You can write whatever college your study and according to my working experience, nobody will interest where are you study once you are grad ACCA. I can tell you also once you work for few year, the boss only interest to know what you can contribute to their co, but not SUNWAY STUDENT.

But what I know was every year Big 4 will get new employee due to their senior leaving. Basically all these boss will only know Sunway due to their good relationship with Sunway boss. But they just give chance to Sunway student doesn't mean Sunway student can enter to Big 4 easy. Everything is depend on the Audit Manager.

If the Audit Manager accept you b'cos of only you are the Sunway Student, I can said he won't be a good superior. You no need to hope can learn anything from him cos he only see Sunway student but doesn't make good judgement whether you are good staff or not.

I disagree Sunway will be 1st choice for ACCA student. For choose college, it is depend on what you want. If want good study environment then choose Sunway, but must accept their inexperience lecturer. If you want experience lecturer, then choose KSA/MCO, but have to accept their study environment. There is no perfect in the world.

A lot of full time student study in low standard college KSA, MCO, SEGI, but oso can grad within 3 years. Means that good student go to where also can study, not neccesary need good study environment.

Lastly, I totally disagree Sunway ACCA student CV got more value than KSA/MCO ACCA student CV. I also never heard when boss know you are Sunway ACCA student, then will got more chance. TOTALLY STUPID.........

If the Audit Manager accept you b'cos of only you are the Sunway Student, I can said he won't be a good superior. You no need to hope can learn anything from him cos he only see Sunway student but doesn't make good judgement whether you are good staff or not.

Do you have anything to say against TARC ACCA lecturers then?
See, you are jumping to conclusions, and it seriously shows that you have something personal against Sunway or Sunway students.

My conclusion very simple, every ACCA student grad also same, there is no such thing say "Sunway ACCA student got more value in their CV".

For TARC lecturer, I can say a lot of it also inexperience due to TARC don't want to pay high salary to employe experience lecturer, but their student exempt part 1 & part 2 exam. In Prof level paper, a lot of TARC student go to KL college for add tuition or revision class.

And we already close arguement since yesterday, please do not bring it up again. I'm very disappointed you still want to bring it to argue.

But I need to tell you something, since you still new to ACCA, please don't simply make conclusion say Sunway very good place to study ACCA. Everything oso good and bad, no perfect in the world.

Excuse me, I'm not planning to argue about it here, it was supposed to be over long ago till you brought it up.

Since WHEN I made conclusion saying that Sunway is very good place to study ACCA? I did not say it before, but now I will say it, that I have made my choice that I will study in Sunway because I would prefer to have good study environment, I love to ask a lot of questions and I have read somewhere that students get told off by their classmates for asking too much questions.

I don't want to generalize, but it seems like students from KL colleges see Sunway students as spoilt rich brats who have alot of money to study in Sunway, pay so much $$$ but yet get inexperienced lecturers, is that how you KL colleges students (or ex-students) look at Sunway students?

Arguement already close and this thing is irrelevant for your study since you decide to choose Sunway. I won't be answer you any question for this case again.

But if you think Sunway lecturer really very good, then please don't ask me anything regarding KL lecturer in future.

Don't worry I won't 

Tips for ACCA F1 - F3

No exam tips available - Multiple choice questions cover entire syllabus
Tips for ACCA F4 Corporate and Business Law (Eng)

There are fourteen of them even though there are only ten questions.

The number's in brackets behind the topic are the question numbers from the BPP revision kit.

              1. Judicial precedent / delegated legislation ( 4, 7, 8 )
              2. Terms, conditions, warranties, innominates ( 22 )
              3. Redundancy ( 41, 42 )
              4. Consideration ( 19, 20 )
              5. Exclusion clauses ( 24 )
              6. Breach ( 28, 29 )
              7. Tort and auditor negligence ( 35, 36 )
              8. Partnership compared with limited company ( 52, 53 )
              9. Company names ( 65 )
              10. Capital terms ( 68 )
              11. Meetings and resolutions ( 78, 79 )
              12. Statutory duties of directors ( 83 )
              13. Corporate governance and directors ( 95 )
              14. Money laundering ( 100 )


Tips for ACCA Paper F5 "Performance Management"

                Question 1

                Budgets / Learning curves

                Question 2

                Decision making under uncertainty (maximin etc..)

