students to have a very good grasp of the syllabus, both breadth and depth, combined with an ability to apply that knowledge (along with a decent amount of commercial common sense) to the specific circumstances of the scenario.
In addition it is clear that the examiner likes to keep students on their toes by including substantial elements within questions that are from the fringes of the syllabus. In June 2013 there was a 25 mark question which relied on a reasonably detailed knowledge of “people” and in December 2012 there was a 25 mark question based largely on decision trees.
It is therefore extremely dangerous for any student to focus on certain elements of the syllabus at the expense of others. To stand the best chance of passing P3 students need to have a good understanding of the entire syllabus. This will enable them to choose the questions where they believe they will find it easier to pick up marks (for instance because it is easier to understand the requirements, or easier to structure an answer, or easier to pick up knowledge marks) rather than having to choose questions because of the syllabus area.
In addition if students were to lay out the syllabus and compare it to the past couple of years’ exams, they will see that all the key areas of the syllabus have been examined over the past four sittings.
It could be argued that the following areas, despite being key syllabus areas that have been regularly examined, have not been examined significantly in the past couple of papers, and therefore may be a little more likely to surface (however remember that this is a very dangerous game to play if it distracts students from other syllabus areas):
– Value Chain
– Critical success factors and KPIs
– Role of the corporate parent
– Evaluation of strategies including Suitability/Acceptibility/Faesibility. ?
Finally it is worth pointing out that the June paper had very few calculations or financial analysis, which has been a feature of prior exams, we could expect these to return.Thanks for sharing such informations @eagleshen201 @ansi
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thanks the information
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thx for the mterials
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thanks a lot for sharing!
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great repl dear u r right in last 4 attempts he test almost all parts of syllbus and in great depth unfortunatly i have been present in last 4 attmpts but could nt pas wht u will suggest me bcz this time i study only p3 n in last few weeks like from 15 november how could i go throgh
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