Year: 2017

  • CIMA P2: Transfer Pricing

    Transfer pricing is a subject that crops up on the CIMA P2 paper and here is my take on the subject. What is Transfer Pricing? Transfer pricing is common place among multi national corporations where there are high volumes of “inter-company” activity. Companies tend to use transfer pricing to lower their overall tax bill of…

  • CIMA Exam Practice Kits

    Exam practice kits vary from learning provider to learning provider. Personally, I am a big fan of the Kaplan exam practice kits (the actual text book itself) – there is something to be said for a holding a physical book in your hand while studying! Nevertheless, there a range of other materials out there that…

  • BES Group: Financial Statements Analysis

    The May 2017 Management Case Study pre-seen was published very recently by CIMA. The pre-seen gives us ample financial information to work through and we’ve been digging into the numbers at VIVA Financial Tuition. The following article explains some of the main points relating to the financial statements for both the BES Group and its…

  • CIMA F1 Exam Tips

    The CIMA F1 exam Financial Reporting and Taxation can be a tough exam to pass. It’s heavily weighted towards financial accounting and reporting – it makes up 45% of the syllabus – so it’s the core area for your studies and revision. You must be comfortable with the end to end financial accounting process and…

  • CIMA SCS May 2017: Fizz

    The final round of pre seen materials were released for the May 2017 sitting of the CIMA case study exams. It revolves around a company called “Fizz” and your role in the exam is that of Senior Manager. You can find the official pre-seen materials from CIMA here. Earlier this month I posted some advice…

  • CIMA MCS May 2017: BES

    CIMA released the pre-seen materials for the upcoming MCS exam in May 2017 this week and this gives students the chances to prepare themselves to pass the exam first time. The MCS exam combines the theory you have learnt from the E2, P2 and F2 objective tests and pulls it together in the form of…

  • CIMA OCS May 2017: Ashworth Lea

    The May OCS (operational case study) exam pre-seen materials were released by CIMA on Friday 24th March, so here is insight to what we know with the Ashworth Lea OCS case study as well as some excellent preview videos from Astranti that focus on the pre-seen, top 10 issues and strategic analysis You can find…

  • CIMA P2: Learning Curves

    It’s taken a while for me to get back on track with my CIMA P2 studies but here I am with an article on Learning Curves which is a feature of the CIMA P2 syllabus. The Learning Curve The learning curve relates to the observed tendency that workers become adept at a task, the more…

  • CIMA Case Study Advice: May 2017

    The May 2017 CIMA case studies are just around the corner and this article should put you on the right track for a pass mark. Having passed the OCS exam myself last year – you can read more on that here – I hope I can offer students who are facing the same problems and…

  • Passing the CIMA Gateway Exam

    CIMA students who are taking the gateway route can be find extremely tough to be exam ready and confident enough to pass the MCS exam. But Nkunde C. Mbong did just that. Here are a few words of wisdom from Nkunde on how she PASSED the CIMA Gateway Exam. In an earlier article, I highlighted…

  • CIMA Mock Exams: The Practice Tests Academy

    It’s a common theme when reading feedback from examiners and CIMA – mock exam practice is the key to passing CIMA exams, in fact you can apply that to pretty much any exam you plan to sit! Justyna from The Practice Tests Academy wrote an article for the website last month about the need for…

  • CIMA Study Prime: P2 Course

    I’ve decided to go down the route of using the CIMA Study Prime course for my next upcoming exam – P2 Advanced Management Accounting. Although I used the Astranti materials to great effect when passing my last exam (E2) first time with a scaled score of 121, I wanted to see what else was on the…

  • MCS: Menteen Industry Analysis

    The pre-seen materials have been released for a few weeks now so the MCS students have had time to digest it, so it’s a good time to look at the Industry Analysis for the MCS Menteen case study. With this in mind, Thomas Newman, from The CIMA Hub has kindly looked at the file industry…

  • MCS and SCS Exam Results

    The CIMA exam results for the November 2016  MCS and SCS exams are released today and many students will be wondering what steps to take next. If you passed the MCS, you will be thinking what exam to take next and when to start studying but if you unfortunately failed the MCS you need to…

  • A New Year – a NEW approach!

    2016: A Year in Review I’ve been writing thecimastudent.com blog and website for over 12 months now and I feel the time is right for a change in approach for 2017. The idea behind the site was to help my own progress through the CIMA qualification. I felt, by going into depth and writing articles…