Oh, oh! I cant control myself! Have to speak something! 

Jackson miller to me is a lecturer! If he is = idiot!  That was my first impression! Perhaps he was trying to pull students! Thought i was the only one who thinks he is a lecturer! Seems others realise it too! 

Just as in other forum, sales people may purposely join or open topics, pretend as if they were the consumer and trying to sell or promote their facial products which are expensive and useless!   They tried their best to misconduct people! This irritates me a lot! 

Students are not STUPID lar!    Who is jackson miller? Just ignore him! He thought we students dont have brain one meh? Kanasai! I am so angry seeing him bully carlosandy though i dont have any connection with him/her! Wei, please lar, look at all the stuff he wrote, oh, the things he mentioned, uhlala, we students dont even have the time to think of those small small matters so deeply as him! What was he trying to express? Aiya, all bullshit!    I dont care whether philip woo was doing plagiarism or what! I JUST CARE to go for lecturer who is famous enough and can help me to pass all my papers! That is only my goals! %*&@# jackson miller! Talk so much for what! Crap! 

I was from other state and came to kl and study acca. Well, in this sitting i am going for daniel ho (f9), low chin ann (f8), and retake (f7--last sitting taught by keith farmer). I would consider philip woo and sheila if i wana take 1 more paper for p1!  Both of my secondary friends in sunway also registered for P1 philip woo coz their time clash with college time table.

No need to waste time quarrel with those jia ba bo xi zo eh lang!   After all students are smart enough, they will go for philip woo or sheila no matter what jackson miller comments in this topic! 

u make me laugh....................                

at the moment i am really jia ba bo xi zo eh lang(nothing to do...too free) so i want to reply ur comment in order to "waste" my time...

Jackson_miller said he is not a lecturer...he is working in kpmg...1 of the big 4. how big is big though??? nvm...
although he might be a lecturer by profession, he doesn't promote his class. he didnt say "attend this/that class". so we cant say he is trying to fish student. in fact by using the word "majority", i feel carlosandy is a promoter for sheila/philip woo for P!. this is my personal opinion...dun sue me 4 dat. Dr Parmindar is new in teaching P1 but P1 is a new sub. every lecturer is still new to P1. i rmbr sheila mentioned she teach P1 mainly because she used to teach ethics in CIMA long time ago. she didn't mention audit.

though the real identity of J_M is very suspicious, he is entitled to his personal opinion. how can u blatantly conclude 1 lecturer is better than the other although "majority" said so. PLEASE DON'T OPPRESS the minority. i believe each n every lecturer is commited to their job n we as student should not question their ability.

N/B: unlike wuliao auditor, i dun really know who J_M is. i am not siding anybody. i juz hope this forum is for discussion purpose n not for small arguments.

at the moment i am really jia ba bo xi zo eh lang(nothing to do...too free) so i want to reply ur comment in order to "waste" my time...

Jackson_miller said he is not a lecturer...he is working in kpmg...1 of the big 4. how big is big though??? nvm...
although he might be a lecturer by profession, he doesn't promote his class. he didnt say "attend this/that class". so we cant say he is trying to fish student. in fact by using the word "majority", i feel carlosandy is a promoter for sheila/philip woo for P!. this is my personal opinion...dun sue me 4 dat. Dr Parmindar is new in teaching P1 but P1 is a new sub. every lecturer is still new to P1. i rmbr sheila mentioned she teach P1 mainly because she used to teach ethics in CIMA long time ago. she didn't mention audit.

though the real identity of J_M is very suspicious, he is entitled to his personal opinion. how can u blatantly conclude 1 lecturer is better than the other although "majority" said so. PLEASE DON'T OPPRESS the minority. i believe each n every lecturer is commited to their job n we as student should not question their ability.

N/B: unlike wuliao auditor, i dun really know who J_M is. i am not siding anybody. i juz hope this forum is for discussion purpose n not for small arguments.

Appreciate your point of view.    Well, i am a person who seldom comments on any topics. I used to go to many forums and read all the acca posts from pages to pages. So i can confirm and knew that carlosandy was really a student, and a good senior like COOLY who are always willing to helped out we junior that faces problems in relation with acca. I interrupted this topic because i beh tahan jackson miller who loves to argue with carlosandy.

By the way, J_M mentioned that he is not a lecturer, he is currently working in kpmg.  Haha! Well, an accountant or auditor should focus most of their time and effort in their job. They always work until very late and dont have the time or mood to go and know the P1 study materials loh! So free ah? Ha, if you graduated from your university already, will you still kepo go and know what is the topic and details changes for your previous papers?  They already passed the papers what. If you think rationally, you will understand what i mean.    Even our most respected seniour COOLY who was an accountant now dont have the time to view all the posts and give comments frequently la...

Haha, J_M as an accountant who works in kpmg should be interested in earning $$ from the share market like his peers and other working adult discussing which shares to buy and not acca papers which he already passed. Like air asia share prices drops from rm2 to rm0.78. Hahahhahahahahha!  Common sense

Appreciate your point of view.    Well, i am a person who seldom comments on any topics. I used to go to many forums and read all the acca posts from pages to pages. So i can confirm and knew that carlosandy was really a student, and a good senior like COOLY who are always willing to helped out we junior that faces problems in relation with acca. I interrupted this topic because i beh tahan jackson miller who loves to argue with carlosandy.

By the way, J_M mentioned that he is not a lecturer, he is currently working in kpmg.  Haha! Well, an accountant or auditor should focus most of their time and effort in their job. They always work until very late and dont have the time or mood to go and know the P1 study materials loh! So free ah? Ha, if you graduated from your university already, will you still kepo go and know what is the topic and details changes for your previous papers?  They already passed the papers what. If you think rationally, you will understand what i mean.    Even our most respected seniour COOLY who was an accountant now dont have the time to view all the posts and give comments frequently la...

