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AAshley7y ago

Hi John, I note in your introductory lecture that the two questions from section C will come from 3 out of the 4 areas covered in the syllabus, the one that won't be covered is Specialist Cost & Management Accounting Techniques. I'm working off the Kaplan exam kit and they've included 15 questions in section C for this area. Is it safe to skip these 15 questions based on the above? Thanks.

John MoffatTutor7y ago#1

No, don't skip them. The syllabus says that the Section C questions will come mainly from the other syllabus areas, but certainly little bits of 'specialist cost and MA techniques' can be asked in Section C (although it is extremely unlikely for them to be more than a small part of a question). Given that these costing techniques will be asked elsewhere in the exam with certainty, it is good to have extra practice on them anyway :-)

AAshley7y ago#2

Thanks John and apologies over the double post. Having taken another glance at some of the questions in Section C for this area I see what you mean, can only be beneficial to practice these as well. I guess I was also thrown off by some of the questions that cropped up, some on breakeven analysis/profit volume chart/contribution graph, which I don't recall being covered in the chapters for this area.

John MoffatTutor7y ago#3

You are welcome, and no problem :-) The graphs you mention are from the decision making area of the syllabus, but do appreciate (as I say in my free lectures) that you can no longer be asked to actually draw any graphs or charts in the exam (even though you can be tested that you understand them and can interpret them).

AAshley7y ago#4

Thanks John. I'll start tackling some of the questions from this section this week. Comfortable-ish with Section A and B, but can see that Section C is a different level altogether.

John MoffatTutor7y ago#5

You are welcome :-)

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