FAE 2018

nhickey07

By chance, does anyone have a listing of the cases by the main indicators/subject matter? I want to get my notes to cross-ref the different cases as back up. Thanks!

Melon head

Hi
I am repeating FAE elective. I have a C carried forward from last year. What % does that give me going into the exam. Are the lectures mentioning much about this professional competence.?

fishy_fishy

Melon head wrote: »

Hi
I am repeating FAE elective. I have a C carried forward from last year. What % does that give me going into the exam. Are the lectures mentioning much about this professional competence.?

Contact chartered and find out. It depends on your script, not all Cs are getting the same percentage.

Loads about professional competence. It's 20% of the marks for each indicator.
Basically be balanced, ethical, recommend, have structure to your answer, do what's asked of you and get the tone right.

ACAguy

The online solutions recording for STEPS CASE 3 & 4 are online now.

The air date says 24th May & 8th June so it took them that long to get it onto the site today.

mrduffy

Boys and Girls i am repeating audit elective. I am only starting to study now. What are my chances of passing? Any tips or cases i should do would be helpfull i could not look at a book all year now I am worried

ACAguy

Any chance someone could attach the claddagh case solutions yet again IT issues

thefox1982

ACAguy wrote: »

Any chance someone could attach the claddagh case solutions yet again IT issues

sent you them there

thefox1982

mrduffy wrote: »

Boys and Girls i am repeating audit elective. I am only starting to study now. What are my chances of passing? Any tips or cases i should do would be helpfull i could not look at a book all year now I am worried

If you put the work in, you should be ok. I would start the AAAE workbook, there are 25 cases in there and then do the past papers

Patrickclare

Hi, does any one have any tips for the Core? anything would be much appreciated. thanks

Sames87

Would it be a good idea if people just wrote suggestions similar to your post on what they think may come up? And I don’t mean “audit risks” but more specific. I know myself that i was caught out in the mocks as i did not have anything prepared for an “outline system specification” and potentially lost alot of easy marks. Surely we would have the majority of the course covered if everyone posted something that others may have missed.

ACAguy wrote: »

As mentioned by Paul Monaghan budgeting, JIT, TQM and Activity based management are now specifically mentioned on CS for management accounting and he excepts one to be asked

Where are everyone getting notes and material on these specifically the last 3.

CA1994

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to study audit for the CORE? I'm working through CORE papers in the morning and then doing technical areas of each of the super six in the evening - are people just practicing Cap2 papers?

ACASlayer

CA1994 wrote: »

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to study audit for the CORE? I'm working through CORE papers in the morning and then doing technical areas of each of the super six in the evening - are people just practicing Cap2 papers?

Since we’re not sitting CAP 2, no. Don’t be doing CAP 2 papers. There’s more than enough FAE material to keep you going until August 28th.
For CORE Audit, it won’t be too technical. Just cover the basics and you’ll be fine. Know the standards just in case.

fishy_fishy

ACASlayer wrote: »

CA1994 wrote: »

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to study audit for the CORE? I'm working through CORE papers in the morning and then doing technical areas of each of the super six in the evening - are people just practicing Cap2 papers?

Since we’re not sitting CAP 2, no. Don’t be doing CAP 2 papers. There’s more than enough FAE material to keep you going until August 28th.
For CORE Audit, it won’t be too technical. Just cover the basics and you’ll be fine. Know the standards just in case.

To be fair, if you're particularly weak in certain areas the general advice has been to practice CAP2 papers. Not as your maim prep, like if you do a sim, cant do the company valuation, go study CV and practice some CAP2 papers on it

ACASlayer

fishy_fishy wrote: »

ACASlayer wrote: »

CA1994 wrote: »

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to study audit for the CORE? I'm working through CORE papers in the morning and then doing technical areas of each of the super six in the evening - are people just practicing Cap2 papers?

Since we’re not sitting CAP 2, no. Don’t be doing CAP 2 papers. There’s more than enough FAE material to keep you going until August 28th.
For CORE Audit, it won’t be too technical. Just cover the basics and you’ll be fine. Know the standards just in case.

