P2 - Performance Management

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Study Text

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Price: £35 (Printed Text)
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ISBN: 9780751794823 (Printed Text)
          9780751796063 (eBook)

Valid for: exams until May 2012

Description: The P2 Study Text provides comprehensive coverage of the complete P2 syllabus. It features step-by-step guides to such topics as limiting factor analysis, multiproduct breakeven analysis and budgeting. Each chapter includes numerous simple and comprehensive examples of how to apply various techniques. Areas that students traditionally find difficult – such as linear programing and transfer pricing – are dealt with in dedicated chapters that break these topics down into manageable sections and give students plenty of opportunities to practise techniques.


Practice and Revision Kit

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Price: £18 (Printed Text)
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ISBN: 9781445380940 (Printed Text)
          9781445376509 (eBook)

Valid for: exams until November 30, 2012

Description: The CIMA P2 Practice and Revision Kit is an excellent revision tool as it contains many past exam questions for you to test your knowledge of each syllabus area. The detailed solutions are supplemented by top tips on how to answer these questions and an indication of where you might pick up easy marks. You can test your knowledge and exam technique further by using the three mock exams at the end of the Practice and Revision Kit, all of which have detailed solutions and guidance on how to approach the questions. With further guidance on how to revise for Paper P2 as well as suggestions on how to build your own exams using the questions provided, the CIMA P2 Practice and Revision Kit is an essential tool for the revision phase of your studies.  


Passcard

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Price: £10 (Printed Text)
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ISBN: 9780751795912 (Printed Text)
          9780751796186 (eBook)

Valid for: exams until May 2012

Description: The P2 Passcards present all the key syllabus areas in a visual format, designed to kick-start your memory. Based on the comprehensive Study Text, Passcards contain easyto- follow diagrams and examples, together with definitions of key terms.


Interactive Passcards

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Price: £30
                                               
ISBN: 9780751795820
          
Valid for: exams until May 2012        

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.


i-Pass CD ROM*

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Price: £30 
         
ISBN: 9780751796001 
         
Valid for: exams until May 2012              

Description: CIMA Paper P2 i-Pass is a computer-based testing tool. It is ideal for revision and testing your knowledge of the topics covered by Paper P2 Performance Management. You can use the ‘test as you learn’ option to test yourself on specific areas or use the ‘syllabus test’ option to generate a test which covers topics from across the P2 syllabus. The topics you can test yourself on follow the same running order as the BPP CIMA P2 Study Text chapters and each question includes clear and concise feedback. When you have finished a test you are given immediate feedback on how well you performed, making it a perfect self-assessment tool.


Success CD

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Price: £16 
         
ISBN: 9780751788853
         
Valid for: exams until November 30, 2012

Description: The CIMA Paper P2 audio Success CD is ideal for reinforcing your knowledge on the key topics examined in CIMA Paper P2 Performance Management. You can listen to it at home or on the move and the CD focuses on the key examinable areas. The CD tracks follow the same running order as the CIMA P2 Study Text chapters and you can pick and choose which areas you want to revise. As well as the technical content you will also hear tips on exam technique from a BPP Tutor along with other important details, such as the structure and form of the exam.

 

Paper P2 – Performance Management is the second paper in the Performance pillar.  It builds on Paper P1 knowledge as well as introducing such new topics as transfer pricing.  The paper focuses on the ability to discuss and evaluate results as well as use techniques to calculate the numbers.

The syllabus is concerned with

  • Analysis and discussion of pricing and product decisions
  • Evaluation of techniques used to in cost planning and analysis for competitive advantage
  • Evaluation of performance using budgets and discussion of issues in using budgets for this purpose
  • Discussion of how to measure performance of responsibility centres and evaluation of the usefulness of these techniques