big four firm only accept those who get excellent result in their professional course... unless u know insider person who can slot in a place for u..

for your kind info, whether u work in premium firm or not,.. it not so important, the key point is how expreience of ur superior /senior... see whether they willing guide u or not..

where is the location? it is provide how many level?
may i know how much is the intake fees and with the tuition fees for each paper?

thanks in advance!

Say for every colleges, their tuition fees already include textbook and revision materials?

But I am a full time student. So have to take LAN subjects?

VpIc, I am not quite understand with what you been said. When the time I am going to enrol with the institute, what should I fill up in the application form(full time? part time?) since I don't wanna take the LAN subjects?

anyone attended parminder singh class for p3 before?
how was it? is he good?

planning to start taking PART 3 exam after my degree course.can i know is there any weekends  class (possibly sunday )for P1 &P2?

thanks for the tips. but the tips from bpp for certain papers had not been accurate for a couple of sitting already. e.g. previously 2.5 and F7, and most of the professional papers. so might want to ask users of this information to be careful

agree. any phillip woo ex-student here, how his revision class and also the revision material?

just attended the first day...
the notes is the same as his class notes. (mostly)
no tips yet...

same goes to me. P2, P3, P4, P5...i worry most bout P2 and P3. have been skipping most of parmindar's classes. 

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Added on May 7, 2008, 9:14 pmP3 Key Areas (by Dr. Parmindar Singh @ Kasturi)

1. Mission Statement, stakeholder mapping, benchmarking, Balance Scorecard

2. PESTEL, Diamond, market forces, SWOT, TOWS, strategic issues

3. Strategies:
- Alliance (equity and non equity, including outsourcing)
- External growth (M&As), internal growth/Greenfield
- Ansoff
- Generic strategies and hybrid (strategy clock)

4. Strategy evaluation models - BCG, PLC, public sector matrix etc

5. Change, resistance and culture

6. Quality issues - CMMI, V model

7. People - leadership, HRM

8. E-business/commerce (IT & market forces), e-marketing

9. Business process change

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Added on May 7, 2008, 9:24 pmP2 Key Areas (by Mr. Haneef @ Mc Orange)

Group Financial Statements

1. Group cash flow statement

2. Indirect subsidiary and associate

3. Disposal and deemed disposal

4. Restating consolidated balance sheet involving a range of accounting standards

Accounting Standards

1. Financial Instrument (99.99% coming out)

2. Share-based payment

3. Revenue Recognition

4. Government Grant

5. Retirement benefit

6. Deferred tax

7. Earnings per share

8. Forex

9. Impairment of an asset and CGU

10. Lease and sale & leaseback

11. Provision and contingency

12. Related party disclosure

13. Case study question :
- intangible asset
- provision and contingent liability
- revenue recognition
- impairment of an asset
- non current asset held for sale
- share-based payment
- joint venture
- events after balance sheet date

14. Non current asset held for sale

Essay questions

1. Non current asset held for sale

2. Operating segment

3. additional information included in annual report :
- operating and financial review
- environmental information
- social information
- corporate governance practices

4. Ethical behaviour

5. Corporate social responsibility

6. Business combinations :
- objectives in revising
- main changes proposed
- justifications for proposed changes

hi guys, i'm seriously in need of opinion here.

i'm studying at sunway college now undertaking the final year for the acca programme. next semester would hopefully be my last semester.
as so my college requires us to make selection for what OPTIONAL PAPER to take in advance of next semester class.

I have few questions in doubt as to how to select what OPTIONAL PAPER to undertake. i hope you guys can help me out to answer a few query i have. really thanks in advance for any reply.

for the Big 4 audit firms. Is there such requirement that it is necessary or most preferable that graduates wishing to find a job there to possess ADVANCE TAX and ADVANCE AUDIT papers ? Because I have heard of some cases whereby graduate not possessing that two papers are ask to sit for the two papers on part time basis.

even if it's not necessary to possess the two papers, is it extremely beneficial for one in their working environment later in an audit firm ? for example in terms of job advancement.

I hope you guys could really answer my query.

Thanks in advance.

seems like nobody wan to share their tips here.

VPIC already attended f8-philip woo , but don wan to share.

same goes to carlosandy. already attended p1-philip woo, but don wan to share aso. 
but everyone must thanks ROYPCK for posted p2 and p3 tips here.   

i'm going crazy......the more i study F8 the more i get frustrated as i wonder why all the pass year answer can get so detail and long. One single point have to elaborate for so long.....i cant even make it leh.....hai...that's why i always fail for this subject!(3 times)They said the more u write u got more chance to get pass........but i got nothing to write except straight to the point...anyone can help?

Wat will come out in islamic tax?
I read the study guide, but study guide didnt mention about the islamic tax

even i live near sunway(10 min drive) but i choose kasturi
this july entry

i think i will  more enjoy accountant life
college life for me is dotaing clubbing dating,retaking,retainining
somemore i dun have budget on it,i use my fund to study,since mom and dad working hard,dun want aste their $
economic is mean how best we use our limited resource to reach a goal,Economic Efficiency

hi all, i would like to ask how is Joe Fang's teaching of P2 in SAA. is he better than Sami or James Kwan or Goh Sher Wee ? i think Sami is fast in teaching.....james is fast also & spend many hours teaching till midnigt...goh sher wee is like to joke alot......i am new to Joe Fang, can provide me more information on his teaching? is his way of teaching like James or easy to understand way like Chee Hay kheong who teach F8 audit. thanks v much!

I got a query here. erm, i feel like core papers are difficult than optional papers. but, why the passring rate for core papers are higher than optional papers ar? anyone got any comment?

recently i juz sit for the optional paper...
but i still feel that the optional paper is easier compare to the core paper....
i think the pass rate difference is mainly due to the difficulties of the paper for the year~

because i feel that core paper and optional paper are main to test ur understanding and apply to the relevant case...
so i have not see big difference on the characteristic of the papers...