To be fair, if you're particularly weak in certain areas the general advice has been to practice CAP2 papers. Not as your maim prep, like if you do a sim, cant do the company valuation, go study CV and practice some CAP2 papers on it

Fair to do it a different way.

thefox1982

fishy_fishy wrote: »

To be fair, if you're particularly weak in certain areas the general advice has been to practice CAP2 papers. Not as your maim prep, like if you do a sim, cant do the company valuation, go study CV and practice some CAP2 papers on it

I would agree with you there fishy_fishy. CAP 2 would have more in depth calculations that would have to be done in your example of CV, once you can do them you are sorted.

In relation to core audit, ACASlayer is right, once you know the basics and the standards, you should be fine. The main thing is know the new layout of the audit report and what/how an issue can affect the report. There is no harm to practise one or two CAP2 papers if that helps.

Mckay66

In terms of business leadership, how would you go about studying this? As in is it a waste of time to watch the lectures or are did people find them useful? Or should I read the textbook?

GoldFour4

Mckay66 wrote: »

In terms of business leadership, how would you go about studying this? As in is it a waste of time to watch the lectures or are did people find them useful? Or should I read the textbook?

I've read a few chapters of the textbook and found it good. Has loads of real life examples. I think for BL its very much a case of knowing the different models to apply in analysing a company's strategy/environment etc and just practicing loads of questions and seeing what kind of answers they are looking for.

shanmo

McGaggs wrote:

I attached it to a post. Maybe 5 posts back up the page.

Ya I see the solution but not the question for it. I'd like to see the q please? Thanks.

shanmo

nhickey07 wrote:

By chance, does anyone have a listing of the cases by the main indicators/subject matter? I want to get my notes to cross-ref the different cases as back up. Thanks!

Id be interested in something like this too actually.

shanmo

Anybody know when the last steps case goes up? Thanks.

Mckay66

Where are people now in terms of study, have you done many of the cases? How are you finding them?

shanmo

thefox1982 wrote:

In relation to core audit, ACASlayer is right, once you know the basics and the standards, you should be fine. The main thing is know the new layout of the audit report and what/how an issue can affect the report. There is no harm to practise one or two CAP2 papers if that helps.

New audit report? Sorry I've completely neglected audit. What am I missing? Thanks.

thefox1982

shanmo wrote: »

New audit report? Sorry I've completely neglected audit. What am I missing? Thanks.

It is more so the layout of the report and there is another paragraph in relation to the companies act. If you look up TA 02/2017 Guidance on the new ISAs (Ireland) Auditing Standards issued by the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority. It should all be in there.

shanmo

thefox1982 wrote:

It is more so the layout of the report and there is another paragraph in relation to the companies act. If you look up TA 02/2017 Guidance on the new ISAs (Ireland) Auditing Standards issued by the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority. It should all be in there.

Ah. Thanks.

Monet321

Mckay66 wrote: »

Where are people now in terms of study, have you done many of the cases? How are you finding them?

Have all my folders made out. 1 for elective (APM), 1 for FR (made it for the AAFRP and updated it for remaining standards) and 1 for remaining areas (Audit, Tax and cheat sheets). APM covers a lot of MA, BL and finance and then cheat sheets fill in the gaps.

I'm doing cases in the morning and notes in the evening (revising notes or doing FR or tax questions). Going through all the ICD questions now using shorthand answers and then will move onto mock papers and past exam papers for past few years (not going doing past mock or exam papers that are over 3 years old). Will do the past exam papers out long hand about a week before the exam to get timing right.

Mckay66

In relation to the WWorkwear question from the Finn day- in particular the ABM indicator, just out of curiosity did anyone attempt this in a different way from the solution?

Olliewaterford

I am going through the self study cases but they seem to be mostly Business Leadership, any idea where there is cases with more FR in them apart from the ICD and past papers.

hmcf95

Olliewaterford wrote: »

I am going through the self study cases but they seem to be mostly Business Leadership, any idea where there is cases with more FR in them apart from the ICD and past papers.

Derry cotter case book and then the other case book by John? There would be about 40 in total between the two , if not more

CAIgirl

Is there any life cycle costing notes or questions ?

