Tag: Home Study
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The Week Ahead – 22nd February
It’s a nail biting week for the strategic students who are taking the case study exams this week – let’s hope its your final CIMA exam and you get a positive result! However, the operational and management level students can relax (for the time being). Although I would suggest you start thinking about what awaits…
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The Week Ahead – 15th February 2016
The operational case study students can breath a sigh of relief now the February exam sitting is over – now it’s down to the management students to get down to business this week! Here is what is coming up on the website this week. The following few weeks I will be focusing on the objective…
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How to pass CIMA Objective Tests
The main focus for the last couple of months has been on the CIMA Case Study exams but now, with the February exam sitting under way, it’s a good opportunity to look at how to pass the CIMA objective tests. CIMA 2015 Syllabus Under the new 2015 syllabus, the CIMA objective exams have had a…
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F2: Useful Links and Resoruces
If you have passed the CIMA operational level you will be looking to tackle the management level next. With F2 Advanced Financial Reporting, you will be building on your knowledge gained from the F1 paper. The bulk of the paper focuses on Financial Reporting – so topics like group accounts, complex group structures and the…
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The Week Ahead – 18th January 2016
Last week was a much more productive week for me personally in regards to my F2 studies. I managed to catch up on some slack from week one as well the week two topics I planned to cover. Here is what to expect for the week ahead on The CIMA Student. CIMA News There was…
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CIMA SCS Feb 2016: Rio
The final set of links and resources for the February 2016 case studies are here. The Strategic level students have been given a company in the fashion retail industry called Rio. CIMA released the Strategic Case Study pre-seen material last week and it’s available in full here. A reminder that SCS exam sittings begin on…
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My CIMA F2 Study Plan
Now Christmas and the New Year celebrations are out of the way I am plan to tackle the F2 paper next. With this in mind I have created a study plan that will take up all the way up to the F2 Advanced Financial Reporting paper in March 2016. I have given myself 10 weeks…
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Peaking at the right time
I’ve sat many exams with varying degrees of success. I’ve gone into exam halls knowing I will fail the exam before I even sat it while other exams I’ve left knowing I’ve breezed it. You should be looking to peak at the right time and put the hours of study in that will give you belief…
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CIMA P1 Exam and Study Tips
CIMA P1 Study Text The foundation of your CIMA P1 studies will be from the study text you choose, whether it’s BPP, Kaplan or other learning providers like Astranti or Acorn. The study text you choose should be suitable for your learning. I like to use a mixture of the Kaplan and Astranti study texts.…
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Big Data: a hot CIMA topic
When looking at the 2010 CIMA study texts you will find very little on the subject of Big Data. But it seems to be a hot topic these days and I am sure the CIMA examiner will look to squeeze in a question on Big Data whenever they can. The use of Big Data is becoming vital…
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CIMA Exams – one at a time?
The new CIMA 2015 syllabus, in my eyes, has changed dramatically when you consider the examination structure. The objective tests can be scheduled at any time and have been reduced to 90 minutes with several smaller questions covering the whole syllabus. It’s a welcome relief not to have face the 180 minutes hand written exams…
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Traditional Study Materials v Online Materials
When I started my CIMA studies last year I automatically purchased all of the study materials from Kaplan without giving it much thought. I ordered the E1 and F1 books – so the study text, exam questions kit and revision guide – and was generally pleased with them in terms of content. Especially the exam questions…
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