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IBF Launched its ACCA Exam Tips of Fundamental Level for June’13

F4- Corporate & Business Law English legal system Court structure Exclusion clauses Intention to create legal relations Breach of contract Consideration Privity of contract Terms of the contract Intention to create legal relations Duty of care, breach of duty of care & Causes & defences Professional negligence Employees v self employed workers Redundancy Liability of agents & partners Termination of partnership lifting the veil private v public compan

May 24, 2013 No Comments Full Story

ACCA Examiners are like Sharks and Students are like Fresh Fish

I know you guys are all stuffed up with preparations but remember - this time will be over well before you realize. There's still time to prepare and make your best efforts possible.  Here's a little story for you guys to motivate. The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, Fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to brin

May 17, 2013 No Comments Full Story

A Lawyer, Insurance Company and ACCA Student in Exam Hall

Contrary to popular belief - Corporate world in full on humor. And the only thing they are unfolding on us is a use of common sense. Here's a little story for you guys to cheer you up before exams (don't forget to use common sense in Exam hall).  A Charlotte, North Carolina lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against fire, among other things. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his

May 17, 2013 No Comments Full Story

ACCA Launches Foundation Diploma for Accountancy

Press Release A new award called the Foundation Diploma has been launched in the country by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) here on Thursday.  The diploma would provide essential knowledge and skills to those students without relevant training and a clear entry route to ACCA’s main accountancy qualification, called the ACCA Qualification. It can be completed within 12 months. A launch ceremony in this regard was held here at a local hotel in which a large numb

May 3, 2013 No Comments Full Story

8 Things ACCA Students Cannot Learn in Classes

The best part about delivering lectures to amateur level accountancy students are their questions - Sometimes very brilliant and sometimes very cruel ;) I was impressed during my last lecture, while delivering a lecture on ACCA paper F1, when a student innocently asked me: “Sir - What are WE not learning in the classroom?” I answered the question as best I could, and tried to give some decent advice with the time I had, but for some reason this question stuck with me.  Now that I

April 14, 2013 7 Comments Full Story

Exam Success Celebrated at ACCA Event in Lahore

Former Pakistan cricket captain Aamir Sohail was among the expert panelists discussing how to promote talent at an awards ceremony in Lahore which celebrated the success of students who scored high marks in exams run by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).  He said that talent does not know or realize its true potential, it is up to us to help them and hone them. He also said that he was delighted that talent was being taken up as an important issue, and that talks we

February 14, 2013 No Comments Full Story

IFRS Foundation Publishes Free Teaching Material

The IFRS Foundation today published the first part of its Education Initiative’s comprehensive Framework-based IFRS teaching material.  The free-to-download teaching material is designed to assist IFRS teachers to educate IFRS learners more effectively. In particular, the material is designed to support those teaching IFRS, so that they can progressively develop in their students the ability to make the estimates and judgements that are necessary to apply IFRS and the IFRS for SMEs. T

January 31, 2013 No Comments Full Story

Free Live Webcast on 5th December by IASB – Brilliant Opportunity for P2 Students

By Murtaza Hussain Jaffri On 05 December 2012 IASB staff will give a live web presentation on proposals included in the recently issued Exposure Draft - Classification and Measurement: Limited Amendments to IFRS 9 including a question and answer session.  The presentation will be delivered by; Sue Lloyd, Senior Technical Director, IASB Riana Wiesner, Senior Technical Manager, IASB Yulia Feygina, Practice Fellow, IASB For the convenience of those in different time zones, th

December 2, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Pirated ACCA and CFA Textbook Ring Busted in China

Pakistan is indeed a free country. For everyone including people involved in piracy of Videos and textbooks. This is not a surprise for anyone here in Pakistan to witness photocopied ACCA textbooks in few institutes and on book shops, a serious problem for publishers who invest a considerable amount behind their work.  But things are different in China. According to Shanghai Daily, police detained 35 suspects for pirating thousands of copies of international accountant and financial assoc

August 30, 2012 No Comments Full Story

Good News: ACCA Launched ‘Student Planner’ App on iPhone and iPad

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has launched two iPhone and iPad applications for its students and accountancy professionals, according to a press release.  The ‘Student Planner’ and ‘Research and Insights’ apps will help students and accountancy professionals access relevant information about key accounting issues. “These apps have been designed to make it easier to access information on technology that more and more people are now relying on, such a

August 29, 2012 1 Comment Full Story

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