NP2018

hmcf95 wrote: »

Derry cotter case book and then the other case book by John? There would be about 40 in total between the two , if not more

What other case book are you referring to? By John?

hmcf95

NP2018 wrote: »

hmcf95 wrote: »

Derry cotter case book and then the other case book by John? There would be about 40 in total between the two , if not more

What other case book are you referring to? By John?

A white and blue book by John casey & Clare Kearney. Case studies in advanced FR it's called

NP2018

hmcf95 wrote: »

A white and blue book by John casey & Clare Kearney. Case studies in advanced FR it's called

Thanks for the reply, and the reminder about this book! I had forgotten I had it!

hmcf95

NP2018 wrote: »

hmcf95 wrote: »

A white and blue book by John casey & Clare Kearney. Case studies in advanced FR it's called

Thanks for the reply, and the reminder about this book! I had forgotten I had it!

Haha yeah sorry, someone informed me that its a cap2 book.. I didn't realise lol I didn't use it last year, but it's decent enough for this year , they are just very long and take ages to get through. cotter book is better

ACAguy

Hi everyone just letting you know that I have created a WhatsApp group this evening as I had interested from some people and there was a general agreement that boards was hard to follow and people were asking the same questions. Send me a message with your number to be added. I think it will be very helpful for the next 6 weeks and I don’t think people have to worry about constantly getting messages as WhatsApp groups can be muted thanks

cgal17

shanmo wrote: »

Anybody know when the last steps case goes up? Thanks.

Solution for last steps case is out the 27th of July it said on the email.

thefox1982

Does anyone have a copy of the Tribune steps case? It was suppose to be put up on the 13th July

GoldFour4

thefox1982 wrote: »

Does anyone have a copy of the Tribune steps case? It was suppose to be put up on the 13th July

It should be in the steps folder if you download it again

acawarrior

Does anyone have a past paper analysis that shows the topics that came up in previous years by indicator? Possibly for core and audit elective? Thanks.

Hightower92

Hi, just wondering what tables I should be bringing into the exams? (ie. discount tables, etc)

The J Stands for Jay

Hightower92 wrote: »

Hi, just wondering what tables I should be bringing into the exams? (ie. discount tables, etc)

I always bring the Finance tables from the CAP1 exam. It has formulae on it too which can be handier than looking in my notes.

Hightower92

McGaggs wrote: »

I always bring the Finance tables from the CAP1 exam. It has formulae on it too which can be handier than looking in my notes.

Thanks. I didn’t do CAP1 so is there any chance you could post them here? No worries if not

The J Stands for Jay

Hightower92 wrote: »

Thanks. I didn’t do CAP1 so is there any chance you could post them here? No worries if not

It's on the website under CAP1 essential documents. I don't think you need to be logged in to access it.

https://www.charteredaccountants.ie/docs/default-source/Students/201718/cap1/subject-materials/cap1-finance-mock-2018-tables-and-formulae.pdf?sfvrsn=4

fishy_fishy

Don't forget all the tax reference material

OttoPilot

Anyone know when mock results are due?

Tgt16

OttoPilot wrote: »

Anyone know when mock results are due?

Monday 30th July I think

FiMG

ACAguy wrote: »

Hi everyone just letting you know that I have created a WhatsApp group this evening as I had interested from some people and there was a general agreement that boards was hard to follow and people were asking the same questions. Send me a message with your number to be added. I think it will be very helpful for the next 6 weeks and I don’t think people have to worry about constantly getting messages as WhatsApp groups can be muted thanks

Hello, I tried to message you about the Whatsapp group but it is saying your mailbox is full so you cant receive messages. Can you contact me when you get a chance please? Thanks

Bartek7

Guys any idea when will the mock results be released?

Tgt16

Bartek7 wrote: »

Guys any idea when will the mock results be released?

Apparently tomorrow now, should get scripts delivered in post then

Bartek7

Did you get an email or something?

Tgt16

Bartek7 wrote: »

Did you get an email or something?

A few people have emailed and that’s what they said