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Acca books in universities/libraries

  • 06-03-2012 11:07am
    #1
    pog it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭


    Had a look at the UCD catalogue and seems like there is a random selection of acca books in the library there, and some of them are oldish texts. Does anyone know if there is any library where you can access newer versions to prepare for the acca exams?


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  • #2
    ScaldyB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭ScaldyB


    AFAIK The ACCA syllabus was radically over hauled in 2007 so I'd say anything prior to that is of limited use.

    There was a smaller set of changes in June 2011 and according to the lecturers in college the changes for some subjects were more significant than others. In some case topics were removed so you'd waste time studying them and in others new were topics added so an old text wouldn't cover them. EG 'Quality' was removed from P3 and is now part of P5.......fun, fun, fun!

    Some past paper questions are now irrelevant too but the ACCA still publishes the full paper! They went through all that for us in college, so we were able to just cross them out which was very satisfying!

    As for Tax, well that changes regularly so avoid old textbooks there altogether. You'll often hear people advising to only do tax in June. That way, if you fail, then the syllabus will not have changed for December.


  • #3
    pog it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭pog it


    I appreciate the reply Scaldy. I'm really just trying to find out if any of the universities/colleges/libraries have the updated versions available for loan. I'm aware that older text books are pretty useless for the exams.

    That's a great tip re. the tax exam.


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