                Question 3

                Mix & Yield variances

                Question 4

                Financial ratios / Non-financial performance measures / transfer
                pricing


Tips for ACCA Paper F6 "Taxation" (UK)

F6 is very predictable so no tips as such



Practise as many exam standard questions as you can.


Make sure you do to time. After the 15 minute reading time you have 1.8 minutes per mark. If a question is split between part (a) 10 marks and part (b) 10 marks then only spend 18 minutes on part (a) and then move on to part (b).


Look at all the requirements of the question, can you answer an easy parts first, for example one part maybe standalone and on something very straightforward, so do this part first
You do not have to answer the questions in the order they are set, if question 5 is the easiest do this one first.

Question 3 will be the hardest so leave this until last but make sure you leave 36 minutes to answer it.
Do not panic if you can’t remember something in a question, don’t spend too much time trying to remember it, have a go or even guess. Then you can move on to other parts of the question.



Above all you need 50% to pass, so find the marks you can do. There will always be more than 50% of the question which is examining core areas of the syllabus, only a few marks will be fringe areas, but you do not have to worry about these as you can find the 50 marks you need to pass

Tips for ACCA F7 Financial Reporting (INT)

Question 1

Consolidation, probably Statement of Financial Position, with subsidiary
( full year ) and Associate ( part year )

Question 2

Preparation of financial statements from a trial balance or draft set of
accounts with 6 or 7 adjustments to make - beware the accrued loan interest

Question 3

Cash flow, with or without an interpretation section. Probably with
interpretation so ....a relatively straight-forward cash flow for ( say ) 12
marks and a report interpreting the results for 13 marks

Question 4

15 marker on some lesser examined topic. Construction contracts would be
my guess - but it could be anything - EPS, Leases, Contingencies and
provisions ..... )

Question 5

Could be absolutely anything! Any part of the question Mrs Harper from
the BPP revision kit would be a good Q5 - or part (b) of Q5


Tips for ACCA Paper F8 Audit and Assurance (INT)

30 Mark question:

The audit of non-current assets, including final audit work and expected internal controls.



10 Mark question:

Audit risk or audit committee.



20 Mark questions (3):

CAAT/sampling Audit reports

Letter of representation,

Post balance sheet events,

Liabilities and contingencies.

Tips for ACCA Paper F9 "Financial Management"

Question 1

Foreign exchange:
Forecasting exchange rate
Managing risk (forward rates / money markets)

Question 2

WACC calculation / discussion of ways of raising finance

Question 3

Receivables management / cash management - Miller Orr

Question 4

Capital Rationing / discussion of limitations

Tips for ACCA P1 Professional Accountant

Coming soon

Tips for ACCA P2 Corporate Reporting (INT)

Question 1

Consolidated Cash Flow Statement
Question 2

Shares and share based payment schemes
Question 3
Deferred tax
Question 4
Various IAS/IFRS question (4 or 5 accounting problems to comment on)


Tips for ACCA Paper P3 Business Analysis

Part A - 50 mark case study
Position analysis (5 forces, PESTEL, generic strategies etc).
Foreign expansion/globalisation/convergence.



    * Part B – 2 from 3 25 mark questions
      • Business process change and quality – DMAIC, CMMI. Value chain. (See September article in Student Accountant). Commoditisation of business processes and outsourcing.
      • Quality of software (V model). Relationship marketing. E-business evolution.
      • Corporate structure – divisionalisation, matrix, decentralisation.

Tips for ACCA Paper P5 Advanced Performance Management

Coming soon

Tips for ACCA P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance (INT)

Question 1

Audit risk / Fin statement risk
Question 2

Forensic accounting (Student Sept 08) Q53
(Ethical and professional issues)?
Question 3
Audit reports
Question 4

Comment on matters requiring consideration + State the audit evidence you should expect to find

Question 5
Audit work on suspected fraud (q27 Indigo)

Another example - A 5 star hotel who maintain their hotel extremely well, incurred huge amount of expenditure for maintenance. Their decision was not to depreciate their building, as they argued that the expense of maintenance cost already reflects the true and fair view of the f/s.

Thus, they didnt need to follow IAS 16,( by depreciating, then revalue the property upwards again ).