Extract from ACCA Syllabus:
Paper
1.1 Preparing
Financial Statements
(UK, but also useful
for IAS)
1.2 Financial
Information for
Management
1.3 Managing People
2.1 Information
Systems
2.2 Corporate and
Business Law (UK)
2.3 Business
Taxation (UK)
2.4 Financial
Management and
Control
2.5 Financial
Reporting (UK, IAS)
2.6 Audit and
Internal Review
3.1 Audit and
Assurance Services
3.2 Advanced
Taxation (UK)
Recommended reading *
1) F Wood and A Sangster Business Accounting 1 (8th Edition) Pitman ISBN
0273637428 (excluding chapters 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45 and 47) plus chapters
4, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 19 and 20 of Business Accounting 2 (8th Edition) Pitman ISBN
0273637436
2) A Millichamp Foundation Accounting (5th Edition) Letts Publishers ISBN
1858053129 (excluding chapters 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 28 and 29)
1) G Bancroft, G O’Sullivan Quantitative Methods for Accounting and Business
Studies (3rd Edition) McGraw Hill ISBN 0077077318
2) C Drury Management and Cost Accounting (5th Edition) International Thomson
Business Press ISBN 1861525362.
1) Mullins L J Management and Organisational Behaviour (5th Edition) Pitman ISBN
0273635522
2) Beardwell I and Holden L Human Resource Management – A Contemporary
Perspective (2nd Edition) Pitman ISBN 0273622307
3) Graham H T and Bennett R Human Resource Management (9th Edition) Financial
Times Pitman Publishing ISBN 0273634011
4) Handy C Understanding Organisations (4th Edition) Penguin ISBN 014056038
1) Don Yeates and James Cadle Project Management for Information Systems (2nd
Edition) Pitman Publishing ISBN 0273620193 Relevant chapters 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13
2) Steve Skidmore Introducing Systems Analysis (2nd Edition) Macmillan ISBN
0333721411 Relevant chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
3) Steve Skidmore Introducing Systems Design (2nd Edition) Macmillan ISBN
0333721403 Relevant chapters 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10
1) Kelly D & Holmes A Business Law (3rd Edition) Cavendish ISBN 1859414699 covers
all aspects of the syllabus
2) Smith K & Keenan D Advanced Business Law (10th Edition) Pitman ISBN
273627058, covers contract, employment, company and agency law
3) Smith K & Keenan D Company Law for Students (11th Edition) Pitman ISBN
0273638343, covers the company law in more detail
1) A Homer and R Burrows Tolley’s Tax Guide Tolley Publishing ISBN 1860128319
2) A Melville Taxation Prentice Hall ISBN 0 273 655522-1
1) C Drury Management and Cost Accounting (5th Edition) International Thomson
Business Press ISBN 1861525362
2) E J McLaney Business Finance: Theory and Practice FT Prentice Hall ISBN
0273646362
1) Davies, Patterson and Wilson UK and International GAAP Butterworths
2) Wild and Creighton GAAP 2000 UK Financial Reporting and Accounting Accountancy
Books ISBN 0754503887
None *
None *
1) Simon Philip Kelly’s Financial Planning for the Individual Gee ISBN 1860890385
2) John Rayer RSM Robson Rhodes Personal Financial Planning Manual Tolley ISBN
0406914796
3) David Wicks The Financial Adviser’s Factbook Gee ISBN 1860890539
4) Homer & Burrows Taxwise Workbook I Tolleys ISBN 0754507343
5) Homer, Burrows & Gravestock Taxwise Workbook II Tolleys ISBN 0754507351
6) Welfare Benefits Handbook CPAG ISBN 1901698262
7) Kate Tonge Social Security & State Benefits: A Practical Guide Tolleys ISBN
0754510115
8) McRae Personal Financial Planning Chapman & Hall ISBN 0412626608
9) Simon McKie Estate Planning Tolleys ISBN 0754507246
10) Chris Marshall Life Assurance & Pensions Handbook Taxbriefs ISBN 1902824156
11) Social Security Benefit Rates (GL23) Available free from the Benefits Agency
12) A Guide to Benefits (MG1) Available free from the Benefits Agency
3.3 Performance
Management
3.4 Business
Information
Management
3.5 Strategic
Business Planning
and Development
3.6 Advanced
Corporate Reporting
(UK, IAS)
3.7 Strategic
Financial
Management
1) C Drury Management and Cost Accounting (5th Edition) International Thomson
Business Press ISBN 1861525362
2) C Emmanuel, D Otley Accounting for Management Control Chapman and Hall ISBN
1861522118
3) M W E Glautier and B Underdown Accounting Theory and Practice Pitman ISBN
027362444X
4) J Sizer An Insight into Management Accounting Penguin Books ISBN 0140091262
1) Kenneth Laudon and Jane Laudon Management Information Systems (6th Edition)
Prentice Hall ISBN 0130156825
2) James O’Brien Introduction to Information Systems (9th Edition) McGraw-Hill ISBN
0071169733
3) Kenneth Laudon and Jane Laudon Essentials of Management Information Systems
(3rd Edition) Prentice Hall ISBN 0130115061
1) Johnson and Scholes Exploring Corporate Strategy (5th edition) Prentice Hall Europe
ISBN 0130807397
2) Finlay Strategic Management An Introduction to Business and Corporate Strategy
Financial Times Prentice Hall ISBN 0201398273
3) Wilson and Gilligan Strategic Marketing Management: Planning, Implementation
and Control (2nd edition) Butterworth-Heinemann ISBN 075062244X
4) Warren Keegan Global Marketing Management Prentice Hall (6th edition) ISBN
0139030239
None * (also see books recommended for paper 2.5)
1) R H Pike, C W Neale Corporate Finance and Investment Prentice Hall ISBN
0130812706
2) I Demirag, S Goddard Financial Management for International Business McGraw
Hill ISBN 0077078691
3) J Stern, D Chew (eds) The Revolution in Corporate Finance Blackwell ISBN
0631185542
* in addition to AT Foulks Lynch (ACCA’s official publisher), ATC, BPP and FTC materials.