Study Materials
F6, the first of the ACCA tax papers, covers the fundamentals of all the main UK taxes. The exam paper is mainly computational and requires you to demonstrate that you can compute income tax, corporation tax, VAT, capital gains tax and national insurance.
The syllabus is wider than that of paper 2.3, the previous paper at this level. Paper 2.3 dealt with the taxation of businesses. Paper F6 deals with the taxation of individuals as well as with the taxation of businesses.
The examiner for this paper, David Harrowven, was the examiner for paper 2.3 for many years.
Study Text
Price: £30
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 45740
Our study text has been approved by the examiner. It covers the entire syllabus at just the right level. There is no more or less information than you need to know. As computations are the most important aspect of this paper, there are plenty of worked examples and questions throughout the text. The question and answer bank in the text consists of numerous exam standard questions and, so that you can see the format of the exam paper, the paper F6 pilot paper is included in its entirety at the end of the text.
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Practice and Revision Kit
Price: £16
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 46839
Practice, practice, practice. The key to passing paper F6 is to practise as many exam standard questions as possible. BPP Learning Media's practice and revision kit allows you to do just this. Most of our questions are exam standard, although some are preparation questions which ease you into the topic you are studying. Questions are grouped into topic areas so that you can easily identify those that cover particular areas. Our detailed solutions often provide top tips, advice on how to approach the question or advice on gaining easy marks. There is also a reference so that you know where the topics concerned are covered in the study text. Where a question is a past exam question we reproduce any relevant examiner comments for you.
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Passcards
Price: £10
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 46617
BPP Learning Media's passcards for Paper F6 are an ideal revision tool. The chapters in the passcards follow the same order as the chapters in the study text, but the passcards are not just a condensed book; each card has been individually designed to aid memory recall and clearly present the key facts that you must know. Our passcards are pocket-sized meaning that you can take them with you anywhere.
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i-Learn
Price: £40
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 44897
BPP Learning Media's interactive CD is less detailed than our study text. It will reinforce your understanding of key syllabus areas in a time-efficient manner. As with the study text, there are plenty of examples to practise to reinforce your understanding of what you are learning.
i-Pass
Price: £30
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 44910
The i-Pass CD for paper F6 is another fantastic revision tool. It contains lots of multiple choice style questions grouped into key syllabus areas. Practising these questions enables you to ensure that you have grasped the key facts that you must know. As the questions are short you can just try a few whenever you have a few moments to spare. This is one of the best ways of building up the core tax knowledge that you need. Feedback is provided with each answer on the CD so that, if necessary, you can see where you went wrong.
Success CD
Price: £15
Suitable for: Dec 2008 exams
ISBN: 978 07517 47713
BPP Learning Media produce a success CD which covers all the important knowledge that you need for Paper F6. This is another useful revision tool as you can listen to it when you are in the car, cooking dinner etc!