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Advanced Financial Management (AFM)

Advanced Performance Management (APM)

Advanced Taxation (ATX)*

Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA)

Section A

• One 50-mark case study

• Includes four professional skills marks

• Candidates are required to produce a business document such as a report or briefing paper for the board

• The case study will focus on a range of issues from at least two syllabus sections from A–E

• One 50-mark case study

• Includes four professional skills marks

• The case study will focus on a range of issues from across syllabus areas A, C and D

• Two compulsory case study questions

• Question 1 has 35 marks including four professional skills marks

• Question 2 has 25 marks

• There will be five ethics marks available within Section A

• One 50-mark case study

• Includes four professional skills marks

• The case study will focus on a range of issues across syllabus areas A–D

Section B

• Two compulsory 25-mark questions

• Both questions will be scenario-based and contain a combination of calculation and narrative marks

• Two compulsory 25-mark questions

• Both questions will be scenario-based

• One Section B question will focus on syllabus area E

• The other Section B question can test any syllabus area

• Two compulsory 20-mark questions

• Questions will cover both business and personal tax issues

• Questions will contain a combination of calculation and narrative marks

• Two compulsory 25-mark questions

• Both questions based on short scenarios

• One question will focus on syllabus area E

• The other Section B question can be drawn from any other syllabus area including areas A, B, C, D, and F

• Current issues (syllabus area G) may be examined in Section A or B as appropriate

Link to ACCA Syllabus and Study Guide

Advanced Financial Management (AFM)

Advanced Performance Management (APM)

Advanced Taxation (ATX)**

Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA)**