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Study Text
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Price: £35 (Printed Text)
£21 (eBook -
15% print allowance)
ISBN: 9780751794779 (Printed Text)
9780751796049 (eBook)
Valid for: exams until May
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Description: The E3 Study Text provides you
with comprehensive coverage of the principles of business strategy
and how they can be applied to design and implement enterprise
strategies. The Study Text also offers a range of short case
studies which illustrate how business strategy ideas are applied in
the real world.
In the E3 exam, your ability to apply knowledge to a scenario is
as important as pure knowledge, but it is still crucial to have a
sound understanding of the key terms and ideas. The ‘key terms'
featured in the text will help you identify these key terms, while
the ‘section summaries’ provide a convenient overview of each
section of the text.
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Practice and Revision Kit
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Price: £18 (Printed Text)
£10.80
(eBook - 15% print allowance)
ISBN: 9781445380896 (Printed Text)
9781445376455 (eBook)
Valid for: exams until November 30, 2012 |
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Description: Candidates often find
business strategy questions particularly difficult, since there is
rarely a single correct solution, nor any standard template that
can be learned to shape an answer.
The Practice and Revision Kit provides a number
of exam-style questions to provide valuable practice in tackling
the scenario-based questions you should expect to find in the E3
exam. The answer guidance in the Kit highlights the models and
ideas you should use to help answer questions, but also reminds you
that it is applying knowledge to the specific context of the
question scenario that earns marks, rather than simply reciting
theories.
The Practice and Revision Kit also includes a
selection of questions which combine pre-seen and unseen material
to reflect the style of questions you will face in Section A of
your E3 exam.
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Passcard
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Price: £10 (Printed Text)
£6 (eBook -
15% print allowance)
ISBN: 9780751795868 (Printed Text)
9780751796131 (eBook)
Valid for: exams until May
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Description: The Passcards are prepared to
reflect the structure and content of the Study Text very closely.
They summarise the essential knowledge you need to pass the
examination, and use a range of diagrams and visual cues to aid
recollection of key ideas.
Although the E3 exam requires you to apply your knowledge to
specific case study scenarios, there are still a number of models
and aspects of theory you can use as the basis for your answers.
These Passcards provide you with a summary of these models which
you can then use 'pegs' to hang your answers on.
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Interactive Passcards
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Price: £30
ISBN: 9780751795776
Valid for: exams until May
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Description: We’ve taken nuggets of
interactive e-material and the Study Text, linked them into an
on-screen interactive version of our hugely successful Passcards,
added audio tutorials and lots of testing, to create a truly
interactive, value-adding study aid. Recap your knowledge from
studying a chapter of the BPP Learning Media Study Text by working
through the corresponding Interactive Passcards chapter. Can you
recall what you’ve learned? Browse through the chapter summary and
attempt the questions at the end of the Interactive Passcards
chapter.
In the run up to your exam, use
Interactive Passcards to revise the key examinable topics. Use the
audio tutorials to remind yourself of what’s important and work
through the interactive ematerial that covers your weak areas.
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i-Pass CD ROM*
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Price: £30
ISBN: 9780751795950
Valid for: exams until May
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Description: The questions in your E3 exam will
be discussion questions rather than objective test questions.
Nevertheless, answering objective test questions is a good way to
revise the wide range of theoretical knowledge that you will have
to acquire to pass this exam.
The E3 i-Pass disc has been prepared to help you cover the
fundamental concepts and aspects of theoretical knowledge you will
need for the exam. The emphasis is on achieving speed and accuracy
of recall, so that you have the theories at your fingertips when
you sit your exams, and can then apply them to discuss the relevant
issues arising in any question.
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Success CD
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Price: £16
ISBN: 9780751788792
Valid for: exams until November 30,
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Description: The Success CD is an excellent aid
to revision, which can be used on occasions that would otherwise
represent idle time, such as the daily commute. The emphasis is on
providing an overview of important topics, such as evaluating an
organisation’s strategic options, and considering how it can
implement its chosen strategies.
This product is designed to supplement
more traditional forms of study, and is particularly useful to
students of E3, since it provides simple accounts of the
strategy-related ideas that candidates often have difficulty in
articulating.
The CD includes tips from an
experienced tutor about how to approach the paper and what the
examiner is looking for, while also highlighting some of the
pitfalls which can cause students to do badly in this exam.
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Paper E3 'Enterprise Strategy' is a wide-ranging exam that
includes aspects of strategic analysis, choice and implementation.
To pass, candidates need both technical knowledge and the ability
to apply their knowledge to specific scenarios.
The syllabus is split into four areas:
- Interacting with the Competitive Environment (20%)
- Change Management (20%)
- Evaluation of Strategic Options (30%)
- Implementation of Strategic Plans (30%)
The first section explores the impact and influence of an
organisation’s environment on its strategy. An organisation needs
to take account of its environmental context as well as its own
internal capabilities when assessing the strategic options
available to it. Having identified these options, it then has to
evaluate them to decide which is the most appropriate to
pursue.
The E3 syllabus recognises that implementing strategic plans
involves managing change, and 20% of the syllabus is now devoted to
issues involved in managing the change process. Change Management
has not previously been examined at Strategic Level in the CIMA
exams.
The final section of the syllabus looks at the ways
organisations control and measure the performance of the strategies
they have implemented.