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CIMA - red hot tips are here!
The latest PQ magazine hits the streets this week jammed packed with advice for CIMA exam sitters. There is T4 watch, a look at the Strategic pre-seen dilemmas and final give you exam tips for May. The full tip list are now live on the pqmagazine website! But here’s a taster for E2 Enterprise Management:
BPP says:
- pproaches to strategy – comparing and contrasting the formulation/different levels of strategy
- The competitive environment – analysing the environment or assessing the value/benefit of the analysis – could be extended to include stakeholders
- Business ethics and corporate governance (including CSR) – importance to the company and analysing potential issues arising within a business context
- Management and leadership – in relation to management styles and the importance of managing groups – likely to incorporate conflect if examined in section B
- Project management – tools and skills in a project management context, including project risks/management of cross functional teams
- Culture – the theory and the impact it has on organisational success
First Intuition says:
- Rational strategy
- Project management
- Management of the treasury & finance functions
Kaplan says:
- Strategy formulation
- Competition advantage models
- Project management tools
- Feasibility studies
- Conflict
iCount says:
- Competitive environment
- Porter’s diamond
- Project management
- Management styles
Mind the GAAP
The UK Accounting Standard’s Board has just undertaken a massive consultation on the future of UK GAAP. PQ magazine asked chairman Ian Mackintosh to tell us how he sees the future. Whatever happens the ASB retains the responsibility for overseeing and setting standards for all UK entities other than the listed consolidators (which are covered by European law). To read the exclusive interview go to the pqmagazine.com study zone. You will also find our interview with Sir David Tweedie (chair of the IASB).
You is gone, until next year
Former KPMG trainee Vikas Gupta has been banned from provisional membership. Just as well really as he had claimed £25,597 worth of fraudulent expenses to pay off his online gambling habit. The Manchester PQ was apparently on a six-month contract after failing his exams (perhaps he sent too much time online). An ICAEW tribunal made no order to pay back costs and said he was ineligible to re-register with the institute for 12 months. PQ was confused by this ruling. Does that mean after a year this PQ could reapply to the ICAEW!
Inspiring talent
A perfect academic record might not be the only way of spotting future talent, admits PwC. To a certain extent the firm is challenging its own previous assumptions by changing its assessment route, with the introduction of the Inspired Talent scheme.
The scheme will, of course, work alongside the firm’s established graduate recruitment programme. Currently, depending on the role, applicants to PwC’s graduate scheme are required to have between 280-340 UCAS points tariff and a class 2.1 degree.
Inspired Talent candidates will need to complete online tests and submit a business case to demonstrate their drive, resilience, entrepreneurialism and commercial acumen. Online tests including numeracy and judgement skills will rigorously assess ‘intellectual capacity’, explained PwC.
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