Summer Reading

Management and Cost Accounting by Colin Dury has lots of different editions and is
widely used on university accounting courses
tends to have questions in £s

Seconded. I got a lot of use out of that one. It does have some fairly advanced stuff in it: it saw me through all three years of uni as well as the technician stage of the AAT. There is also a supplementary students guide with more practice questions and answers.

Frank Wood's Business Accounting 1 & 2 was also very useful and often appears in public libraries. Volume 2 has extensive sections on group accounts and company accounts (for Drafting Financial Statements), as well as budgeting and standard costing (for Management Accounting).

A Students Guide to IFRS by Clare Finch helped me through DFS and subsequent financial accounting exams. That one is more of a revision guide than a source for tuition though, and I've never seen it in a library.

For tax, I found the Osborne Books AAT tax unit textbooks more than sufficient. Taxation policy and practice by Andy Lymer and Lynne Oats is also good, but lingers in economic theory a little too long and I didn't start using that one until university. Just remember to get the tax books for the correct Finance Act for your exams.

If you do find yourself in a university library, take a look for Financial Accounting and Reporting by Barry and Jamie Elliot. It is a little more advanced than you'll need for DFS though. Curiously, if you're the kind of person who likes to read around so they understand more about why they're doing what they're doing, Advanced Financial Accounting by Richard Lewis and David Pendrill may be worth a read. Don't let the title put you off!

For Management Accounting in a university library, you'll probably still find lots of Colin Drury's books. Other names to look out for are Charles Horngren and Alnoor Bhimani. Or if you're really keen on Management Accounting, Anthony Puxty or David Otley.

Have a poke around charity shops. There are a lot of students right now getting rid of their degree-level books: some might be worth picking up.

A-Vic wrote: »

Did i mention how good it feels to be posting in the diploma/tech threads

Sniff, my aren't we all grown up now, off to the big school now, with all the other big children. Hope you won't forget the rest of us, left behind. :001_tt2:
Best of luck and soon it will be us that will be asking you for advise on how to do the work.:thumbup:

A-Vic wrote: »

Hi all

Am about to embark on diploma in september but would like to start getting my books now, however am wary about getting them incase rules change i cant afford to have to buy all new books any ideas would be great

Did i mention how good it feels to be posting in the diploma/tech threads

welcome to the tech forum !!!!

I'd advise you to take a look at Steve Collings IFRS summaries for your DFS. They do cover every IFRS but the price is very reasonable for a revision tool.

I think it is still on sale for a reduced price on his website.

Julia (BPP)

A-Vic wrote: »

Am hopefully completing units

33 - Management accounting
11 - Drafing Financial Statements
18 - Preparing business taxation computations
19 - Preparing personal taxation computations

I think they will be the units i will be studying - i didn't include unit 10 as i have an overload of information for this.

Thanks


Vic

Hi A-Vic

I am in a similar position, waiting for FRA results(by the way has anyone "officially" answered this paper?) and due to start Technician in September.
My college tutor gave me Osborne books Managing Performance & Resources which covers Units 8&9 or unit 33 and the business and personal taxation books from both Osborne and BPP. He did stress though that the tax books are only good for exams to be sat in December 2009 and would not be any good for use if sitting tax exams in June 2010. Check when you will be put in for your tax exams and make sure you get your tax books for exams in that period.

A-Vic wrote: »

Thanks julia i was thinking about that too but hopfully if he does his seminar again this year in manchester i hope to go ive heard its great and very imformational :001_smile:

Hi A-Vic,

I'm quite impressed with your forward planning!

I will be running some revision days in Manchester for the December sittings as well as running other days throughout the country. I will confirm the dates for these after the results have been released and students know what they are going to be sitting in December (though I have got a couple of dates pencilled in to team up with Sandy Hood). Again we'll post details up after the results release.

Julia, thank you for the recommendation! :thumbup1: My book is still on sale on AccountancyStudents and is still discounted until the paperbacks are published.

Kind regards

Steve

i am going to try and get to one of steve's days aswell this year - but i need to book flights and hotel etc.

once you now the days steve, can you email me them, so i can start to make plans.

Tracy

manchester would be good as i have family there too

Tracy