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ACCA exam results are naff!
The ACCA’s Final Admitting Exams – the optional papers – are becoming a massive hurdle to students. The latest exam results show that students sitting the core P1, P2 and P3 papers are doing well (comparatively). ... [More»]

PQ magazine Awards Launch
Do you deserve a PQ magazine award? They will make your CV shine in these tough times. So come on, get the red-carpet treatment at the 2011 awards. ... [More»]

Happy CIPFA sitters
CIPFA is very happy with the latest exam results. In total some 1,395 students took 2,335 individual papers, and the pass rate was 70%. The stand-out papers were Audit and Assurance and Governance and Public Policy where pass rates for the papers were 89% and 87% respectively. ... [More»]

Auditors under attack again
More damning evidence about the poor standard of auditing has come from the Audit Inspection Unit for the Professional Oversight Body. The AIU, the profession’s watchdog, has said that not enough audits it looked at met the basic standards required. ... [More»]

Home working
It was widely reported recently that a rogue trader was banned from working in finance after he manipulated the world oil market following a weekend of golf (on company business) and alcohol. ... [More»]

Student convicted
An accountancy student with a gambling addiction, Jayna Patel, was recently sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years after she admitted six counts of fraud totally £21,129. ... [More»]

AATs pay £100 more
Leading AAT tutors are asking PQ magazine why the AAT doesn’t appear to be passed on the savings they have made from the introduction of the new AAT exams. ... [More»]

The IT crowd
The Scottish Institute is trying to push the barriers about exam delivery. In May last year it ran a pilot allowing TPE students to use their own laptops to sit the exams. ... [More»]

Make ethics count
The financial crisis was made worse by ethical failings, says an ACCA report. ... [More»]

Taxes is fun,fun fun
So if you could tax anything you hated what would it be? ... [More»]

GFP awards
Are you a PQ of the Year? PQ magazine is again sponsoring the Government Finance Profession’s awards, which take place in November in Birmingham. ... [More»]