Haha, J_M as an accountant who works in kpmg should be interested in earning $$ from the share market like his peers and other working adult discussing which shares to buy and not acca papers which he already passed. Like air asia share prices drops from rm2 to rm0.78. Hahahhahahahahha!  Common sense

long time din reply d but i've been following this JvC war. basically i think carlosandy was right. this is a forum n we r just giving our opinion based on our experience n knowledge. everyone has got diff learning style. this lecturer is good for me doesn't mean he is good for u too. there's no point to argue on small small things. if u feel a particular lecturer is good then ignore our opinion and go ahead.

i think we might need COOLLY to come out n settle this war.  miss those good old times which there's not much argument here. everyone respects each others.

p/s : forgive my broken english not as good as J_M   and plz do not discuss football here to avoid warning from mod.

The P1 question for june 2008 is already out. To say that P1 does not need to show how to run or manage an organization is too general and is such a sweeping statement.

For example, Q. 1(e) asks students to describe the difficulties of maintaining internal controls while working with sub-contractors. This implies the difficulties of managing and running organizations while work is being sub-contracted. It has to be remembered that the ultimate aims of internal controls according to my P1 lecturer is to ensure that the strategic objectives of the organization is met. By that, it means that the mission, vision, goals, objectives and strategies can be met. Hence it does touches on running and managing an organization.

Sub-contracting will also affect how organizations are managed and run. Sub-contracting is also emphasized in management papers like P3.

It is also wrong to say that P1 answers are not flexible. The same can be said for some areas in P3. Once again, you have made sweeping statements. In all subjects, there will be some questions that have a fixed answer and others that may have a more broader scope of answer, based on your elaborations.

To give an example, in the December 2007 P1 Q. 2(b), there was the question that asked how risk awareness could be embedded in the culture of the organization. Would there be a specific answer to this question since you say that P1 is not flexible. The truth is there can be more than one answer for this question. A student who has learnt P3 can apply the work of Johnson, Scholes and Whittington’s cultural web to explain how risk awareness can be embedded in the organization. There may also be other ways to explain the answer. This shows that the answers in P1 can also be flexible and not specific as you have mentioned earlier.

In the same token, one can also say that P1 can also goreng as what you have mentioned for P3. However, a student who has taken P3 knows to goreng requires sound knowledge of P3. Good goreng comes from good knowledge.

It is also not true that P1 does not require business models. Models like Mandelow’s power-interest matrix, risk response models are examples that P1 also needs models.

In addition, issues on internal controls are not only found in audit papers. IT security and controls in paper 2.1 for example, had also covered on controls (depending on who taught you paper 2.1). Also risk management is covered in paper P3 under project management. Coincidentally, the June 2008 Q. 1(b) touched on project risks with regards to the development of the Dam project. Some knowledge of project management and even the work of Mc Farlan’s Implementation risk matrix can be used (remember, a diagram was needed). Was it covered in paper 3.1?

Finally, it must be remembered that CG, ethics and CSR are also covered in P3.

In conclusion, it is important not to make sweeping statements and realize not only audit lecturers should teach P1 but also management lecturers. Rhys Johnson, the person in charge of ACCA in this part of the region has mentioned just before the P1 December 2007 exams (the first exam for P1), that the ideal person to teach P1 should be a paper 3.5 lecturer. I assure you that this is what he has said.

long time din reply d but i've been following this JvC war. basically i think carlosandy was right. this is a forum n we r just giving our opinion based on our experience n knowledge. everyone has got diff learning style. this lecturer is good for me doesn't mean he is good for u too. there's no point to argue on small small things. if u feel a particular lecturer is good then ignore our opinion and go ahead.

i think we might need COOLLY to come out n settle this war.  miss those good old times which there's not much argument here. everyone respects each others.

p/s : forgive my broken english not as good as J_M   and plz do not discuss football here to avoid warning from mod.

Appreciate your point of view.    Well, i am a person who seldom comments on any topics. I used to go to many forums and read all the acca posts from pages to pages. So i can confirm and knew that carlosandy was really a student, and a good senior like COOLLY who are always willing to help out we junior that faces problems in relation with acca. I interrupted this topic because i beh tahan jackson miller who loves to argue with carlosandy.

By the way, J_M mentioned that he is not a lecturer, he is currently working in kpmg.  Haha! Well, an accountant or auditor should focus most of their time and effort in their job. They always work until very late one and dont have the time or mood to go and know the P1 study materials loh! So free ah? Nothing to do? Worked for the whole day long already still not tired meh? Wana kepo kepo!  If you graduated from your university already, will you still kepo go and know what is the topics, detail changes, examiner's latest comments for your previous papers?  You wana resit? Hahahhaha! They already passed the papers what. If you think rationally, you will understand what i mean.    Even our most respected seniour COOLLY who was an accountant now dont have the time to view all the posts and give comments so frequently la...

And hor, since he was so brilliant, y didnt he comment on other professional papers one? Oi, come on, share share ma, share share your experiences! 

Haha, J_M as an accountant who works in kpmg should be interested in earning $$ from the share market like his peers and other working adult discussing which shares to buy and not acca papers which he already passed. Like air asia share prices drops from rm2 to rm0.78. Hahahhahahahahha! 

Common sense

Not all acountants think that money is everything in life. There are a few ACCA grads who have become workers of God.

Focus more on external events such as the credit crunch crisis, Maltheus theory etc. to see the bigger picture.

Air Asia...

I think my opinions of ACCA students are pretty much sealed now. I'll need to look elsewhere for wife if this is how acca students are...