Pod casts lead to exam success!

www.passacca.net produce free and paid for audio downloads to help ACCA students achieve exam success. These valuable learning resources helped many students secure a pass in the December 2008 exams. The professionally-produced, value for money content has been written by professionally qualified expert tutors, and helps students get the edge with their ACCA exam studies.

ACCA students who logged onto www.passacca.net found the content of the site extremely useful. The learning materials have been downloaded by students from all over the world from the UK to Australia.

Many students have found…

Finance Act 2008: Final Considerations

This article is the final article in the series which looks at the impact Finance Act 2008 will have on students studying taxation papers for May and June 2009 exams.

This final Finance Act 2008 article will look at:

• Capital Gains Tax changes;
• Inheritance Tax; and
• Residency and Domicile.

Capital Gains Tax

The annual CGT exemption for 2008/9 is £9,600 and is available to each individual, whether single, married or in a civil partnership.

A new ‘Entrepreneurs Relief’ is available for disposals taking place after 5 April 2008.  The effect of the relief…

Interactive Study Buddy System

AccountancyStudents promised you some additional resources in 2009, and we are on target to get these to you.

We are teaming up with the guys at passacca.net who are introducing a new ‘Study Buddy’ system which allows you to find a buddy to help you through the next set of exams. This can be a good way to help with your motivation, gain momentum, and improve your likelihood of passing.

Full details can be found on the www.passacca.net website.

ACCA Exam Results December 2008

So another sitting passes and another set of exam results are issued—where does all this time keep going to?

Congratulations to all those who passed their exams.  Special congratulations go to the new Affiliates who are now about to embark on the journey of hopefully reaping the rewards of their hard work over the past few years.  For those who failed, then dust yourself down and let’s get prepared for June 2009!

Some of you may already have got back to the grind of studying ready for the June 2009 examination session, others may be…

Finance Act 2008 - Administration

My previous article ‘An Insight to Tax Changes by Finance Act 2008’,  introduced the changes which Finance Act 2008 has made to major areas of the taxation system in the United Kingdom.  The second article in the series was intended to consider changes to Capital Gains Tax, Inheritance Tax, Residency and Domicile and Administration.  However, because of the sheer volume of the article I have split the series into 3 articles.  I have also decided to write a separate article on tax administration as the new regime will affect students, qualified accountants and practitioners alike.