ACCA Exam Tips for June 2019

In this post, we are going to share the ACCA Exam Tips for June 2019. These exam tips are provided by the BPP, through these tips you can expect what could be examined in the June 2019 attempt this time. These are only guessed, you shouldn’t totally rely on these tips. These ACCA Exam Tips for June 2019 are just to get your more focus on certain topics so you can perform well in the examination.

PM Exam Tips for June 2019

As all of the syllabus areas can be tested in sections A and B, the best advice is to study all areas of the syllabus. Sorry about that – but you knew that already!

Areas expected to be tested by the examiner in section C include (but are not limited to): budgetary systems, planning, and operational variances mix and yield variances and evaluation of the company performance (either as a whole or on a divisional basis). Given that this is a performance management paper you would be advised to be prepared to evaluate some performance.

Candidates are told to expect the unexpected, and since the introduction of MCQs, this advice is even more critical because more topics can be tested.

The exam will be approximately 40% calculation and 60% discussion, meaning it is not sufficient to be able to perform all the calculations to get a pass here.

TX Exam Tips for June 2019

Expect a couple of the OTs in section A to be devoted to the administration of income tax and corporation tax. That means you have to be comfortable with the following:

Due dates for payment of income tax (payments on account).
Due dates for the payment of corporation tax (installments for large companies).
Filing dates for the income tax and corporation tax returns.
Penalties and interest for late payments and returns.

Also likely to be tested in section A are the following:

VAT rules on registration, impairment loss (bad debt) relief, and the SME schemes relating to cash accounting, annual accounting, and flat- rate schemes.
Inheritance tax due on lifetime transfers both in the donor’s life and on death.
Statutory residence tests for individuals.
Identification of groups of companies for
Corporation tax loss reliefs and gains.
Trading loss reliefs for both companies and sole traders.

In section B, the exam questions will be similar to those of section A – only longer! This means you need a slightly different exam skill- set here. Section C will have much more open requirements. Your answers will need to show not just sound technical knowledge but also the application of that knowledge. The examiner has also asked for more logical presentation so markers can follow your thought progress.

Spend at least 50% of your revision time on answering section C questions in the practice and revision kits.

Learn your income tax and corporation tax proformas. Any calculations that require no more than two or three entries into your calculator can be included on the face of your proforma (eg time apportioning a salary). Calculations that are more complex (eg company car benefits) need separate workings, which are properly referred (W1, W2, etc) and have a heading.

We know the two longest questions will focus on income tax and corporation tax. These are likely to include:

Employment benefits.
Property income.
Relief for pension contributions.
Adjustments to profit to arrive at trading income for both companies and sole traders – in past sittings we have seen a number of questions where you have to correct errors in computations included in the scenario.
Capital allowance computations.

FR Exam Tips for June 2019

Section A’s OTs will test a wide range of topics, including several on consolidation and interpretation of financial statements. Expect a few questions on non-core areas (inflation, specialized entities).

In section B, each scenario could be a mix of topic areas or focused on one topic and will usually consist of two or three calculations and two or three narratives. Questions are not dependent on each other and can be answered in any order.

Section C consists of two 20-mark questions, one covering interpretations and the other

preparation of financial statements. One question is likely to be in the context of a single company and one in the context of a group – so you could have a single company interpretation and a groups preparation, or visa versa.

Accounts preparation questions may include extracts or stand-alone calculations or full statements of profit or loss and other comprehensive income and/or statement of financial position. Both questions will cover the accounting for items from other areas of the syllabus.

They may also include a short separate part, for example with a statement of changes in equity, statement of cash flows extract, earnings per share calculation or linked written topic.

A consolidated question would include one subsidiary and often an associate, with adjustments (eg fair values, deferred/contingent consideration, PUP on inventories/PPE, intragroup trading and balances, goods/cash in transit).

A single entity question could be preparation from a trial balance or restatement of given financial statements, with the usual adjustments for depreciation, revaluation and current/ deferred tax (including deferred tax on revaluation), plus a mixture of adjustments on other syllabus areas, eg leases, substance over form issues, financial instruments (charge in fair value or amortised cost), share issues, government grants, inventory valuation, revenue recognition or construction contracts.

AA Exam Tips for June 2019

In section A, each mini-case question will test single topic areas of the syllabus and so will test syllabus area A, B, C, D or E. You should particularly expect questions in section A to focus on syllabus areas A and E.

For Section B, Q16 to Q18 expected areas to include:

Audit planning.
Audit risk (identification and explanation of audit risk from a scenario and explanation of the auditor’s response to each risk).
Internal Audit.
Internal controls (identification and explanation of deficiencies in internal control and the recommendation of suitable internal controls or description of tests of controls).
Audit procedures (both substantive procedures and tests of control).

Try to use a tabular format in your solutions where relevant as the examining team has said students who do this score better.

FM Exam Tips for June 2019

In section A, the OTs will often be knowledge-based (testing your knowledge of key technical terms) and will balance out the questions in section B and C. So expect a good number of these questions to test your understanding of financial management and objectives (ratio analysis, the concept of shareholder wealth), as well as the economic environment and financial institutions topics (financial intermediation, fiscal and monetary policies). The efficient market hypothesis is also likely to be tested.

Areas to expect in section B are working capital management (operating cycle, the impact of a change in credit period, or accepting a factor’s offer), business or security valuations (methods of valuation), and financial risk management (currency risk or interest rate risk).

The two questions in section C will focus mainly on syllabus sections C, D and E. That’s working capital management, investment appraisal (think NPV with inflation and tax here), and business finance – an evaluation of financing options (interest coverage and gearing ratios are likely), or cost of capital and analysis are most likely. Whichever of these topics does not feature in section C is likely to appear in section B.

