She teaches F7 and P2. Has been around for some time. Students like her. Whether you like her style or not - go for the class and find out.

Well this ruling will be coming in June 2013 / Aug 2013. I would think that you would be at the tail end of this and therefore not affected. The college will have to come out with a policy for all students. This will also affect the international students that were exempted from certain MPW / MQA subjects.

I believe the those that are entering the ACCA using Diploma, Degree and CAT from June 2013 would be affected since the requirement will be enforced as of Aug 2013 - mandatory, it is optional now.

Trust me - this is a huge mess that will not only affect ACCA, it affects all the others too - Diploma crossing to Degree, Certificate crossing to Diploma.

In that case, you cannot complain since this is a blanket rule. My interpretation of the ruling that was made is better explained using an example.

Example:
If your Diploma has 50 credit including the MQA paper to complete and if you are exempted from Bahasa Malaysia due to A1 in SPM. You have just done 47 credit of classes and skipped 3 credit due to exemption of BM.

The new ruling is that you must complete 50, meaning - either you do BM or do something else in lieu to cover the 3 credits.

This is due to credit exemption, you must replace the exempted credit. You do not need to replace if it is credit transfer, like Diploma transfers credit to Degree.

Source wise - wait for the colleges to announce the news, you will hear it soon enough.

That is a good book for learning Management Accounting, not sure whether F5 examiner Ann Irons recommends it. Your examiner has just read "The Goal" which is an excellent learning novel for TOC. If you can, read that - I remember reading it in 2 or 3 days flat since it was written unlike a text book.

If you can read text book - I think ACCA Kaplan or BPP text is more than enough to pass the paper (with added amount of the technical articles and past years)

Getting this book, unless you have the time and like to read book - this would be fine. The book itself is written by a British author and is DRY, which I think American books are really well written with their colour illustrations, much more easier to read and understand.

Between BPP (DRY) and KAPLAN (MOIST) you can see the difference. KAPLAN is AMERICAN influenced whereas BPP is BRITISH

New ruling is by MQA.
All programs are affected.
This is not speculation - this is something that has already been issued out by MQA and in the process of being implemented by most colleges / universities.
Yes students will have to do additional subjects to replace exempted subjects - what subject will be decided by the colleges.

The above is a rule.
So far the impact for ACCA is related to MQA compulsory subjects.

This post has been edited by frodo baggin: Jan 9 2013, 08:56 PM

At this junction - whether those before June 2013 is affected is not clear. I am also hoping that this does not affect that group of students - since it would really be messy trying ask people to take extra subjects or take back the same subject that was passed in CAT.

Lets hope that you are not affected by this ruling.

On the earlier comment - MQA has clearly stated that exempted credit must be replaced by another subject of equivalent credit.

Credit transferred does not need to be replaced.

Diploma student moving to Degree will get 30% credit transfer from the Degree. In the past if you did MQA in diploma you do not need to do it again in Degree.

The current ruling is that is no longer valid - the credit exempted in degree must be replaced with another subject or the same subject.

I know - it is confusing as hell, that was my initial re-action to it too. I am also in the wait and see point for now, but the implementation in eminent.

Active P2 Lecturers in Klang Valley

Menon @ Sunway College
Mary @ EliteJaya
Spencer @ KSA
Joe Fang @ KSA
Jay & Dee @ Inti College
Yap @ Bandar / Taylor
Nafzar @ EliteJaya - please confirm?
Haneef @ ? - can someone input this information (is he still around?)
Ng @ ?
? @ PAAC
? @ TARC
? @ UniMARA


Can others please input names for the other colleges / lecturers - need to ensure that list of names for P2 is complete. From this list I am in good terms with 6 of the lecturers and know them for the last 5 years on a friendly basis. The world of ACCA lecturing is small world

Yes cannot skip.
I would suggest that you do P2,3 and 7.

The reason is that P2 and P7 has a lot of synergy. P3 would be helpful in business risk analysis. Overall, that combo notion is a good approach.

You would be allowed to skip if you are an old student that was converted from the previous syllabus.

For P7 there is Goh @ Sunway and Jay @ Inti and J Pro which is at Shah Alam ( good for uitm) students.

The second term fees would include text and kit at Inti and J pro

Best to do p1 and p3 first then do the rest in the next sitting. The reason is the breaks between the exam are more better.
Doing p2 and p7 together is good synergy and another optional, in the next sitting.

Any one planning on doing OBU can pm me for details on mentoring

Yes, called before. It is foc. The number is 1800-88-5051.
Toll free number.
It is the least they can do after taking away the monthly
Student news letter and also the official graduation ceremony. Funny thing is that with all the cost saving initiatives, the subscription fees and exam fees is still going up annually.

If not mistaken, even if the employer is not approved does not mean that your experience is not valid. Just that you have to maintain a record of the experience and make sure you have a supervisor / manager that is a chartered accountant that is willing to sign off.

On that note - if you work in commercial line, you get to develop a very very narrow set of skills that fit a very specific industry. You will manage to achieve most of the PER requirements.

ACCA is principle-driven, you must proof that you have done the required level of work and someone must be able to verify this if needed.

Just checking from Sunway PJ students - do you really study anything in BRM? If so did it help in OBU?



This post has been edited by frodo baggin: Feb 6 2013, 07:14 PM

No it is not about the training.
It is about exposure. If you work in a hospital you get to see many sick people with many problems, whereas if you work in the clinics it would be less. That's for doctors, what about accountants?

I think the training is not the key part, more about the exposure. Firms have better exposure compared to commercial. If you don't want to be an accountant then better go commercial side and take up management training positions offered by some of the big corporations.

If you want to go into IB then some of the finance houses would be better.

Those out there - put your input in. Oh try not to trash the firms too much, they provide excellent exposure opportunities and CV branding

Results are out 6 days earlier. Really efficient for acca

Check your account ; results are out already !
Death rates for F8 looks higher than usual but F7 and F9 looks tolerable . The new examiner for F8 must be marking at very high level of scrutiny due to to high pass rates last round.

No idea, class students are freaking out ????

This post has been edited by frodo baggin: Feb 2 2013, 04:45 PM

Congrats to the students that passed. Great going. Those that did not pass all the paper, don't worry there is still June 2013.
Hope for the best - you can join up at Inti for the resit classes which will be starting after CNY.

Lecturers are : F4 Gary, F5 Arshad, F6 Dee, F7 Dee, F8 Jay, F9 Oviyan, P1,3 &7 Jay, P2 Dee, P4 Oviyan, P5 Arshad.

Congratulations for those that passed the paper!

If you are affliate this year - welcome into the world of membership and enjoy the benefits of knowing that you are a professional Now Qualify with the correct firm.

If you were not that lucky with the papers this time - reflect on what went wrong and try to do it differently the next time.

Those celebrating CNY - happy new year.