whose attend the BDO talk at ACCA career 2008, i wanna know whose the speaker beside Dato' Gan???

Are you crazy? ACCA is one of the easiest professional courses in the world. Just need to sit there and shake leg when the lecturer teach, then go home forget everything is normal. When exam just dish out some random reasoning and hope it makes sense. Just think, you need just 50% of the marks for an exam to pass, that's like answering one question wrong for every one you answer right. At most you have to study for the financial accounting papers, F7 and P2. The rest is mostly 40% logic, 20% guesswork and some good writing. Once i saw an entire 50 mark 3.3 question that even a high school student could answer perfectly.

You should go to any public university and see your peers struggle because they have no idea what the hell their esteemed lecturers are saying - it's probably even worse than primary school. Some people I know said they would never have gotten through uni classes if not for lots of support from seniors.

If you signed up for one of those hardcore colleges which churn out top scorers every semester then it's no use complaining, you are getting your money's worth of 'education' For me it's just one long holiday with short periods of stress and panic

Anyone done OBU degree before? Is there a necessity for it?

With the latest revision, we have to complete the ACCA Professional Ethics module (Paper P1) prior submitting our project :'(

Most lecturers have 2 opinions regarding this issue (student alike) :
1) Technically OBU doesn't offer much as "add-on knowledge" or as employment advancement. Most bosses (with a/c knowledge) will not critically
    judge the student's academic background by having an extra degree (by just spending few months to obtain it).
    ACCA alone will be sufficient to start your career + gaining relevant experience = create better job oppurnities.
    I got a very funny phrase here (why bother ordering another wine for dinner when you already have a bottle of champagne)

Definitely   but actually its not that important if you don't take OBU  (unless you want to prove to others especially those who don't know much about ACCA). I also planned to take but after hearing from most feedbacks i don't think it makes much a difference anyway.
However there is also no harm in taking it.
However if you have ACCA + CIMA or ACCA + CPA or ACCA + CFA or eben ACCA + ICAEW then it would truly make a big difference.

The pass rate was obtained here :
http://www.accaglobal.com/students/study_e...essional_scheme
Just came out only, i discovered it by chance.

i'll need a lil help regarding paper P4.

Topic merger & acquisition.

Type 3 acquisition - where the acquisition have both biz and fin. risk - must use iterative revaluation procedures which is something like risk adj. WAAC.

My question is why not we use the APV since the acquisition have fin. risk changes. So far i know the risk adj. WAAC can't cope with the fin. risk changes, instead biz risk only, so why we still use the risk adj. WAAC in valuation of type 3 acquisition???