BPP Study Skills presentation
Richard Gibbon BA, FCA
• BPP International
• Operations Director
Background to BPP Professional Education
• Launched in 1976,
• Listed on the Stock Exchange in 1986
• BPP has grown to embrace exam and non-exam
based training for various other professions
including tax, financial services, human
resources, marketing, and law.
Our breadth of courses
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Financial Services
Accountancy & Tax
Law
SII
IMC
IFA
IAQ
CertFP
CFA
CFQ
ICAEW
ICAS
ACCA
CIMA
AAT
ATT
CTA
Insolvency (JIEB, CPI)
GDL
LPC
BVC
PSC
•Financial Modelling
•Introduction to
Accounts
•Bond Markets
•Understanding Options
•Risk Management
•IFRS Advanced
•Valuation Techniques
•Project Finance
•Money Laundering
•Tax and Financial
•Reporting Updates
Human Resources
Other
Marketing (CIM)
CIPD
BIFM
•Company Commercial
•Criminal
•Insolvency
•Employment
•Finance for Lawyers
•City & Finance Markets
•Law Enforcement
Actuarial (FIA,FFA,
FSA,FCAS)
•Dealing with difficult
staff
•Managing Dismissal
•Successful interview
techniques
•Finance for non-Finance
Professional
Business
Communication
Personnel & People
Management
Commercial Skills
•Effective Presentation Skills
•Successful Teams
•Presenting Effective Proposals
•HR for New HR Managers
•Writing Effective Proposals
•Managing & Motivating People
•Managing the Client
Relationship
•Coaching
•Practical Networking
•Negotiating Skills
Strategy &
Leadership
•Developing Leadership Skills
•Coaching
•Understanding Personality
•Successful Teams
BPP Countries
UK: 16 cities
Internationally:
18 cities in
12 countries
BPP Resources
• Education department in London
• Each subject manager specialises in one subject
only
• Regular meetings with examiner
• ACCA approved material reviewed by the
examiner
BPP Courses
• Introductory and revision courses
• Course notes developed by the specialist
subject manager
• Guidance and plans for tutors
• All BPP tutors are inter-changeable
BPP Learning Media
• Study text
• Practice and revision kit
• Pass cards
• i-Pass
• i-Learn
• Success CD
Mock debrief
Mock debrief
Pass rates
P7
P5
P4
P3
P2
P1
F9
F8
F7
F6
F5
F4
F3
F2
F1
BPP International
Pass Rates
ACCA Pass Rates
0%
20%
40%
60%
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100%
Who am I?
Erica Gibbon BA, FCA
• BPP International
• Projects Director
Experiencing your success
Putting success
into your
future
Getting to Success
• Time
• Tool Kit
• Organisation
• Motivation
• Confidence
• Success
• Vision
ACCA Syllabus
Structure
• Fundamentals level – Knowledge Module
• Fundamentals level – Skills Module
• Professional level – Essentials Module
• Professional level – Options Module
ACCA Syllabus Fundamentals Level
Knowledge Module
• F1 Accountant in Business (AB)
• F2 Management Accounting (MA)
• F3 Financial Accounting (FA)
ACCA Syllabus Fundamentals Level
Skills Module
• F4 Corporate and Business Law (CL) *
• F5 Performance Management (PM)
• F6 Taxation (TX) *
• F7 Financial Reporting (FR)
• F8 Audit and Assurance (AA)
• F9 Financial Management (FM)
* Malta variant
ACCA Syllabus Professional Level
Essentials Module
• P1 Professional Accountant (PA)
• P2 Corporate Reporting (CR)
• P3 Business Analysis (BA)
ACCA Syllabus Professional Level
Options Module
• P4 Advanced Financial Management (AFM)
• P5 Advanced Performance Management (APM)
• P6 Advanced Taxation (AT) *
• P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA)
* Malta variant
Expectancy Theory
Victor Vroom
VALENCE
EXPECTANCY
Strength of a person’s
preference for a
certain outcome
Expectation that
behaviour will result
in the desired
outcome
X
FORCE
=
Or strength of
motivation to do
something
Tuckman - Forming
Why are we here?
Who is in charge?
What are the
rules?
Tuckman - Storming
No, I am boss
I am boss
You boss!
Huh!
Tuckman - Norming
So, we
agree that I
give orders.
And I
paint after
drilling.
And I hold
things to keep
it steady.
Tuckman - Performing
Tuckman - Dorming
OK,
time to
go.
No, don’t go!
We’ll miss
you.