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CIMA Tips May 09

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P1
Absorption costing and ABC
Process costing
Setting standards
Purposes of budgets
Non-financial performance indicators
Divisionalisation

P2
Investment appraisal with tax and inflation
Linear programming both graphical and simplex
Pricing strategies
Sensitivity via two-way tables
JIT and TQM

P3
Define and identify risks
Evaluate the effectiveness of controls in managing risk and recommend improvements
Best practice governance with regard to internal controls
What makes internal audit effective
Financial risk – options
IM/IS/IT strategies

P4
Smooth implementation of IT projects
Evaluate change processes within the organisation
Evaluate the management of operations
Contemporary thinking in quality management and constructing a plan for the implementation of a quality programme
Evaluate the marketing processes of an organisation and produce a strategic marketing plan for the organisation
The business contexts within which marketing principles can be applied (consumer marketing, business to-business marketing, services marketing, direct marketing, interactive marketing)
HR cycle

P5
Resource/Market approaches to strategy
Porter's 5 Forces
Corporate governance
Stages in the process of project management
Critical path
Leadership
Discipline

P6
Process innovation and BPR linked with value chain
Benchmarking
Ansoff's matrix
Porter's national diamond
Porter's 5 forces
Six dimensions matrix and balanced scorecard

P7
Yield to maturity
Miller orr/baumol cash models
Deferred tax
Indirect sales tax
Intangibles
Income statement, balance sheet and statement of changes in equity including accounting for property,
Plant and equipment

P8
Financial Analysis
Complex Groups
Financial Instruments
Pensions
Substance
IAS & US GAAP

P9
Overseas Investment Appraisal
Capital Rationing
APV
Sources of Finance – Specifically Debt Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions – specifically purchase considerations

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