SBL Exam Tips for June 2019

Welcome to your first four-hour closed exam. SBL aims to build on the knowledge that you gained at the Applied Knowledge and Applied Skills level, but also has its own distinct syllabus content.

The exam will focus on one main organization, and all the question requirements will relate to this organization. You may, however, have to

take on a variety of roles, which may require you to adopt an internal or external perspective when answering the question.

All of the questions are compulsory and will consist of 80 technical marks and 20 professional skills marks.

ACCA acknowledges that the SBL exam is demanding, and time management is a key part of any exam success strategy. You are advised to

spend 40 minutes reading, planning and interpreting the requirement and the information/exhibits provided. That leaves 200 minutes to build up your 50% pass mark.

One area students often fall down on is producing lots and lots of unnecessary calculations. By planning the numerical analysis that you intend to perform will ensure you aren’t producing numbers just for the sake of it.

SBR Exam Tips for June 2019

You should start by reading the examiner’s approach article on the ACCA website, and while you are there read any other exam technique and technical articles.

In section A, the first question will be based on group accounting and may include complications such as a foreign subsidiary, discontinued activities, disposals and/or acquisitions. Be aware that this question may test consolidation statements of cash flows, as was the case in December 2018.

The second question will cover the reporting and ethical implications in a given scenario. Make sure you consider any threats to the fundamental principles of ACCA’s Code of Ethics and Conduct in your answer.

Section B will always include a question or part-question involving the analysis or appraisal of information from the perspective of a stakeholder. In the December 2018 exam, this involved explaining the nature of tax accounting in the financial statements to an investor. Even if this sounds daunting, make sure you have a go at answering it.

Current issues could be examined in either section A or section B. The Conceptual Framework and associated exposure draft have featured a lot in both the September 2018 and December 2018 exams – be prepared for this to be the case in June 2019 as well.

AFM Exam Tips for June 2019

From last September every exam has had questions, which focused on section B of the syllabus (advanced investment appraisal) and E (treasury and advanced risk management techniques). These areas are therefore a high priory for your revision phase.

Section A questions are often based on core areas such as project appraisal (domestic or overseas), business valuations and business/ financial reorganizations. These areas often

include the cost of capital calculations. Risk management may also feature in a number of different ways, eg value at risk, real options, hedging or risk mapping.

For section B the tips are:

Risk management (currency or interest rate). • Dividend policy and general financing issues. • Real options.

APM Exam Tips for June 2019

Question 1 focuses on a range of issues from syllabus area A (strategic planning and control), C (performance measurement systems and design) and D (strategic performance management).

In recent exams, Q1 has often required linking a business’s mission to its performance objectives using the concept of CSFs and KPIs. You may well also have to critique and recommend improvements to performance reports and the balanced scorecard could well be tested in this context. The assessment of performance is also likely to be tested and this could easily include benchmarking as a theme.

Financial performance measures (ROCE/RI/EVA, etc) are also likely to be commonly examined in question 1, but don’t neglect non-financial issues from syllabus section D, such as quality management and reward systems.

One of section B questions will come from syllabus section E (performance evaluation and corporate failure). In section B, commonly tested areas include quality management, information reporting (big data and lean information), the application of strategic models (PEST, Porter’s 5 forces, the value chain), HR frameworks (reward and appraisal systems), risk management and environmental management accounting.

ATX Exam Tips for June 2019

One of the section A questions will focus on personal tax issues and the other will focus on corporate tax issues. In question 1 there will be four professional skills marks and in section A there will be five marks available on ethics.

Topics/scenarios you would expect to see are:

Personal income tax scenarios, which could involve investing in a pension, investing in EIS, SEIS or VCTs, share schemes, employment income possibly with termination payments, a personal service company, property income or takeover.
Unincorporated business, particularly including loss reliefs, partnerships or basis period rules.
A question focusing on overseas issues. This could be income tax, CGT, IHT or a corporate scenario.
CGT v IHT, including the availability of reliefs.
Corporate scenarios – likely to focus in more depth on intangibles, research and development issues, corporate groups or consortia.
Special corporate scenarios such as liquidation purchase of own shares, close or investment companies.
A business transformation scenario question, such as selling a sole trader business, incorporation or, in a corporate context, the sale of shares versus the sale of trade and assets.
Other common types of question/calculations:

AAA Exam Tips for June 2019

The most recent AAA exams have not contained any real surprises, although you should note the presence of the embedded email and the supporting exhibits in the case study. Section A’s case study is set at the planning stage of the audit for a single company, a group of companies, or potentially several audit clients.

Expect the detailed information to include extracts of financial information, strategic, operational and other relevant information for client business, as well as extracts from audit working papers, which could include the results of analytical procedures. Candidates will have to address a range of requirements from syllabus sections A, B, C and D. This will be a real-world situation where you will need to address a range of issues simultaneously in relation to planning, risk assessment evidence gathering and ethical and professional considerations.

In section B, one question will always predominately come from syllabus section E, so you must always be ready to answer a question relating to completion, review, and reporting. Think here about the assessment of going concern, the impact of subsequent events, evaluating identified misstatements and any corresponding effects on the auditor’s report. Candidates may also be asked to critique an auditor’s report or a report that is to be provided to management or those charged with governance.

The other section B question can be drawn from any other syllabus area – A, B, C, D and F. Syllabus section G on current issues is unlikely to form the basis of any question on its own, but instead will be incorporated into the case study or either of the section B questions.

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