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Technical articles
- IAS 1, presentation of financial statements
- 11 Mar 2008
- Ellie Griffiths, education adviser at ACCA, describes the changes to IAS 1 in relation to presentation and terminology
- Multiple-choice questions
- 11 Mar 2008
- Ronnie Patton, examiner for Module A, outlines the best way to approach multiple-choice questions in the DipFM exams
- Effective report writing
- 19 Oct 2007
- Stewart Dickinson, subject coordinator for the Diploma in Financial Management, outlines the key elements of a report
- Measuring performance
- 27 Mar 2007
- Ronnie Patton, examiner for Module A, outlines the key topic of performance measurement
- Accounting for costs
- 30 Nov 2006
- Henry Lunt explains how to account for research and development costs
- Financial performance indicators
- 30 Nov 2006
- Philip Dunn reports on financial performance indicators
- Shareholder ratios
- 30 Nov 2006
- Considering risk versus shareholder interest can be a tricky business. Philip Dunn investigates financial statement analysis from an investor's perspective
- Going international
- 02 May 2006
- With effect from December 2006, changes are planned to the DipFM syllabus
- All in the name of motivation
- 02 May 2006
- Whether for team-building, confidence-boosting, leadership training or just as a way of getting a group to have fun together without drunkenness or infidelity, the motivation caper has become big business, as Richard Brass discovers
- Power to the people
- 28 Mar 2006
- Energy services company E.ON UK encourages its managers to take the Diploma in Financial Management
- Corporation tax
- 28 Mar 2006
- Danny Leiwy considers the finer details of corporation tax
- Widened involvement
- 28 Mar 2006
- Diploma holder Peter Ede studied for the DipFM so that he could contribute to more projects at work
- New qualification
- 28 Mar 2006
- News on the new ACCA qualification
- Direct to you
- 28 Mar 2006
- News on the launch of finance matters direct
- Easy as abc
- 24 Oct 2005
- For many manufacturing organisations, the most difficult aspect of calculating the cost of a product is the calculation of the overhead cost
- Group accounting
- 26 Oct 2004
- by Ronnie Patton, examiner for Module A
- An insider's guide to exam day
- 25 Oct 2004
- Essential advice on ensuring the lead-up to your exams runs smoothly and helpful tips for getting it right on the day
- Revision techniques
- 25 Oct 2004
- Pippa Riley provides advice on revision techniques to maximise your chances of passing the exams
- Exam success
- 25 Oct 2004
- We report on the DipFM students who achieved the highest aggregate marks on all four papers and the top
scoring candidates in the individual papers and projects
- Joint forces
- 19 Aug 2004
- Ronnie Patton writes about group accounting, part of the Interpretation of Financial Statements syllabus
- Unfair advantage
- 19 Aug 2004
- Stewart Dickinson explains the meaning of assessment offences and how to produce good work
- Online with ACCA
- 19 Aug 2004
- A guide to the online resources that ACCA offers on its global website
- Surveying students
- 19 Aug 2004
- We report on the findings of a recent survey of Diploma in Financial Management students and holders
- Performance measurement
- 19 May 2004
- Steve Jay discusses measuring performance using financial and non-financial indicators
- Exam technique
- 18 May 2004
- Pippa Riley provides advice on maximising your chances of passing the exams
- Good service?
- 02 Mar 2004
- Victoria Ashton reports on the findings of ACCA's student satisfaction survey
- Ratios - a place for everything?
- 02 Mar 2004
- Ronnie Patton, examiner for Module A, discusses the importance of putting ratios in context
- Financial performance indicators
- 13 Nov 2002
- Philip Dunn discusses financial performance indicators
- Log on to ACCA's online resources
- 12 Nov 2002
- www.accaglobal.com contains a great deal of useful information and keeps getting
bigger and better. The online resources will benefit all finance matters readers
whether they are new or experienced users of the website
- MBA Accreditation
- 12 Nov 2002
- ACCA is working hard to identify a range of MBA and postgraduate
courses which will provide you with the additional knowledge and skills required
in the world of finance, management and business
- The new DipFM format - where are we now?
- 12 Nov 2002
- Lesley Buick explains the new syllabus and new methods of assessment
- Details of C.Dip Worldwide Prizewinners December 2001
- 08 Nov 2002
- Susan Wallaces introduces two of the December 2001 Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance prizewinners
- Hitting the highlife in Canada
- 24 Jul 2002
- Lorna Muir reports on paper D2 Prizewinner Liz Hammond, who has
crossed the Atlantic to further her career, and cruised to top marks in the June 2001 Examination session
- UK and Ireland Prizewinners celebrate success
- 21 May 2002
- Lorna Muir introduces the December 2000 and June 2001 Diploma prizewinners
- Tackling DipFM projects
- 13 May 2002
- This article includes important details covering submission deadlines, presentation and ACCA's rules on cheating
and plagiarism.
- Café culture
- 13 May 2002
- Duncan Neill explains how he set up and ran his own successful café company and how the Diploma
helped him to acheive his goals.
- Tackling the DipFM projects
- 24 Feb 2002
- Pippa Riley, Range Manager for DipFM products at BPP, provides guidance on key features of the new projects
- Examiners' feedback - June 2001
- 15 Nov 2001
- Guidance for both unsuccessful and future candidates following the June 2001 examination session
- New scheme content
- 14 Nov 2001
- Pippa Riley explains the similarities and highlights the differences between the current and the new syllabi
- The new scheme explained
- 27 Jul 2001
- This article explains the new scheme in detail, and shows where it differs from the familiar format of CDipAF. It
also outlines the important issue of where current students stand when they are transferred onto the new scheme.
- ABC: too much activity and not enough costing?
- 03 Feb 2001
- What should worry our profession is that all the hype surrounding ABC may itself damage good financial management. Professor
Brian Rutherford writes.
- Fixed Asset Valuation: the ups and (more particularly) the downs
- 03 Feb 2001
- An examination of the basic approach to asset valuation introduced by FRS 11 and FRS 15
- The finance professional of the future
- 03 Nov 2000
- by Lisabeth Hristova, relevant to all papers
- When is a budget not a budget?
- 03 Nov 2000
- by Brian Rutherford, relevant to all papers
- What's it worth? A guide to valuation techniques
- 03 Nov 2000
- by Shirley Hume, relevant to all papers
- The ABC of overhead allocation
- 03 Nov 2000
- by Dan King, relevant to all papers
- Financial reporting in the 21st century
- 01 Jul 2000
- by John Davies, relevant to all papers
- Standard costing and fixed and flexed budgets
- 01 Jul 2000
- by Barrie Mitchinson, relevant to Paper D2
- Understanding the fundamental concepts
- 01 Apr 2000
- by Phil Todd, relevant to all papers
- Corporate strategy: the accountant's role
- 03 Jan 2000
- by Martin Webb, relevant to all papers
- Accounting for pension costs
- 03 Jan 2000
- by John Davies, relevant to all papers
- Moving towards the knowledge economy?
- 03 Jan 2000
- by Fiona Westwood, relevant to all papers
- Interpretation of financial statements - where to start?
- 03 Jan 2000
- by Michael Kealy
- Reporting company profit
- 01 Oct 1999
- by John Davies, relevant to all papers
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