ACCA Past Exam Papers

I sometimes get lost finding the link to download ACCA past exam papers due to the long hierarchy of accaglobal web site and thus I decided to post the links to those locations in this post for easir access.

The Previous ACCA Qualification (Until June 2007 Exams)

Paper 1.1
Paper 1.2
Paper 1.3

Paper 2.1
Paper 2.2
Paper 2.3
Paper 2.4
Paper 2.5
Paper 2.6

Paper 3.1
Paper 3.2
Paper 3.3
Paper 3.4
Paper 3.5
Paper 3.6
Paper 3.7


The New ACCA Qualification (Starting From Dec 2007 Exams )

F1 Accountant in Business

F2 Management Accounting

F3 Financial Accounting
F4 Corporate and Business Law
F5 Performance Management
F6 Taxation
F7 Financial Reporting
F8 Audit and Assurance
F9 Financial Management

P1 Professional Accountant
P2 Corporate Reporting
P3 Business Analysis
P4 Advanced Financial Management
P5 Advanced Performance Management
P6 Advanced Taxation
P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance

Roller Skating

Beginner Guide: You might find this useful.

Tips and Tricks: inlineonline, inlinewarehouse , skatescool, and rollerblading tips

Skating Mistakes: Top ten skating mistakes

Fitness Facts: Some info from rollerblade.

Wiki: Some facts from wiki about roller skating.

Animated Skate Lessons: You can find about it in the left panel of their site.

How Tos : This link basically consists of everything you need to know about rollerskating; how to clean roller blades, how to jump on inline-skates etc.

Shopping: Lots and lots of resources that you can purchase a pair of skates from. You sure can google it.

Where to Skate: As far as i know of, East Coast Park is by far the best place for the sport. It provides you the longest horizontal path for the skater. But if you prefer a more adventurous experience, you can opt for Yishun Park. If you are the beginner, you can practise at the base area of the park which is a circular round and horizontal. If you are no longer a novice, the park has got two uphill slopes, of which one is a gentler slope and the other not so gentle one, for you to try your balancing act. You should not try the slopes if you are not skilled enough because it is risky. You should start with horizontal ground at the entrace of the park. I suggest you should be fully equiped with protected gear if you are gonna try there.

Learning Mandarin

I have been learning how to speak Mandarin in the past few months and I would like to share my experience regarding this. At first I planned to join some Mandarin Speaking Classes conducting at my neighbourhood community centre. By the way I am blogging from Singapore. But I was told by a friend that he faced some problems trying to understand the tearcher's English. Thus I decided to learn it on my own using CD-ROM course for Mandarin and I bought some CDs from Kinokuniya BookStore which I think will be suitable for me. The first few brands did not really work on someone like me who do not have prior knowledge about the language. We (the cds and me) just did not click each other.

But the current one I am using has been of great help to my Mandarin Learning Curve. The program started from basic and simple lessons to advanced ones in a very organized and detailed manner. The way it introduces the language to the user and the way it explans things are quite understandable. I think this is especially suitable for us who did not know abc about Mandarin. If you are interested in it, you can check it out here. I hope to hear your comments and opinion.

Happy Mandarin learning!


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AdSense Misery

I could not post more than 3 ads in this blog and was confused. With the help of a google search, here is the solution I found out in google's adsense help centre.

Aid for an ACCA F3 Student II

If you are a student accoutant currently studying ACCA F3 Financial Accouting, I hope this post has got something helpful for you. If you are an experienced accountant, well i guess the topic in this post will be something trivial to you.

When I first started learning about double-entry bookkeeping, I had a little trouble trying to decide whether accounting item should be in debit or credit. For example , if the business purchases a motor vehicle by cash , I know that the two accouting items are motor vehicle and cash, but I couldn't easily decide which is debit or which is credit.

So I tried to get a way to easily identify this and I got myself this easy way as follows.

************
****AID****
****EID****
************

That means if Asset Increases, it is Debit. Likewise, if Expense Increases, it is Debit.
Since we only have Assets, Liability, Capital, Income and Expenses, if the rest of them increases, it is a liability. Let's re-use the example above. If the business purchases a motor vehicle by cash, the two accounting items are motor vehicle and cash. In this case, we know that both a motor vehicle and cash are assets. We also know that motor vehicle increases, so it is debit(AID), but as for cash, it decreases and it is credit.

So we get ourselves as follows:
Dr Motor Vehicle 3000
Cr Cash 3000

Hope this helps you.