Exam date:
Friday 5 December 2008
Examiner: Shane Johnson
Paper P5
Advanced Performance Management
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Paper P5 Student Accountant Articles
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Tips for ACCA Paper P5 December 2008 exam
Question 1
Preparation of budget and actual profit statements (including
learning curves)
Non-financial performance measures
Question 2
Comments on financial performance (either 2 years of accounts or
comparison with similar companies)
Extra information required to be able to do a more detailed analysis
Importance/advantages of EBIDTA as a measure
Choice questions:
Question 3
Written question about deciding on performance measures
Question 4
Transfer pricing
Question 5
Written question on corporate failure
Paper P5 Course Notes (December 2008)
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- Contents - Aims and Objectives
- Chapter 1 - Introduction to Strategic Management Accounting
- Chapter 2 - Budgeting
- Chapter 3 - Learning Curves
- Chapter 4 - Changes in business structure and management accounting
- Chapter 5 - The effect of IT on modern management accounting
- Chapter 6 - Sources of Management Information
- Chapter 7 - Financial performance measurement
- Chapter 8 - Divisional performance measurement
- Chapter 9 - Non-financial performance measurement
- Chapter 10 - Performance in the not-for-profit sector
- Chapter 11 - Behavioural aspects of performance management
- Chapter 12 - Predicting and Preventing Corporate Failure
- Chapter 13 - Current Developments in Management Accounting
- Chapter 14 - Current trends in performance management
- Chapter 15 - Risk and Uncertainty
- Chapter 16 - Transfer Pricing
- Answers to Examples
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Video Lectures for Paper P5
In this series of our video podcasts, we will explore Learning Curves
(also applicable for Paper F5)
- Chapter 11 Learning curves - part 1
- Chapter 11 Learning curves - part 2
- Chapter 11 Learning curves - part 3
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Examiners Recommended Reading
C Drury Management and Cost Accounting (6th Edition) International Thomson Business Press
J Hope, R Fraser Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
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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