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P3 - Performance Strategy

Study Text

Price: £35 (Printed Text)
£21 (eBook - 15% print allowance)

ISBN: 9780751794830 (Printed Text)
9780751796070 (eBook)

Valid for: exams until May 2012

Description: The Study Text provides all you need to know for P3. It gives many examples of the strategic and operational risks organisations face when they try to fulfil their objectives. It explains the frameworks organisations use for controlling risks. It demonstrates the importance of key elements of control systems including corporate governance, ethics support, control procedures and internal audit.

Practice and Revision Kit

Price: £18 (Printed Text)
£10.80 (eBook - 15% print allowance)

ISBN: 9781445380957 (Printed Text)
9781445376516 (eBook)

Valid for: exams until November 30, 2012

Description: The P3 Practice and Revision Kit contains invaluable guidance on how to tackle the exam. It focuses on what you should look for in questions on different syllabus areas and what question requirements are asking you to do. The questions the Practice and Revision Kit provides enable you to put these skills into practice, as they reflect the types of scenario, question requirements and breadth of coverage that we expect to see in the exam. The Practice and Revision Kit includes Section A questions in the same format as you will see in the exam, questions based on scenarios that appear in all three Strategic level Kits.

Passcard

Price: £10 (Printed Text)
£6 (eBook - 15% print allowance)

ISBN: 9780751795929 (Printed Text)
9780751796193 (eBook)

Valid for: exams until May 2012

Description: The P3 Passcards highlight the key risks organisations face, and illustrate the most important elements of risk management and control systems. They also summarise the key techniques for dealing with financial risks and the factors that influence information systems and risks.

Interactive Passcards

Price: £30

ISBN: 9780751795837

Valid for: exams until May 2012

Description: We’ve taken nuggets of 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 provides enable you to put these skills into practice, as they reflect the types of scenario, question requirements and breadth of coverage that we expect to see in the exam. The Practice and Revision Kit includes Section A questions in the same format as you will see in the exam, questions based on scenarios that appear in all three Strategic level Kits.

i-Pass CD ROM*

Price: £30

ISBN: 9780751796018

Valid for: exams until May 2012

Description: The P3 i-Pass tests whether you know the syllabus well enough and shows you how to analyse questions. The technical questions verify whether you do have the knowledge foundations necessary to produce good exam answers. There are a lot of questions on basic foreign currency calculations, which is an area that we know students find tricky.

Success CD

Price: £16

ISBN: 9780751788860

Valid for: exams until November 30, 2012

Description: The P3 Success CD highlights the topics you must understand to pass the exam. Each session discusses key aspects of the syllabus and explains how the material is likely to be examined. A logical, step-by-step approach is taken to help simplify potentially tricky areas, such as the management of exchange rate risk. A tutor outlines the skills you'll be expected to demonstrate, and explains how to make sure you have these skills. Add audio to your range of study tools - get the P3 Success CD today!

The P3 Performance Strategy exam covers how organisations respond to risks through systems and controls. The syllabus emphasises the wide-ranging risks organisations face, and particularly financial and information risks, because of the severe consequences these can have.

It includes the methods organisations use to reduce risks, including:

Management and accounting systems
Corporate governance
Control environment and procedures
Internal audit

Key skills are:

Recognising risks
Recommending appropriate actions to counter those risks.

The syllabus also requires appreciation of how risks and control systems link with the strategies the organisation pursues.