Exam date:
Wednesday 10 December 2008
Examiner: Steve Skidmore
Paper P3
Business Analysis
Paper P3 The Syllabus
Paper P3 Student Accountant
Paper P3 Past Questions and Answers
Tips for ACCA Paper P3 December 2008 exam
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.
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Paper P3 Practice Lectures
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Practice Question 1
Practice Question 2
Audio Lectures for Paper P3
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- Examples of strategic problems
- Mintzberg's emergent strategies
- Strategic lenses
- The rational model
- The Environment - PESTEL
- Porter's Diamond
- Strategic capability
- Value chain
- Portfolio Analysis
- Resources
- Objective setting - potential problems
- Reaching objectives
- Strategic Options - steps
- Diversification
- Organic growth (updated)
- McKinsey 7s
- Cultural web
- Structure
- Wide/flat structures; decentralisation
- Virtual structures
- The marketing concept
- Segmentation and targeting
- Positioning and the marketing mix
- Marketing research
- Types of process change
- Process change and the value chain
- Process change approaches and suggestions
- The change kaleidescope
- Commoditisation of process outsourcing
- Strategies for managing change
- Data, information, knowledge
- Acquiring and designing software
- The internet and e-business, Part (a)
- The internet and e-business, Part (b)
- Customer relationship management
- Quality and quality management
- Project management
- Assessing project risk and controlling project time
- Human resources management
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Examiners Recommended Reading
Primary Texts:
Johnson G, Scholes K and Whittington R, Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases: Enhanced Media Edition (Enhanced Media Text & Case)
(2003) Chaffey D, E-Business and E-Commerce Management
Bratton J and Gold J, Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice
Secondary texts:
Tricker R and Sherring-Lucas B, ISO 9001: 2000 In Brief: 2000 in Brief (In Brief)
Pande P and Holpp L, What Is Six Sigma?
Grundy T and Brown L, Strategic Project Management, Thomson Learning (2002)
Schwalbe K, Introduction to Project Management, Second Edition
These books are recommended by the examiner . If you are having problems with a particular paper, or if you want to do extra reading out of interest, then you might them useful.
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