Tax... we shall see how it goes.

Well Portfolio Theory & Investment Valuation and Risk Analysis  & Modelling... what is the difference? Both are complementary. Manage a portfolio and you need some risk analyst team...

First lesson has some overlap in utility theory, indifference curves...

Actually Financial Economics has some of that as well. -Risk aversion, Arbitrage, portfolio selection, risk management...
First part of Risk Analysis has some statistics in it.


F.Economics is very tempting. Obviously AS students are going to take that.as part of CT8 exemption.


F.Acc 2... Try your best. F.Acc was so bad... Group accounts are not going to be any better.

I think I failed all the modules. Too bad. Remembering Law and Assurance didn't go so well. FE was unexpected. Others... were no better. I just hope Term 2 will be better.

Really afraid of F.Acc 2 with all that group accounts and 'consolidated' FS.
Tax looks ok... As long as you know how to calculate income tax, corporation tax, NIC, CGT, non taxable items...


I just looked at the Contingencies past paper and just realised that mortality tables existed. Eg PMA92, PFA92C20, AM92 Ultimate...
Survival probabilities and expected lifetime
So cool.

Deep trouble now... Barely remembering anything.

FE: I am trying to sit with the book and remember all the material ( not recommended)


F.Acc: Too hard... No idea how to do at all. Cash flow -_-

Revision is so bad... Progress for each module in ( )
No idea how to do the past exam questions...

F.Acc... No clue at all  (5%)

Assurance... There are so many things to learn. Even the smallest details... and they are not the most intuitive (8%)

Law... Same as above (8%)

M.Acc... marginally better, only for calculations but not the theory part (15%)

FE... Still trying to remember the content. (8%)




 Number in % means mastery of the module. Assuming law has 8 topics, Complete knowledge of a topic will be 12.5%. Right now... Maybe a little bit about partnerships, company, finance. Just did insolvency yesterday- can't remember much.


By the looks of it, current progress will surely mean a fail...
Also, I don't understand why we have 5 modules each term...
Law + Assurance crazy combination
F.Acc---- worst one this year. Not a single clue what is happening. M.Acc was close.

FE... not bad. I really looked forward to this, but now I just have to learn all the content, formulae and examples. Not easy, especially since there are 4 other modules.


The plan is revise all modules up to the final week, somehow preserving all that knowledge. Then focus on FE (60%) M.Acc(30%) and Law(10%) in the final week. After FE,  immediately start M.Acc, Law and F.Acc.

Of course after F.Acc, those 2+ days are crucial because AS is the last one and relatively unfamiliar at this stage.
 Please help ... FE is in exactly 2 weeks time.
Merry Christmas

Well I just heard from one of my classmates that M.Acc in year 1 was so easy/easiest. What? Am I doing it wrong? Year 2 M.Acc is similar.

 Personally, I found it to be the most confusing subject ever... Year 1 M.Acc was... so lost.

I just took a look at F.Acc multiple choice questions and haven't the faintest idea how to start.

F.Acc class on PPE and tangible non current assets was so bad. The revaluation one...
No idea at all.

Never felt so confused, ever since early this year in M.Acc allocation, apportioning and absoprtion  overheads.
This time, it's the process costing production report- Opening work in progress, started into production, ending work in progress, equivalent units, cost reconciliation...

It was so bad. It's too mind-boggling.

Well in terms of exam marks, it is:
 F.I>Stats.>Econ>M.Acc
Surprisingly...

First 3 are very close.

But in terms of overall,
Stats>Econ>F.I>M.Acc




I'll just list a few favourite modules: Finance, Business Law, Stats, Econ, F.I-financial part...
VBA is quite interesting, also very rewarding. Prof skills--- what can I say?
F/M Accounting- I'm using the holidays to become more interested and maybe learn a bit more.
Eg: Statement of changes in equity and comprehensive income...


Let's see---  effort required for this term: Econ definitely---for the long answer part. MCQ is very similar.
Stats... not too bad- just learn past papers.(part of exam was similar to last year's IFRM maths module)-the hypothesis test on matched pairs.
F.I... learning the corporate gov. part--- didn't go so well for me. Finance part was fine. Result was surprising. I thought I needed a resit.
M.Acc... probably needed the most effort for long answers, but the questions are so unexpected... Remembering so much didn't really pay off.



Overall review of 1st year: Modules are not particularly difficult. It's not L100, there is no Maths, don't worry. There is no need to worry about differential equations, proofs, matrices, eigenvectors, linear algebra.
I thought I would fail coursework in the beginning, but it didn't happen. (well it almost did...)