Table 2: NEW ACA QUALIFICATION SYLABUSES AND EXAM STRUCTURES For 2011 |
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| New style CBE and paper-based exam and syllabus changes | |
| New style CBE and paper-based exam and syllabus changes | |
| New style CBE and paper-based exam and syllabus changes | |
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| Syllabus changes to align better with Papers F2 and P5 | |
| Minor syllabus changes to re-align and make more coherent the underpinning of Paper P6 by Paper F6 | |
| To introduce more legal/regulatory information on financial reporting of groups | |
| To make more explicit areas included in examinable documents within the syllabus and remove some aspects of risk planning | |
| Introduction to Islamic finance added in relation to sources of finance, to keep syllabus relevant and up to date | |
| More emphasis on coverage of business risk in response to employer stakeholder survey findings | |
| More coverage of accounting treatment of SMEs, the circumstances in which consolidated accounts are required or exemptions and capital reconstructions | |
| Aspects of forecasting, budgeting, cost accounting and decision making, relevant to business analysis introduced, to provide more scope for a financial context within exam scenarios. Quality Section and performance aspects of HR management removed to Paper P5 to address overlaps | |
| Re-arrangement of syllabus and better re-alignment with Paper F9. No significant areas added but some removed to provide more coherence | |
| Syllabus developed to align better with Paper F5 and to reduce potential overlap with Paper P3, particularly in the Quality and performance management and measurement areas of HR | |
| Basic elements of IHT which are included in Paper F6 (UK) will be taken out of the Paper P6 (UK) syllabus, and the Paper P6 (UK) syllabus will concentrate exclusively on the more complex areas of IHT | |
| The internal audit area has been amended. Aspects of practice management, assignments and reporting have been removed | |