BPP Study Skills presentation Richard Gibbon BA FCA

BPP Study Skills presentation Richard Gibbon BA, FCA • BPP International • Operations Director

Background to BPP Professional Education • Launched in 1976, • Listed on the Stock Exchange in 1986 • BPP has grown to embrace exam and nonexam based training for various other professions including tax, financial services, human resources, marketing, and law.

Our breadth of courses Q U A L I F I C A T I O N C P D P E R S O N A L E X C E L L E N C E Financial Services Accountancy & Tax Law SII IMC IFA IAQ Cert. FP CFA CFQ ICAEW ICAS ACCA CIMA AAT ATT CTA Insolvency (JIEB, CPI) GDL LPC BVC PSC • Financial Modelling • Introduction to Accounts • Bond Markets • Understanding Options • Risk Management • IFRS Advanced • Valuation Techniques • Project Finance • Money Laundering • Tax and Financial • Reporting Updates Personnel & People Management • Effective Presentation Skills • Successful Teams • Presenting Effective Proposals • HR for New HR Managers • Managing & Motivating People • Coaching Other Marketing (CIM) CIPD BIFM • Company Commercial • Criminal • Insolvency • Employment • Finance for Lawyers • City & Finance Markets • Law Enforcement Business Communication • Writing Effective Proposals Human Resources Actuarial (FIA, FFA, FSA, FCAS) • Dealing with difficult staff • Managing Dismissal • Successful interview techniques • Finance for non-Finance Professional Commercial Skills • Negotiating Skills • Managing the Client Relationship • Practical Networking Strategy & Leadership • Developing Leadership Skills • Coaching • Understanding Personality • Successful Teams

BPP Countries UK: 16 cities Internationally: 18 cities in 12 countries

BPP Resources • Education department in London • Each subject manager specialises in one subject only • Regular meetings with examiner • ACCA approved material reviewed by the examiner

BPP Courses • Introductory and revision courses • Course notes developed by the specialist subject manager • Guidance and plans for tutors • All BPP tutors are inter-changeable

BPP Learning Media • Study text • Practice and revision kit • Pass cards • i-Pass • i-Learn • Success CD

Mock debrief

Mock debrief

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Who am I? Erica Gibbon BA, FCA • BPP International • Projects Director

Experiencing your success Putting success into your future

Getting to Success • Time • Tool Kit • Organisation • Motivation • Confidence • Success • Vision

ACCA Syllabus Structure • Fundamentals level – Knowledge Module • Fundamentals level – Skills Module • Professional level – Essentials Module • Professional level – Options Module

ACCA Syllabus Fundamentals Level Knowledge Module • F 1 Accountant in Business (AB) • F 2 Management Accounting (MA) • F 3 Financial Accounting (FA)

ACCA Syllabus Fundamentals Level Skills Module • F 4 Corporate and Business Law (CL) * • F 5 Performance Management (PM) • F 6 Taxation (TX) * • F 7 Financial Reporting (FR) • F 8 Audit and Assurance (AA) • F 9 Financial Management (FM) * Malta variant

ACCA Syllabus Professional Level Essentials Module • P 1 Professional Accountant (PA) • P 2 Corporate Reporting (CR) • P 3 Business Analysis (BA)

ACCA Syllabus Professional Level Options Module • P 4 Advanced Financial Management (AFM) • P 5 Advanced Performance Management (APM) • P 6 Advanced Taxation (AT) * • P 7 Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA) * Malta variant

Expectancy Theory Victor Vroom VALENCE EXPECTANCY Strength of a person’s preference for a certain outcome Expectation that behaviour will result in the desired outcome X FORCE = Or strength of motivation to do something

Tuckman - Forming Why are we here? Who is in charge? What are the rules?

Tuckman - Storming No, I am boss You boss! Huh!

Tuckman - Norming So, we agree that I give orders. And I hold things to keep it steady. And I paint after drilling.

Tuckman - Performing

Tuckman - Dorming OK, time to go. No, don’t go! We’ll miss you.