Well done Clare

Thumbs up to our friend Clare Finch whose book A Student’s Guide to International Financial Reporting Standards has now become recommended additional reading for ACCA students! Not before time say - lets watch as the other bodies follows suit.

A quick review shows why this book is an ESSENTIAL for all students sitting accountancy exams to international financial reporting standards.

Read the full review here.

Well done Clare, and for those who you who haven’t got a copy yet follow this link to Amazon.

From Start to Finish!

In this article, Steve Collings interviews Annette Smyth (Bluewednesday on the AccountancyStudents forums) and asks about her experience in completing AAT, starting ACCA and successfully gaining her membership status of ACCA. 

You work in Practice for Bob Collyer and Co., what are your main duties?

My main duties are compiling the limited company accounts and related tax returns but I get involved with tax calculations, bookkeeping, VAT returns, research on accounting treatments, self assessment tax returns – the list goes on!  That’s the advantage of working for a small practice, you get involved with everything, as the only things…

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What is Fear?

In her first article for AccountancyStudents, ACCA qualified Neuro-Linguistics Practitioner, Niki Watkins, outlines a major issue for students – the issue of ‘fear’. This article is particularly relevant to students who are tackling subjects which they are not particularly comfortable with or students who suffer from nervousness in the lead up to an exam.

People have many different fears….fear of death, fear of public speaking and fear of failure to name just a few, however we are born with only two fears; the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises, all other fears in our lives are learnt.

AccountancyStudents Seminars

At AccountancyStudents we are always looking at ways to help you in your studies. We have teamed up with Nicola Watkins who is an ACCA Qualified Accountant and Neuro-Linguistics Practitioner to develop some seminars to help students through their exams.

Steve and Nicola will be presenting the seminars in the coming months throughout the country.  During the seminars, Steve will offer help and advice with Accounting and Auditing Standards and how to deal with the more complex accounting and auditing standards and consolidation techniques. Nicola will talk to you about how to deal with exam stress, fear and deal with…