Hi Crystal,

P7 is not a requirement to work in Big4 in Malaysia. There are even ppl without accounting qualifications who are accepted to do audit work at Big4. Audit work is something you learn on the job.

Which optional paper you take will not affect your job prospects but it will affect how much you are equipped for the job.
You may never end up doing anything related to Corporate Finance for example, but the knowledge is well worth it.
Since ACCA makes the papers optional instead of all compulsory, you have to choose the one that will be most useful to you. In that sense, Tax will be something that is definitely useful. If you plan to go into audit, you should consider not taking this paper at all. I am an ex-PwC auditor and audit papers never taught me anything more than what I learned on the job.

Surprisingly i passed P2 with 50 marks. I was expecting a fail with 30 marks. They must have lowered the passing mark due to very high failure rates. There is absolutely no way I could've gotten 50 marks as I was sitting in the exam hall looking at others wondering why I didn't prepare in advance for this paper as there was nothing much I could do for the last 1.5 hour.

I am definitely not complaining as I am very glad i passed but standards seem to be declining.

i still can't log in. This sucks big time.