Hi, I am a CAT student now, would like to enquire from the seniors, how to know whether you are a World prize/Malaysia prize winner? Does it come along with the result?

I am kinda weak in costing. Any books that may helped?

Yes, I am doing CAT Paper 7 currently. I do refer to Paper 4 BPP textbook as well, but there are something new appear in Paper 7 which I never learnt during Paper 4. And I find that Paper 7 textbook is insufficient for me to check out some exercise solutions. Thank you for recommend me the LCCI book. I never read through it, don't know how it looks like, hopefully it helps.


P/s: I am that kind of student like you, but no choice. Costing is killing me badly. I have to be friend with him intead of get him as my enemy Guess that you have passed all the costing related papers.

Anyone from Mc Orange Institute here? Just wanna confirm with u guys, is it Mc Orange Institute has changed its name to Orange International College? I just send a mail to Mc Orange Institute, I am unsure which name should I address in my mail. I tried to log in to Mc Orange website but it is under contruction for few weeks already. And finally, I get another link www.oic.edu.my.

I am apology if the related posts have been appear before this.

I wish if I have the chance to visit any manufacturing factory and discover it.

So any forumer here has being makan by this institute currently? I am still consider which institute i should go for in the coming days.

Does the college name that we graduate from will be stated in our ACCA cert? Will the reputation of the college's reputation plays an important role which may influence the boss's decision in hiring employees? Eg. a student who graduate from Sunway will get a better offer than a XYZ college even both the students get the same results, ceteris paribus?

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Added on March 7, 2008, 1:55 pmIf doing OBU at institutes other than Sunway, how does it cost?

It is better to doing OBU straight after u pass ACCA Part 2 (F1-F9), or doing this after complete the whole ACCA? Which one would be recommended?

This post has been edited by jactval: Mar 7 2008, 01:55 PM

BTW, does the OBU degree qualification can be equivalent to local university degree?

You mean from the point of Big 4, OBU degree is not a degree at all??????

For those who complete ACCA only get the same pay as degree holders? Is there any misunderstanding?

Facts needed. Thank you.

OBU degree/ACCA grad/Local degree=SAME STARTING PAY

This is what u guys mean?

I guess there must be something better/more advantages for ACCA graduate than local uni degree gua? If not, why still so many ACCA students are striving so hard instead of obtain a local accounting degree.

This post has been edited by jactval: Mar 9 2008, 09:23 PM

I have the same queries as you. Anybody may give a response?

Congrat
Excellent result!

I just don't understand why some people are worry about the registration matter? Don't the college/institute you enrolled will help you to arrange all these affairs?

I see. Perhaps my teacher who in charge of our exam affairs is over pampered us already . She neither ask us to check our status nor registration form. She may help us by hook or by crook, ensure all the process runs smoothly. But I been heard that some of the institutes' students cannot sit for the exam at last minute even though all the fees being paid.

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Added on March 13, 2008, 9:54 pmI am just curious. What is TARC internal-assessed mean? Does it mean TAR College students can obtain ACCA qualification after they pass their college exam without taking the real ACCA paper from UK(like most of us taking)? They can obtain OBU Degree In Applied Accounting as well? If so, OBU+Sheffield Hallam=2 degree Got such great benefit offer to Tarcians?

This post has been edited by jactval: Mar 13 2008, 09:54 PM

TARC do provide ACCA (inclusive of internal and external assessed), but UTAR only provides the Degree in Accounting which allow to claim for the maximum exemption up to 9 papers, that's mean a degree grad is consider as an ACCA grad only when he/she has passed all the Part 3 papers.

First of all, what do you mean by "student from outside"? Student from other colleges? Working adult? Study part-time ACCA at TARC?

FYI, TARC is not as flexible though. Let's said u wanna do your ACCA at TARC, you have to take the diploma --> advanced diploma instead of taking the merely ACCA subject itself, for advanced diploma level I'm unsure, but for diploma level, it is. That's mean by study ACCA at TARC, you have to take other subjects at diploma level, eg. Microeconomics, Fundamental of Marketing, Bahasa Malaysia, English...and many lap lap zap zap subjects(anyway, some of these will be business-related subjects and may claim for certain ACCA paper examption). So in total, you need 3 to 4 years to complete and obtain your ACCA provided you pass all within the years.


The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

In the First Year, students will follow the Diploma in Commerce (Financial Accounting) or Diploma in Business Studies (Accounting) course and gain exemptions for Fundamentals (Knowledge Module) and Paper F4 of ACCA. In the Second Year, students will follow the Internally Assessed ACCA Fundamentals (Skills Module) programme in the First Year of the Advanced Diploma in Commerce (Financial Accounting). In the Third Year, students are prepared to sit for the Professional Level examinations of ACCA.
extracted from TARC's website.

My advice would be, since you are not a Tarcian but only wanna study ACCA at TARC, why not go for some private institutes like Kasturi, Mc Orange(OIC currently)? Institutes like these only require you to concentrate on your ACCA subjects. I heard some Tarcian also takes extra tuition at these institutes.


My 2cents



P/s: the word "you" just a symbolic of somebody.

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Added on March 28, 2008, 1:14 pmNono, you make a mistake here.

If you choose TARC:
diploma 2 years(or 1 years for those who pass STPM) --> advanced diploma 2 years= total 3 or 4 years.

If you choose UTAR:
once you complete your degree, it is a degree in accounting, would not be considered as ACCA grad. At UTAR, you can enter to its degree at various ways intead of the only diploma. Kindly refer to http://www.utar.edu.my/pdf/courses/AC.pdf

Hope it helped.

This post has been edited by jactval: Mar 28 2008, 01:14 PM

I'm confused with the different variants of ACCA papers. Is the ACCA papers(except Law and Taxation papers) are all the same worldwide? Eg. no matter where the country you come from, and during the exam, everyone will get the exactly same questions? My curiousity arised when I surfed the ACCA website --> Pass year exam papers section, I discovered something looks like this:






I wonder why each exam papers(F7, F8, F9 for example) are being arranged in the various variants (HKG, INT, IRL, MYS, SGP, UK...)? Is there any any difference between those papers but there are neither Law nor Taxation papers?

This post has been edited by jactval: Mar 30 2008, 01:22 PM

Hi scorpok, thank you for your helpful information. BTW, the mentioned FRS standard is applied to which ACCA Papers? Law? Tax? All? Sorry for my ignorance as I'm still at my CAT level currently

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Added on March 30, 2008, 9:55 pmYa. I just wonder why for F7 Financial Reporting, for example, neither Law nor Tax paper, but there are still different variants appeared on the exam papers, like HKG, MYS, SGP.... All in all, are the exactly same questions what. You get what I meant?


This post has been edited by jactval: Mar 30 2008, 09:55 PM