There is a balance of Theory and Numerical Questions in this paper....can any one advice how to start studies???any importants...or any other useful advices....Plz post ur suggesstions!!!

Come on....anyone out there....any advices????

hey ill be appearing in F5 myself in this june along with F4...well for F5 u need to have strong concepts as the examiner usually asks for the implication of various techniques like ABC ,throughput etc...as far as the numerics are concerned they are also of utmost importance and obviously cannot be neglected...so ill advice u to start studying...do the book n then solve as many questions as u can because practice is the key to success!!!

I did F5 recently and there was 70% written bit and 30% calculations.

I cleared ths paper last time. what i will suggest that your concepts should be crystal clear. this paper includes theory n computational portion. do concentrate on the concepts becuase if your concepts are clear u can attempt any kind of questions. ppl do think tht ths subjct is similar to P7 of cat but there iz gr8 difference btwn the 2. the examiner cn check any cncpt as in r paer v wr mstly chckd n the concpts f relevnt costing. Do kits of bpp n ftc. THS SUBJCT REQUIRES COMMAND ON THEORY N CNCPTS.

Thankyou everyone

What I want to know furhter is that there are certain topics which are almost definetly examined....any idea or info what are those????

Hi

Follwoing are the topics that are considered important:

Decision-making techniques - linear programming, relevant costing, pricing, risk & uncertainty
Budgeting - possibly focusing on conflict between techniques such as incremental or ZBB
Performance measurement and control: ROI/RI, transfer pricing, financial and non-financial measures
Variance analysis
Management accounting techniques: target/lifecycle costing

I found this info on one website so just posted here, its not in my opinion.

Regards,
Ayesha.

I did F5 recently and there was 70% written bit and 30% calculations.

well what i can suggest is that variances are very important. when we were giving papers v assumed that it will contain important topics as well but u can check it out that the paper was really unexpected. the ratios were also only upto G.P. so kindly dnt expct anything as imprtant an cvr the whole sylabuss. as there is no set pattern of thus paer like F7

I totally agree with sab

i also agree