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P4 - Advanced Financial Management Exam

Learn about the structure, content, and tips for the P4 exam in Advanced Financial Management. This paper focuses on financing decisions, risk management, valuation, corporate reconstruction, and mergers and acquisitions.

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P4 - Advanced Financial Management Exam

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  1. EXAMINER’S APPROACH: P4, Advanced Financial Management

  2. WHERE THE PAPER FITS?

  3. Professional Level (7 papers in total) Essentials (3 papers) Options (2 from 4 papers) P4 Advanced Financial Management (AFM) P5 Advanced Performance Management (APM) P6 Advanced Taxation (ATX) P7 Advanced Audit and Assurance (AAA) Fundamentals 9 papers in total

  4. LINKS TO OTHER PARTS OF THE QUALIFICATION?

  5. F2 F9 P1

  6. PER

  7. OVERALL CONCEPT?

  8. “To decide we need information, to judge we need wisdom”

  9. BROAD THEMES?

  10. Financing decisions Risk management Valuation Corporate reconstruction Mergers and acquisitions

  11. P4 CONTENT?

  12. Section A Section B Section C Section D Section E Section F Section G

  13. EXAM STRUCTURE?

  14. +15 mins 3 hours

  15. Professional Level – P4 Section A Section B Two questions Two from three questions Case studies Focused scenarios Across syllabus Discrete syllabus areas One discursive question

  16. Professional marks Rule of And

  17. EXAM TIPS

  18. Key tactics

  19. Question practice! Time management! Application of knowledge!

  20. EXAM PITFALLS

  21. Irrelevant information! Bullet lists! Disorganised approach!

  22. Exam Review Board Examiners’ reports

  23. TO CONCLUDE

  24. Read! Understand! Answer!

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