Key Notes in Preparing and Passing Your Exams with Ease…
Timothy Here, Every person is born with a particular potential which is unique to him. People are of different types and not all of them are brilliant students. Many work hard to get good marks, while others don’t and yet manage to score well during examinations. There are also students who study hard but…
How to Pass Your Next Professional Exams
Timothy Here, Passing your ICAN or any other professional exam is the common basic requirement for anyone to earn the status of a professional qualification. However, the pass rate of most professional exams can sometimes discourage students. For example, CIMA announced 42% fail rate for their strategic level papers in May 2014. In June 2016,…
Time Management Strategies for Passing your Exams
Timothy Here, When writing an exam, time seems to fall short in life. You have to rush to attend the lectures, compromise on their rest time to prepare notes, and stay awake in the night to complete any assignment. In simpler words, you are always in a race against time. While you are juggling…
A Brief Interview with a 17years Experienced Examiner
Timothy Here, “Thought without practice is empty; and action without thought is blind.” Kwame Nkrumah Recently, in a seminar I attended at Airport Hotel, Ikeja, precisely on the launching of the new ICAN syllabus. I met a former examiner who helped me out with a very crucial disturbing question although he did not give…
How to keep your Exam goals Simple
Timothy Here, The simplest moves are the best…Napoleon Bonaparte To be Simple is to be Great…Ralph Waldo Emerson The more clear and concise your plans are, the easier it is to implement and the less that can go wrong the way. In fact, the phrase “keep it simple and stupid!” has now worked its way…
How to be 30% More Productive and Pass Your Exams.
Timothy Here, As a peak performer, I started to experience lots of stress, low output in my work and an excruciating pain in my back, so, I went to the hospital for checkup, after the test, the doctor found out that I don’t rest too well. But, I told the doctor that I always sleep…
Strategy is a Key To Your Exam Success
Timothy Here, “The best of all is not to win every battle by force. The best of all is to make the enemy yield without fighting. So the highest of all military principles is to overcome the enemy by Strategy” In 216 B. C, the Carthaginian general Hannibal encountered 72,000 Romans at a place called…
Examiner’s Reporting on Financial Reporting
The aims of Financial Reporting are to develop knowledge and skills in understanding and applying accounting standards and the conceptual and regulatory frameworks in the preparation of financial statements of single and group entities. The analysis and interpretation of the operating performance and financial position of financial statements will also be tested. The exam also forms…
Examiner’s Report Management, Governance and Ethics
Management Governance and Ethics is a key paper in the ICAN Skill level. It is an exciting, challenging, and innovative paper that aims to enrich students’ understanding of a number of important issues as they prepare to take their place as members of the professional accounting community. In terms of syllabus content, these themes are…
Examiners Report on Performance Management
The aim of the Performance Management exam is to develop knowledge and particularly skills in the application of management accounting techniques to quantitative and qualitative information for planning, decision making, performance evaluation, and control. Performance Management relation to Management information Relationship between Management Information and Performance Management exams The syllabus for Performance Management, builds on the knowledge…